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Tale of the last nomad

By TED MALANDA

KENYA: On a good evening, when my grandfather Ibrahim, son of the king’s bodyguard, nephew of the legendary Wanga fighting army general Kongoti, scion of skinny warriors, had fortified his belly with fermented brew, he would take to singing the fiery war songs of his ancestors.

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