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City paupers who play king in the village

Many Nairobians are haughty, vain and patronising when they visit the village, but are sly operatives who barely survive in a hostile city, writes JOHN KARIUKI

of Nairobians & their strange ways

Let’s face it; a small dose of real or faked flamboyance opens doors. And if ostentation is the hottest selling social commodity in Kenya today, the largest concentration of pretentious people reside in Nairobi.

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