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Keeping radiant through turmoil

By Gardy Chacha

Nyota Ndogo with her children

She was born into a cruel world of destitution. Raised by a devoted mother and singing father in a shantytown, amidst abject poverty and complexities of a world where suffering was a ritual. Food was also hard to come by and life starkly stood as a semi-permeable membrane with an unpleasant tendency to sieve faces that make societies.

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