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After a decade in Norway, Covid sent me back home

Donnah Obera, the brains behind Curvy Curves pageant.

As the Norwegian government sent the country's capital, Oslo, to another lockdown last Monday, Donnah Obera, a music promoter based there, was at the airport boarding a flight back to Kenya.

A single day’s delay would probably mean she wouldn’t get a chance to leave Oslo. As the plane pierced through the skies, she felt a sense of relief, disrupted by a nagging sense of guilt and unease.

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