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Six ways to spot a Nairobian at the Coast

Mombasa Town

It is the Jamaican crooner, Shinehead, who sung that, I’m an alien; I’m a legal alien, I’m a Jamaican in New York. And so it is with the Nairobian walking down a Mombasa street during the Christmas holiday. You can tell them a mile off.

Nairobians for some reason imagine that the Mombasa heat will cool down to make way for their grand arrival, but wapi!

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