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Will the high cost of living take us back to the basics?

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A customer shops for maize flour in a supermarket. [Denis Kibuchi, Standard]

Our traditional societies had a solution for all their problems, medical or social.

Any medical ailment had a treatment. Some people reading this might have benefited from such remedies; a good example is mole dung for treating measles.

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