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Githurai and the 24-hour economy

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There are those who are in the so-called 24-hour economy by choice. And there are also those in it by default.

Life in Githurai is a metaphor of how a large majority of young people in this country are forced by circumstances into a perilous existence of a "24-hour economy". It is a time bomb.

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