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Why 2020 is the year of shock, awe and even great promise

Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital CEO Enock Ondari (left) shows Governor James Ongwae some of the fully furnished Covid-19 isolation rooms. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

One of my hobbies is talking to elderly men and women who lived through the colonial period into the uhuru era.

Their experiences make textbooks and history professors pale into insignificance. They sang ‘God save the Queen’ before ‘Oh God of all creation’.

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