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By Tom Odhiambo
"Then, one day, the chiefs voted to put bananas on our flag. They sneaked a banana verse in our evening prayers and ordered that it be said for afternoon tea too. That is how we became a banana republic." These are the opening words of Meja Mwangi’s latest novel, The Big Chiefs, a narrative that testifies to the collapse of a post-colonial African nation-state.
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