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Tormented Kenyans: What Sh1000 could buy 10 years ago now costs Sh1600

Shopping basket at a supermarket. [Courtesy]

When the Central Bank of Kenya unveiled new banknotes in 2019, the image of elephants that had earned the older Sh1,000 note the nickname of ‘Ndovu’ was not as pronounced in the new notes. With the simple change, the Sh1,000 lost its symbolic grandness.  

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