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Mushrooming African tech cities will only progress at snail's space

Konza Technology City. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Truly, when Shembeteng - that ambitious linguistic start-up that recently caused a considerable stir among our youth - is spoken with just the right gusto and intonation, it sounds more lyrical and serenading than nearly all other languages in Kenya.

That is, before you decode its monotonously simple and predictable cookbook, which basically inserts a bisyllabic construct featuring 't_' and 'mb' into every word!

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