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The deeper worry behind Kenya's school fires

There have been arson attacks on more than a-hundred schools in Kenya in recent months. Pupils are thought to be to blame for most of the attacks. Are they copying the kind of political violence they have seen modelled by adults? Nancy Kacungira in Nairobi explains.
Photo: A pupil at a secondary school in Kenya tries to salvage personal effects after pulling them out of a smouldering dormitory in Kisili county.
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