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Forgotten green gold that helped Murang’a elbow Kiambu out of Nairobi

Thika Produce and Traders Supply directors in 1951. These men, now deceased, watered the trees of entrepreneurship long before uhuru. [PHOTO: COURTESY OF JOSEPH KIMURA]

How did entrepreneurs from Murang’a (or Fort Hall) come to dominate Nairobi, elbowing out Kiambu businessmen, who were much closer?

The first suspicion would be politics, but that can’t be — Kiambu was more politically connected and has given us two presidents.

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