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Mbugi Shop at Kithimu Market in Embu County. My dad once owned the shop. [XN Iraki]
Embu County holds a special place in my family's history. Madaraka came when my parents lived there. They had been there since 1937.
My mother was the first girl to be born at the then Embu provincial hospital in 1937, the year my father arrived in Embu. They married in the middle of the Mau Mau rebellion.
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