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How to develop rural Kenya and ride season of promises

Supporters of ODM leader Raila Odinga in Ololunga Narok County. [Emmanuel Wanson]

Listening to political discourse in my neck of the woods as well as nationally, and in considering prevalent ideas about how to develop Laikipia, and rural Kenya, I can distil some frame of reference. But first a disclaimer. They are not documented theories. Rather, what follows here is my own interpretation of what politicians are saying.

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