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Blend of culture, modernity as 100 initiated

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President William Ruto at the Kalenjin rite of passage ceremony for boys on December 16, 2023, at Karen in Nairobi, where over one hundred boys graduated. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

It was a day to prove traditions and modernity can thrive together.

Fathers came dressed in dark suits, white shirts, red ties and cowboy hats; while their sons, the initiates, wore maroon blazers over black polo necks and trousers.

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