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How a relentless hustler in Kenya can build a billion-shilling empire

A grocery business in Nairobi West on Sunday, April 05 2020. The ongoing countrywide COVID-19 curfew has rendered scores jobless with most businesses shutting down owing to hard economic times.[David Njaaga, Standard]

Every morning, Kenya reveals itself as a nation quietly forging its own empires.

A boda boda rider in Kiambu navigates through traffic with surgical precision. In the Silicon Savannah, a young coder transforms simple scripts into genuine income.

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