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A freedom fighter’s reaction to our love for English soccer

By By ANIL BAKARI | Sep. 9, 2013

By ANIL BAKARI

If Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, the Mau Mau hero, were to wake up today from his grave, and visit some of the bars in Nairobi where live screening of English Premier League games takes place, he would be furious.

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