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Once bustling Gikomba now trades in dead mitumba stock

Traders at Gikomba market going about their business. [Edward Kiplimo/Standard]

Antony Sende is a man of few words. This is unexpected of a trader in Gikomba market.

I find him seated with his back on the makeshift wall separating his stall and that of his neighbour. He stares at the jumbled up pile of clothes on a mat.

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