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October 16, 2025

There’re bars everywhere but no libraries, let’s start reading: Maillu, Mochama urge youth

The youthful generation is yearning for information, as times have shown that everyone needs to be updated to avoid making the mistakes that our forefathers made when they were colonised and made to think that they couldn’t think on their own or make sane decisions. 

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