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Inside fresh push by Kenyan tech startups to rival Silicon Valley

President William Ruto with US Ambassador Meg Whitman and Prosper Africa Coordinator British A. Robinson during the 2023 US-Kenya business roadshow in San Fransisco, California. [PCS]

Kenyan innovators have long vied to establish themselves as worthy rivals to Silicon Valley - a global centre of technological innovation located in the South San Francisco Bay Area of California.

The area was named after the primary material found in computer microprocessors.

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