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Why Ngugi and our 'conservative' writers are off the mark on Kenya's tribalism

NAIROBI: This is factual: I was in Class Eight at a rural primary school called Oneno-Nam in 1992. This was in Muhoroni Constituency, Kisumu County.

Mid-1991, Kikuyu, Kisii and Luhyia visitors began pouring into our local shopping centre, Songhor, with horrifying tales about what had befallen them elsewhere: robbery, arson, rape and murder. My village was terrified.

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