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Fri 01 Jan 2008Anger turns to violence as Kenya's slums smoulderJennifer Titus went to choir practice yesterday as she does on a Thursday morning. Thirty minutes later she was on her knees begging for her life, as a mob set her church alight around her."I had to plead with them to let me out," she said, as the roof of Kibera's Africa Inland Church billowed smoke deep in the heart of the slum.