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‘Small’ hustle, but big money

Nairobi’s eastern bypass is often interrupted at the roundabout to Windsor Golf & Country Club by a queue of vehicles on the roadside. The drivers are queuing to buy sugarcane. I joined them recently.

The young man, with the precision of a surgeon, peels off the hard part of the cane, then cuts it into small pieces and places these in a small polythene pouch, each going for Sh20.

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