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Insult missiles and white solders' escapes in World Wars

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First World War artefacts at Sarova Hotel in Taita Taveta during the commemoration of the war in November 2018.[Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

When Kenya and Tanzania were sucked into a world war, its indigenous peoples could not understand the representatives of the combatants in East Africa had a queer way of squaring out their differences.

Apparently, when the Germans were routed out of Kenya's Namanga town by the British soldiers, their soldiers surrendered their big guns but used a more lethal arsenal; the mouth.

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