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Who are you calling natives, Mr Jakes?

BY OYUNGA PALA

Many Kenyans were irked after American Bishop T.D Jakes used the N-word in a sermon in Dallas, USA. The clip that went viral was drawn from a section of a sermon where Jakes criticises the materialistic lifestyle of the pastors in a new reality hit series ‘The Preachers of L.A” which he dismissed as junk TV. To distance himself from the hyped cast of prosperity pastors, Bishop T.D Jakes emphasised that “The natives all over Kenya drink water because of this ministry. And the hospital in Nairobi survives because of this ministry”.

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