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Esther Waitherero was 10 years when her brother Mwai Kibaki was born, and she was at hand to give anecdotes on his early moments.
She looked frail from a distance, but was surprisingly energetic as she went about her daily chores of picking tea on her Gatuyaini village farm. "I still remember the day he was born (November 15, 1931). It was early in the morning before the sun rose. Our mother had woken up early to milk the cows but she could not finish. She went into labour and the boy was born.
"The midwife came and found him already crying. She lifted him up and he was named Mwai, after our mother's brother. His placenta was buried near the gate and then women celebrated with five ululations for a kahii (a boy)," she narrated, with a surprisingly easy manner for her age, the events that took place that morning at Gatuyaini village, a few kilometres from Othaya town.
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