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The birthing of a new nation can be painful. Not even modulated debates in Lancaster and Rome conference halls could yield peace to a country that was just about to taste freedom after seven decades of servitude.
These were the makings of a nightmare that has lasted more than a lifetime. When the officials of the Northern Province Peoples Progressive Party (NPPP), whose clarion call was "Secession Now" met Kenya's last governor, Malcom MacDonald in 1962, their mission was clear. Self-determination.
The residents of Northern Kenya Frontier District (NFD) were determined to join the larger Somalia where they had an identity of language and religion rejecting the prospect of being minorities in a new Kenya when it got independence.
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