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When Francis Njoroge graduated with an engineering degree in Nairobi, he expected a six-figure salary. Instead, he found himself working as an electrician on a three-month contract, for Sh20,000 a month.
Realising permanent and well-paid jobs were hard to come by in Nairobi, he moved back to his parents’ farm in Kimandi, a village about 150km away, and start his own business planting and selling tree seedlings.
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