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How Koitalel's death gave birth to Kericho, tea estates

Workers pick tea using a harvesting machine at a farm in Kericho. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard]

Kericho, the beautiful land of lush well-manicured tea bushes has over the ages witnessed more than its fair share of betrayal and treachery.

Mesmerised by its beauty, men of means and power have since the dawn of westernisation plotted to own a piece of this green land at the exclusion of their peers leading to bitter conflicts.

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