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Dread and alive: Maintaining dreadlocks is an expensive venture

By Irine Majale | 10yrs ago

Take a walk along Nairobi streets on any given day and you will bump in to several men and women with dreadlocks. Some look absolutely gorgeous but others are plain hideous.

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