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Hi, my name's David Wolfe and I'm the editor of The Guardian Long Read.

In the final few weeks of the year, we're looking back on some of our favourite pieces of 2024

and we're giving you a little insight into why these are some of our favourite pieces of the year.

So for today's piece I've chosen Nairobi to New York and Back, the loneliness of the

internationally educated elite by Kerry Baraka.

So this article looks at an international jet set about whom there has been surprisingly little

in-depth reporting.

It's the class of young, highly educated Africans who split their time between the US where many of them

study and work and home where they enjoy a rarefied life unavailable to many of their peers.

The article focuses on a group of Kenyan Ivy League alumni who have returned to their home

country for an electronic dance music festival that takes place every new year just a stone's throw from the

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