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  • 18 Oct 202614 min readGovernment by Magic Spell: A Somali Story, a Kenyan Cabinet and the Race Rwanda WonIn a Somali short story we read for KCSE, a clan rules a country with a ten-year-old girl, a jinni and a spell that cures citizens of curiosity. The week Rwanda won Formula 1, Kenyans went looking for the spell in our own Cabinet.

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