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Big hassle for scribes in days past

The East African Standard newsroom in 1966. 

By Joseph Karimi

When sending this article to the editor, I couldn’t help but marvel at how far we’ve come in improving telecommunications in the country. Click, click. Type, edit, compose, send. That’s how easy it is to send a story anywhere in the world today.

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