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It seems Kenya was not meant to be hustler’s nation

Spikes on a city building to stop hustlers from resting. [XN Iraki]

Kenya is now a hustler’s nation with over 80 per cent of the population earning a living from the informal sector. But since becoming a semblance of a nation in 1895, it seems the country was never meant to be a hustlers’ abode.

There is enough evidence from history to the present that seems to suggest that being a hustler in Kenya is a mistake.

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