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The Jerusalema dance challenge.[Standard]

Sometime early this year, a 30-plus-year-old Kikuyu song by the title Firirida shot from nowhere to become a sensation. Almost overnight, the song was the subject of multiple dance challenges on Tiktok and had gathered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube, where for years it could barely master a thousand views.

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