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Kenya’s curse: Motion without movement

“You cannot grow an economy on mitumba, matatu and boda boda,” a former presidential candidate once told me.

“You see,” he persuaded me, “these ones largely live hand-to-mouth and little is left to save or pass around at end of the day.”

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