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Family Curse: Businesses become graveyards when founders die

Nine out of 10 businesses in Kenya are family-owned. Most of them are small, table-top enterprises with family members as the only employees.

Available data shows that they contribute about 60 per cent of employment in Kenya, which is huge. Unfortunately, if a family owned business survives the problems associated with early deaths of Kenyan start-ups, they tend to die with the founder.

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