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Uhuru to pay 200-year-old debt to Narok village family

Ole Gilisho family at Ng'oswani in Narok West Sub County. The family will receive bride price for its daughter Mosana who is President Uhuru Kenyatta's great grandmother. PHOTO:ROBERT KIPLAGAT

In most African communities, paying bride price is mandatory, regardless of the time it takes for the debt to be paid.

That is the reason Uhuru Kenyatta’s family is planning to pay the family of  his father's grandmother, identified as Mosana, a visit in Narok to settle her bride price after more than two centuries.

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