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Stanley Mutuma.

Stanley Mutuma on his specialised computer for the visually impaired. PHOTO | COURTESY

By  RUPI MANGAT

August 7, 1998 started as an ordinary day for 16-year-old Stanley Mutuma. At about 10.30am, he was seated in a matatu on Haile Selassie Road by the US embassy in Nairobi, headed to the Kenyatta International Conference Centre for the annual school drama festival. He expected to be there in 10 minutes.

But then suddenly his world exploded.

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