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If you can't make poor people rich, eat them

A woman crushing stones at a quarry in Jaribuni, Kilifi County. [Maureen Ongala, Standard]

Season's Greetings from the Land of the Bold and the Beautiful. Emanyulia was the place to be in the ended festive season. Leafy, serene and salubrious.

Above all, it's my peaceful and indomitable repository of world literature. I have now returned to noisy necessity. The City of Nairobi. Sirens, screeching brakes and rude motorists.

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