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Sometimes words mean the opposite of what we imagine

The words “Kanini fingers Duale” popped up, and for quite some time, remained prominently displayed on the bottom of the television screen as I watched news on a local television channel recently. It was much later, as I went through social media, particularly Facebook, that I noticed the discourse those three words had generated. Quite a number of social media users had picked the sentence referenced above and, each to his or her taste, had volunteered their own understanding of it.

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