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Tech giants take the fight for clients to local startups

An aerial view of Nairobi City from Ngara.[Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

More global tech giants are pitching tent in Kenya, sparking a wave of excitement and apprehension in equal measure in the ICT sector.

But this has not come as a surprise. Kenya, East Africa’s biggest economy and regional hub, has a thriving start-up scene and has for long been touted as Africa’s Silicon Savannah.

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