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The day Kenyans dug out cash to receive first bank

August 1965 marks one of the most peculiar incidents in Kenya’s banking history. This is after Barclays Bank set foot in Lamu Island.

As soon as the bank opened, residents rushed for their spades and started digging out their savings from pits underneath their homes.

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