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Kenya's middle class must seize national agenda from politicians

Satirist and philosopher Thomas Carlyle once said: “Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand, and you have a political economist.”

In Kenya, everyone who goes into politics becomes an expert in virtually everything, a mheshimiwa par excellence. This unchallenged assumption has made our politicians the most powerful social category.

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