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Tom Mboya’s letters open doors for Kenyans abroad

From left: ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i, former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero and his wife Susan Mboya-Kidero during Tom Mboya’s 50th memorial service at Holy family Basilica in Nairobi, on Friday. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

When the five Mboya children were growing up under the strict guidance of their mother Pamela Mboya who had no qualms spanking or pinching them for truancy, they used to see hundreds of boxes neatly packed in their garage.

In the boxes were hundreds of files, whose significance they did not know but dared not mess around with them lest they taste the wrath of their mother.

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