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I’m sorry, there should be no place for ‘white elbows’ in our golf

Dismas Indiza makes a swing. [Stafford Ondego]

I have come to believe that tradition is a form of peer pressure from our ancestors. Try as we might, we find ourselves accepting certain things as normal without questioning how they came to be.

Take an example of the “white elbow”: something that the Kenyan mzungu community have learnt to use very effectively to get away from harassment from the police.

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