Special envoy to Mombasa, Kilifi and Sosoni
It takes several hours on a motorbike through the arid bush from County Kilifi to reach the hamlet of Sosoni.
Large baobabs with wide trunks and dry branches sit enthroned, spaced out on the hills.
The Indian Ocean is on the horizon.
In the past, the sea stretched out its arm here through an estuary.
She came there to tickle the roughness of this countryside and the Omani boats took the opportunity to load African slaves captured in Malawi until the beginning of the 20th century.
Edward Muzungu Kiringi, the last guardian of the place, stands on a crutch behind a small house, a cap on his head.
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There are about 10,000 slaves buried under our feet
," he says in the preamble.
As he advances with difficulty on the red ground strewn with creeping grass, his trembling hands point here and there at small stones more or less anchored in the earth.
No name, no inscription, no date.
Hunger erases our memories.
Believe me, when you give birth to a child and it dies because you didn't do the right thing, you put the past aside...
Hamadi Hamisi Supi, resident of tswaka, southern kenya
Saudi state lie
Died from abuse or leprosy…
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