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Tom Mboya monument adored and desecrated by fanatics

Tom Mboya's monument in Nairobi [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

On July 5, 1969, two men who had known each other since their youth met by chance outside a pharmacy along Government Road, now Moi Avenue, Nairobi.

Barack Obama Sr, father to former US President Barack Obama, had jokingly told Tom Mboya what a bad driver he was by parking his car wrongly and that he could be liable for a fine.

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