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News vendor has seen it all after 50 years on the streets

Walter Odum, a newspaper vendor who has been selling newspapers for fifty years in Kisumu. [Photo by Denish Ochieng/Standard]

At 67, Walter Odum has neither been to journalism school nor visited a media house. But the father of eight can tell you which newspaper headline sold out since he began selling daily papers in 1968.

"July 6, 1969, all newspapers sold out. People sobbed as they read and some tore up the papers immediately after reading them,” he recalls.

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