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East African knowledge certainly not heading north (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

kenyan

'east african' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'knowledge certainly not heading north' is the wordplay.
'knowledge' becomes 'ken' (ken is a kind of knowledge).
'certainly not' becomes 'nay' (archaic form of 'no').
'heading north' says the letters should be written backwards (in a down clue, letters travel north).
'nay' written backwards gives 'yan'.
'ken'+'yan'='KENYAN'

(Other definitions for kenyan that I've seen before include "Native of Nairobi, say" , "Person from Nairobi, say" , "From Mombasa, for example" , "Native of Nairobi, perhaps" , "Commonwealth citizen" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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