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Kibaki's MD job and Karume's free beer that never was

August 1967: Minister for Commerce Mwai Kibaki tours city brewery production department in Nairobi. [File]

The evening was long and dreadful. The looming night promised to be more dreary. A cold dark one-bedroom house in Nairobi West waited for Mwai Kibaki.

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