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Every famine comes a new word and strange deeds

By Michael Ouma

While in Nairobi most of us know ‘bamba’ to refer to the Safaricom airtime denominations of Sh20 and Sh50. Yet in my home village in Ugenya, bamba 80 means something totally different.

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