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Inspire our youth to create own businesses

Simon Gicharu

Few would deny that as a country, we are facing many challenges. The youth are the most affected because they form the majority of the population. The biggest problem they have to grapple with is joblessness.

The best way to address this seemingly intractable problem is to grow the economy to a level where it can absorb the high number of graduates. However, there is another novel way that we can use to reduce the number of young people with nothing meaningful to do with their lives.

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