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In a show of solidarity, colour, song and energy, over 150 male and female sex workers marched in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya, to mark International Sex Workers Rights Day; a day celebrated on 3 March to highlight the contribution of sex workers all over the world.

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‘We must work from the basis that Kenya is a garment of many colours, which is beautiful because each colour is present. We cannot be one colour because we would be dull. Some colours cannot run over others because we would be ugly.

Nyash almost always had a big smile pasted on his face.

Earlier in this month of February, I had lunch with Nyash in Korogocho ghetto, where he spent most of his life. We had agreed to meet at Othaya, a popular nyama choma (roast meat) restaurant in Korogocho.

It was former Libyan strongman Muammar Gadhafi who, at a meeting of African and Arab leaders in October 2010, warned that Southern Sudan’s independence would spread like a ‘disease…to all of Africa...’ While South Sudan’s secession shook the perceived inviolability of Africa’s colonial boundaries

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