But the crime, the looting, and the other betrayals of societal trust are what often sting the worst, or at least leave the most bitter taste in peoples mouths.
My reward in following this advice has uniformly been that my Welsh hosts would live up to the well-deserved reputation of the Welsh as being among the most verbal and most talkative of all peoples.
Most of the Luhya (the country's second-biggest group, unrelated to the Luo), most of the ten or so Kalenjin-speaking peoples of the Rift Valley, most of Kenya's Muslims and most of Kenya's poor in the vast slums that ring Nairobi backed Mr Odinga.
"In a continent in which most of the memory of peoples is transferred orally through storytelling and can be lost, the people in Timbuktu had a written tradition that is quite rare in Africa, " he said.
The Director-General recalled the importance of the World Heritage Convention as one of the most important and deeply innovative international legal treaties forged to create bonds amongst peoples across the world through the mutual appreciation and preservation of the world's most outstanding cultural heritage, beyond domestic, political or territorial divides.
Most of the time that involved working other peoples' land -- sharecropping.
The most important activities between nations should be between peoples.
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"It's the most direct evidence of farming spreading by migration of peoples that you could hope to find, " said lead author Pontus Skoglund, an Uppsala University graduate student.
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And most of all, I think we all feel here tonight the unique friendship between our peoples.
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The reason for this decline most likely has to do with doubts about the administration's policies and their impact on peoples' lives.
One of the most innovative developments since the last IPCC report in 2007 has been a multiplication of collaborative research efforts involving indigenous peoples and natural and social scientists.
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