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This is a time to weep for our beloved Kenya

“Weep not child” is the title of the first novel of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, then James Ngugi, that depicts cruel colonial times. It’s a tale of betrayal and conspiracy, hopes and disappointments that ends up in many painful deaths and a final despair note of the main character, as “darkness falls”!

Weep not my Child Kenya! Can we turn this tragic end around and bring real hope for a Kenyan future, steeped in Covid pandemic served with “political sauce”?  

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