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Broke, I left for Kigali, now I export veggies

William Macharia, a Kenyan who does farming in Kigali, Rwanda.

After the 2007/08 post-election violence, William Macharia found himself jobless. He was working as a technical advisor in an agricultural company in Mount Kenya that was growing vegetables for export, but folded due to post-poll pressures and uncertainity.

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