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Why grass never grows at Wagalla

By Boniface Ongeri

The wind blows swiftly, raising a cloud of grey dust and ruffling dry thorn shrubs. Nothing else appears to move at the abandoned Wagalla airstrip, on a sunny morning, the scene of one the most infamous atrocities ever committed against a civilian population in Kenya.

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