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The village is no longer the same thanks to devolution

Strategic communications advisor Barrack Muluka at The PCEA Church, Thogoto, 2018. [Beverlyne Musili, Standard]

Welcome to Emanyulia in 2021. It is difficult to define us, more still to describe us. We are perched somewhere between a disorganised small town and a village in revolt. It does not want to remain a village. But it does not, also, know what it wants to become.

If we are a town, we are moving towards the slum. And if we are a village, we could pass for a slum village. Yet we are not alone. That is the Kenyan village today, everywhere. 

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