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Turkana blind carpenter who ‘sees’ with his mind

Wilson Namuton (left) at work. The blind man has been a carpenter for 35 years. [Bakari Ang'ela, Standard]

His hands move skillfully. At his workplace, Wilson Namuton is always busy; measuring the length of a piece of timber, sawing or smoothening the same, and like all carpenters do, hammering nails into wood.

Looking at the lanky man bending over his work table, it is not hard to tell that he has a special attachment to wood.

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