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Truth Without Fear
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Just be you this New Year

Kenya: Because I am a realist, I am not going to delude myself that this year will be any better as far as fashion goes. I have braced myself to inspect a similar parade of cheap shoes and suffer the limited social graces of assuming clods as was the case last year.

The spring in our footsteps is faltering with each passing hour of an endless January. Soon, cleaned-out Nairobians will be roaming the streets in dazed zombie shuffles, clad as if the clothes they are wearing have been thrown on with a pitchfork.

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