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I wanted to write about US ambassador Meg Whitman's impending departure from our shores and beg her to stay because we love her so. This is in keeping with the ethos of one of our founding fathers, Jomo Kenyatta, who pleaded with our former colonial masters: "I want you to stay and farm this country..."
That was in 1961, and few of jungus who have traversed this land have ever departed. I concede this might sound like mysticism-the very element that has been applied by white people to dismiss our cultural sophistication-but it seems there is some truth in the expression: it's easy to venture into our land than it is to depart from it.
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