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Why put up shows just for visitors?

Bricks on a dug up median of Uhuru Highway which is being spruced up ahead of Barack Obama’s visit. [Photo: Tabitha Otwori/ Standard]

I was working and living in Dar es Salaam in 2008 when the then most powerful man on earth, George Walker Bush, visited.

As usual, the marines and FBI took over the city, electronically jamming phone signals and all.

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