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How we got here: The story of handshake

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga when they shook hands outside Harambee house.

March 9, 2018, will go down in Kenya's history books as one of many defining moments when the country witnessed an unexpected event.

On this day, on the steps of Harambee House, the building that houses the President's office along Harambee Avenue in Nairobi, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga shook hands.

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