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The Kenyan editor who ‘massacres’ stories for a living

Back in his home country, the expatriate was, perhaps, a writer of cheekily satirical articles. When submitting his writing to the editor, the liberal expatriate would feel that he had fulfilled his responsibility and that the editor would, likewise, now do his job and not hack the article to death or stick above it a headline reading I, The Writer, Am a Fascist Fool.

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