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Motorcycles are helping to alleviate poverty, but they have their downsides

A group of boda boda riders. [Courtesy]

Today, we begin by posing the easiest of riddles.

Which mechanical contraption is two-wheeled, withholds the Third World War, has significantly impacted African economies, and is increasingly reshaping narratives of contemporary Kenyan politics?

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