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Rural Kenya goes digital as farmers sell cattle, potatoes

"Good bull in its adolescent stages," reads an ad on one of the largest online classified sites in the country.

Alongside a price tag of Sh20,000, the ad carries a photo of a shiny black and white bull slurping up its meal. Slightly iffy grammar and price notwithstanding, this is merely the tip of the iceberg — the ad from a farmer in Eldoret shows rural Kenya is going digital.

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