My animation character looks like me and features my culture
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I kept an excel sheet of all the times my poetry book was rejected
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Black Blues Brothers: From meeting at a charity to performing for the Queen and Pope
A group of five Kenyan acrobats, Black Blues Brothers, have performed their…
