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Hair-raising crime fighter tales

IT'S unclear at first: are we reading a true-crime novel, or are we on Twitter?

“The 45-yr-old dad, a local Jua Kali artisan, had gone to his son’s house to enquire on his habitual absenteeism from school,” the script begins, using a Swahili term for someone who works in the sun.

He barges into his 21-year-old son’s room, “only to find him enjoying a romantic moment

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