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The billions changing hands in shadowy slum economy

A boy learns how to ride a bicycle in Kibera slums on May 21, 2021.[Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Like the untouchables in the Indian caste system, the ‘filthy’ slum dwellers of Nairobi have been shunned by a nation that is busy trying to achieve post-industrial status by turning the capital city into a financial hub and Africa’s Silicon Savannah.

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