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Twists and turns that await economy in the new year

A hawker pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with plumps along Thika Super Highway on January 1, 2023. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Unlike the New Year, 2022 was very symmetrical.

But 2023 has a secret that will outdo its non-symmetry. It will be 60 years since Kenya's independence and 128 years after getting some semblance of a nation by becoming a British protectorate.

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