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Banker’s comical take on Kenya’s betting craze and hypocritical ‘slay queens’

Of Pawns and Players, by Kinyanjui Kombani, published by Oxford University Press

 

Every waking day in Kenya, hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of youths place a bet on the likely outcome of a football match played far away in Europe or elsewhere in the world.

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