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Like my father before me, I’ve found comfort in yoga

25 January 2025

9:00 AM

25 January 2025

9:00 AM

Malindi, Kenya

In 1967, Tanzania’s socialist rulers seized all my parents’ property – their ranchland, their home and their cattle – and overnight my father saw the fruits of all his labour taken from him. He had no time to dwell on his misfortune, since he had a wife and four children to support, so at the age of 60 he picked himself up and vanished off to work in Somalia.

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