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Where did all the jobs go?

BY XN IRAKI

KENYA: To the younger generation, this may sound like fiction. I got my first job offer when I was in Form Two. I refused to take it and passed it over to a classmate who left school and joined a leading sugar making firm. Several of my classmates left school for the world of work. That was Kenya’s golden age, when there were many choices. It was not a long time ago, as I was born long after the Union Jack came down.

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