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Four Kenyan entrepreneurs in race to win Jack Ma's Sh178.5m innovative prize

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Founder of Alibaba group Jack Ma arrives for the Tech for Good summit in Paris, 2019. [AP Photo]

Four local technology entrepreneurs are training their guns on making Kenya proud by winning a sizeable share of the Jack Ma Foundation's Africa's Business Heroes (ABH) Prize come October this year.

With over 21,000 entrants from the continent, there was a 20 per cent increase in applications from Central Africa, accounting for nine per cent, Southern Africa (17 per cent), while East Africa and West Africa accounted for 17 per cent and 43 per cent of all applications respectively.

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