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When sources felt it was not my turn to eat

Many people have the erroneous assumption that you need to travel outside your country to become a victim of culture shock. It has happened to me many times right here in Kenya, especially in instances when I have interacted with people of different races.

My first memorable experience was in the early 1980s when I struck up a friendship with an American expatriate, Wade Huie who worked for some years as a reporter with a local daily and also wrote the script for the movie Rise and Fall of Idi Amin.

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