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No gas affairs: Why ‘chai ya birika kwa jiko’ is still sweeter

It is still sweeter [Photo: Courtesy]

There was the thermos flask reserved for wageni in most Kenyan homes back in the day, and then there was the aluminium birika for the rest of the world.

Electric kettle was not as common as bellybuttons and if your family owned one, it meant your old guy could run for an elective post.

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