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Women, technology and the rise of smart solutions

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Irene Mwangi, Marketing Manager Consumer Electronics, Samsung East Africa. [Courtesy]

Dr James Emmanuel Kwegyir-Aggrey once said: "If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation."

Across Africa, women have been known to be the real backbone of society since time immemorial, carrying out important family tasks like tending to the children, tilling the land, or even building houses, as is the case with the Maasai and their manyattas.

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