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Teaching women to defend themselves

By By NANJINIA WAMUSWA | Dec. 1, 2013

By NANJINIA WAMUSWA

Philip Erick Otieno started boxing and taekwondo at the age of nine, believing the two sports would give him an edge in pursuing his dream of joining the army.

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