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Diaspora inclusion key to growing national cake this year

Kenyans are now sending much more money back home in value and usefulness. [iStockphoto]

The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina recently tweeted that Africans in the diaspora are the continent's largest financiers.

Remittances from the diaspora to Africa have steadily grown almost threefold from $37 billion (Sh4.4 trillion) in 2010 to $96 billion (Sh11.6 trillion) in 2021.

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