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Kenya should focus on the right innovations

Occasionally, mainstream media houses amuse when they highlight Kenyan ‘innovations’.

A young man is paraded at prime news time. He will have put together a contraption he is calling an ‘aeroplane’. The last instalment I remember was something ferried on a pick-up to an open field, with the media in tow. It did not fly.

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