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Confessions of Nairobi Women is a collection of thirteen candid true stories told to Joan Thatiah by women living in Nairobi. The stories are as awe-inspiring as they are heart-wrenching.
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In his 802-page book: Selfhood; Divinity of the Clitoris, the retired minister of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) gives a rather revolutionary strategy to clean the Kenyan society of the vice in a country where one in three girls is at risk of the cut.
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PIECE OF MEAT
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