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When a video of a young woman went viral telling former Prime Minister Raila Odinga not to join the Finance Bill demonstrations, that it was okay for him to hang up his protest boots, many Kenyans wondered who she was.
In an interview with Lifestyle on Thursday, Anita Barasa, says, she is 17 years old, was born and bred in Kakamega County and that activism is deeply embedded in her DNA.
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