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Your uniforms gold and blue, your hearts brave!

Kenya's defender Abud Omar Sfantu (left) fights for the ball with Tanzania's forward Thomas Ulimwengu during their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations match at the Stadium in Cairo on June 27, 2019. PHOTO | KHALED DESOUKI |

By  Elsie Eyakuze

Columnist

Somebody’s trying to start some trouble between Kenya and Tanzania and they had better stop it.

I won’t take any malicious mischief on the part of vandals who are trying to bring discord to this our East African House. It is our prerogative to tease each other, that’s what friends do, but that’s where it ends. Teasing.

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