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This phenomenon also exists in the environs of Nairobi, Kenya; where locals have observed subterranean fires that often survive rainfall and can be used to choma maize. Naturallay, they are ascribed to some Kenyan (Gikuyu) Lubaale. A version of it is likely responsible for the fires that gut slums like Mathare Valley on a fairly regular basis (Their frequency is almost predictable, and the fires themselves may be due to methane released in natural decomposition of the mounds of trash in or near the slums)
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