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The place of fig trees in Bukusu burial traditions

Angusu clan elders Ernest Itenya Ichechi and Morrice Angula Ichechi showing fig trees planted on their father's grave at Ebushitsiula village in Ikolomani. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Maurice Ichechi and his brother Ernest Itenya sit pensively on plastic chairs next to their father Raphael Ichechi's freshly covered grave at Bushitsiula village in Ikolomani, Kakamega County.

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