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Joys and perils of technology

Mohamed Guleid

Since independence, the Kenyan economy has gone through periods of transformation and shocks. During the Cold War, Kenya’s alignment to the capitalist west shielded our economy artificially from market shocks because of the foreign aid and balance of payment support it got.

We were then the darling of the West even though the country was under the much-maligned one-party government of Kanu.

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