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Fashion, documents to language: Why Kenya is facing an identity crisis

Maasai morans walk out of the bush during a cultural festival at Orkiramat in Mashuuru Sub-county, Kajiado County. [File, Standard]

After more than a century of experiments, one would expect the tapestry clothing Kenya to perfectly cover the seams and the scars, offering a uniform blanket to all and act as a form of a national identity.

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