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	<title>Our Man in America &#187; Joshua Orina</title>
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		<title>Corruption kills a dream: a tribute to Joshua Orina</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout my life in the United States, news of the death of a family member or a friend back home has lost some of its power over me. In the last 13 years I have lost a father, two grandparents, an aunt, four uncles, and five cousins. Then there are the countless friends I grew up with who are no longer alive. One committed suicide because an accident had left him blind, another killed himself because his parents would not approve of the girl he was courting, and the third one hanged himself for as yet undiscovered reasons. On two separate occasions, two friends were killed by speeding cars. A childhood buddy drank himself to death, while several others have fallen victim to that villain whose name my kinfolk are still too ashamed to utter, AIDS. After the tragic loss of so many young lives, of people who as children had shown so much potential both for themselves and for their community, I became numb to the pain – so numb that I could no longer summon tears upon learning that a friend had died. But the news from home last week sent me bawling once again. In fact, as [...]]]></description>
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