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Clash of culture versus modernity: Changing Mombasa skyline

High-rise buildings continue to come up in the island Port City of Mombasa, completely changing the original face. [Robert Menza, Standard]

For Robert Alain, a Kenyan of Seychellois origin, Mombasa's skyline is changing rapidly. "In a span of ten years, there has been considerable change in Majengo, where I grew up in the early seventies," Lain said.

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