Voices from the future: Nyerere, Mboya, Obote and Adde meet over 'chai' in 2065

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Mbinguni Old Town is a strange, but exciting, East African city from the future, that exists in the metaverse, a virtual space. Mbinguni was inspired in real life by Stone Town, the oldest part of Zanzibar City, and Lamu Old Town on Kenya’s coast, the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa.

It is the place where famous, infamous, nearly famous Africans from Heaven, Hell, and all sorts of afterlife mid-houses, go to shop and hang out. It is also visited by the souls of living beings on Earth – mostly on the last weekend of every month.