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Justina Wamae, has a book that she cherishes - Margaret Thatcher's autobiography. When she bought it in 2013, it cost a then princely sum of Sh3,500, which might as well have been her life savings because she was unemployed and had struggled to find a job at the time.
"It was money that my aunt had given me for a small job I had done for her. I think she gave me Sh5,000. That book! In fact, I don't like Wambui (her three-year-old daughter) touching it so that she doesn't tear it. I treasure it. I always go back to see what she used to say," she says.
Powerful figures like Thatcher inspire her to no end, and she doesn't just read up on historical political figures but is also glued on current local and global news. It showed during the presidential debates.
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