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Slay queens are not a social aberration, or young women gone rogue. They are a product of a series of policy choices, political action, and allocation of national resources by the political class and dominant elite in East Africa and elsewhere in the world. FOTOSEARCH

By  Charles Onyango-Obbo

Columnist

There is one subject I have never reported or written on, and thought I never would – slay queens!

According to the East African Urban Dictionary, slay queens are, “Young and naive girls who apparently do not date broke men.

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