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Ghost country: How faceless workers gobble up billions

'ghost worker'

One calm afternoon, as Peter and his four friends settled for what had become a routine pastime of chewing miraa, a car stopped by their open-air joint in Kaloleni Estate, Nairobi.

A man and a woman stepped out of the car and approached them.

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