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MY AFRIKA
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           Ajayikehinde Belteshazaar Ametu









           MARSABIT









             The return



             By Chioma Phillips




          Marsabit Calling                   line was either too expensive or not   whatever could fit in the car and
          My husband and I had felt Marsabit   available. But, we prepared anyway.   head for Nairobi. I prayed and I felt
          calling us for some time. We first   Before long, we were just days away   so strongly that God could give us
          visited in 2017 (you can read about   from our journey; suddenly it was as   a loophole within the new require-
          that here) and were so drawn to this   if the world conspired against us. A   ments and that we needed to be
          town on the mountain, bathed in    new lockdown was announced that    ready to use it. As we had already
          cool mists... so when we felt the pull   would prevent us from travelling to   given notice, we simply updated
          again this year, we started to make   Marsabit.                       the owner that based on the latest
          plans. We downsized and got rid                                       announcement we would be leav-
          of anything that would have been   Given the ambiguity in the language   ing a few days earlier than planned.
          a load, bought things that would   of the latest Covid provisions, and   Within two hours, we were packed
          help store things while on the move.   since we had already given no-  and we were in Nairobi by the new
          We had no clue where we would be   tice where we lived, we took the   curfew hours, having dropped one
          staying as everything we found on-  split-second decision to pack up   item off along the way. The whole



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