Kenyan Unrest, Jersey Style

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Located on West Side Avenue, just off a busy intersection, stands Mzalendo One Stop, a multipurpose business that repairs computers, sells large bags of corn flour, stocks DVDs of Nigerian movies, and sends money grams overseas. The attacks, which are spurred on by a complex array of economic, political, and ethnic factors, have often pitted members of Odinga's Luo tribe and other al lied tribes against members of Ribald's Kikuyu tribe, Kenya's largest ethnic group and long a dominant force in business and politics, and its allies (or perceived allies).

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Kenyan Unrest, Jersey Style

If you know where to look as you travel through Jersey City, you can spot the institutions of one of the most vital Kenyan communities in the United States. There's the Mallory Coffee Shop, where Kenyans can order ugali, an oatmeal-like dish, with aside of goat meat and managu, a leafy vegetable. There's the Nyati Lounge and Tropical Grill, a so...

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