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The day Kangema post office operated from a bakery

G.P.O sorting room, Nairobi, 1962. [File, Standard]

When most state corporations were monopolies, Kenyans in various parts of the country had to beg these entities to serve them.

Telephone poles marked the path to a man of substance in rural areas.

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