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Kenya: Folly of looking East and other sad tales

There's an urban myth that 'may you live in interesting times' was a Chinese curse in whose context, interesting meant dangerous or turbulent.

The whole phrase is said to be something of a curse. Myth or otherwise, whoever lobbed this phrase at Kenyans must be laughing all the way to the bank.

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