Kenya's War Of Words


	Kenya's War Of Words

mona

2-15-2008 11:59 AM

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mona says:

Having lived and worked in Nairobi for a couple of years, the developments there - and accounts such as this one - chill me to the bone.

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2-15-2008 6:10 PM

syncopath

like a chameleon, speak the “correct” tongue.

i still hope 4 the day any Human could walk erect & dignified no matter from what part of the kaleidoscope of languages he/she comes from.

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