We have killed our past and are busy killing our future – Francis Imbuga In the land of the distant past, it is reported that a poet seeking to pick the brain of his interlocutors on the nature of human existence is said to have asked, “What are men?” And he watched them grapple with the question, before he made to answer, “They are guests of the grave and travellers that pass.” Such is the fate awaiting all men. But history is replete with examples of men who sought to defy this notion. There lived such a man in Kenya...
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