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In his famous work, 'Things Fall Apart', Chinua Achebe says; "a man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes.
"When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so."
I would have wished this was the reason the organisers of the Sagana State Lodge put up the televised party. The 'eaters' who gave interviews to the media said they were very happy to eat "mchele na nyama" (rice and meat).
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