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Kenya can expand industrial sector if we embrace technology, buy local goods

By Anyang Nyongo

NAIROBI, KENYA: We may very well be involved in a futile debate regarding whether we should industrialise or not, or whether we should give priority to agriculture rather than to industry. I call this debate futile because it is misdirected, ill conceived and unnecessary. We have no alternative but to industrialise which also means that our agricultural production will also be industrialised and not entirely dependent on raw human labour, crude implements and natural gifts from God.

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