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Where beasts of burden are accorded ‘state funerals’

From carrying luggage and pulling heavy-laden carts through the roughest of terrains to keeping up with the madness of our urban jungles with whips lashing at their wounded backs and behinds, donkeys are truly the beasts of burden.

Ironically, the same humans for whom donkeys toil have coined the saying Asante ya Punda ni Mateke, meaning beasts of burden are ungrateful. How now! 

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