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What we can learn about hustlers from the remaking of ‘koroga’

Construction site workers loading water, sand, ballast and cememt into a concrete mixer in Embu, Kenya. [Courtesy]

One of the most famous and common occupations  in the past was koroga - which, simply put, involved making concrete using shovels and the right mix of sand, cement and water.

It was sweaty, hard, manual work and was done mostly by young men. While modern youth live their lives online, in the past, they lived on koroga.

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