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Uhuru, don't believe your own hype, country isn't doing well

President Uhuru Kenyatta makes his remarks during the opening of the MAS Intimates Kenya, EPZA, in Machakos County. May 11, 2022. [PSCU, Standard]

The dictionary defines hype as “the promotion or publicising of a product or idea intensively, often exaggerating its benefits.”

Students of business are often taught that whereas it may get them desired sales and marketing outcomes, one must never be taken in by their own hype. Yet this is a lesson that seems lost on Kenya’s ruling elite.

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