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After President Uhuru Kenyatta signed the first post-African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) free trade deal with US President Donald Trump, commentators across the continent expressed reservations.
In terms of largest African economies, Kenya is not in the top five, which is historically led by Nigeria. In fact, the West African nation’s GDP is over four times larger than that of our nation. Some Nigerian commentators are bewailing Kenya jumping the queue with the Americans and asking what may have gone wrong in their nation and figuring out if it is connected to President Trump’s recent travel ban extending to their country.
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