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Kenya's sad tale of the haves and have-nots

Man, life is tough on these streets. We went from zero to the Finance Act 2018 in record time and it didn’t take much longer for prices to adjust upwards. I once made a lame joke about Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration, and the thought that it would tax the wind if it could.

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