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Echoes from the past: How the bubonic plague affected Kisumu Port

A boat docked at Kisumu port on the shores of Lake Victoria in 1908. [File,Standard]

Even as it roars back to life again, Kisumu port has had its fair share of challenges, key among them being marginalisation of the region and collapse of East African Community in 1977.

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