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Recently, columnist XN Iraki wrote an interesting article on the genesis of the so-called ‘Kikuyu capitalism’. In it, he demonstrated how a relatively un-African tree, the black wattle of Australia, became literally the green gold for a group of people from Murang’a County also referred to by the older generation as ‘Fort Hall District’.
That the tree made a few millionaires and helped to educate a lot of us older folks is incontestable if you ask anyone from the hilly landslide-prone county. He also creatively speculated on why the people from the county have dominated the property market in Nairobi. His final conclusion that the real reason is the superior entrepreneurial spirit of the people from there is spot on. It is, however, a subject that many Kenyans simply do not want to accept in spite of the glaring evidence.
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