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Author: Tom Jalio

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Tom Jalio

Tom Jalio is a writer and editor who won the 2014 Babishai Niwe Poetry Award with 'There was once something special here' and was a runner-up in the 2019 Annual Journalism Excellence Awards with 'Hinga’s endgame: Kenya’s first grandmaster'.

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    Seven myths about sex education debunked

    Countries with more sex ed have lower teen pregnancy rates, yet policymakers in Kenya continue to push against it.  Imagine firefighters approaching a burning dormitory and ...
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    A red scar on African poetry: Anatomy of a serial plagiarist

    Just weeks after winning two prestigious awards on his 29th birthday, globally published Kenyan poet Redscar McOdindo was found to have cheated his way to fame ...
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