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Nine-year-old Kenyan boy teaching computer hacks

Elvis Muchiri, 9-year-old who teaches computer hacks on Tiktok. [Dennis Kibuchi, Standard]

In Sunday School, I overhear an unusual conversation between two nine-year-olds. "Do you know what Windows E does?" One of them asks, then goes on to explain. I am interested but cannot quite make out the response, so I decide I will ask the child later on.

The Sunday School teacher had just told them that everyone has unique gifts then went around asking every child what their gift is, and that child had said, without hesitating, "computers", which is what sparked the conversation I had just eavesdropped on.

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