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Of sugar, corruption and dashed hopes

‘Please don’t develop the taste for that sugar which is called corruption’. Pope Francis seemed pretty clued into the ills that ail us this past week. Turning Nairobi into one hopeful, if slightly drenched mass of humanity, it was refreshing to see power and humility come together so effortlessly in one man.

He pulled no punches as he cited the manifestations of poverty as wounds inflicted by minorities as they cling to power and wealth, who selfishly squander while a growing majority is forced to flee to abandoned, filthy and run down peripheries.

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