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Kenya will never afford all our greed

BY KIPKOECH TANUI

I have never met someone who does not like to have more money than he or she already has. Long ago, I learnt the stereotype that if you want to know if a Kikuyu man or woman is dead, just juggle coins in a tin and throw them on the floor. If the eyelid moves, finger twitches or toe curls up, then he or she hasn’t slipped through the doorway to the life hereafter.

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