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When all I had was Sh1,200, here’s how I made it work

King Kaka, an award-winning artiste and entrepreneur

“It’s not about how fast you pedal, it’s about how clearly you focus.”

That’s what one of my college teachers wrote on the board at the end of her class, and then she walked out. You know how people always get up quickly when class is over? That day, I hang back asking myself what the deeper meaning of the quote she’d written was, and why she’d left it there.

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