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        INYANKIRI / INYAARI In those days as a teacher, one day I went to one of the senior classes to teach Biology & something unusual happened. On entering the class & even before the students could even audibly tap the table to accord me the routine greeting, I couldn’t withstand the odour from the class. The odour was superlatively foul; comparable to when a Swarm/Cloud of this grasshopper  above are forcefully crushed together in a small non-ventilated enclosure. On further immediate investigation, I discovered that this awful slightly pungent smell was emanating from what the students referred to as “NEW SWEET IN TOWN”; of which greater percentage of the class were momentarily & adventurously feasting on.   Why any human should accept that foul-smelling so-called “ New-sweet-in-town ” for free, talk more of purchasing it, hitherto, baffles me. But as students, I know it’s what it is. Meanwhile, the arthropod above is called Inyankiri or I...