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The Rev. Philip Tutu hails from a continent that news reports tell us is wracked with poverty, AIDS, malaria, wars, corruption and maniacal despots. But there is another Africa, Tutu says. An Africa very different from the one Americans think they know. Photos: Photo by John Harte Roselyn Mairori collects modest bridal dresses to rent to the poor women in her home country of Kenya who can’t afford to purchase them. Photo by John Harte Roselyn Mairori and her husband, Rev. Stephen Kiptoem Mairori, have a laugh with Sarah Mwamba and Philip Tutu Thursday at the International Christian Ministries office. The Mairoris are from Kenya, Tutu is from Ghana and Mwamba is from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo by John Harte Tutu and a few of his friends are in Bakersfield this week to share the startling revelation that the dark continent isn’t so dark after all. Tutu, a lean, affable Ghanaian — and no relation to South African cleric and...
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