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How Kenyan advertising will get its groove back

By Dominic Murray

Just before nine o’clock news, a television commercial comes on. The advert opens with a celebrated local female musician (let’s call her Celeb) wielding a toilet-cleaning agent as she approaches a house. What follows is one of the "strangest" conversation ever.

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