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HAWKING: What Kenyans can do, Cameroonians perfect it

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Food vendors display roasted maize to passengers through window of a bus along Kisumu-Nakuru highway during a journey break at Kericho bus stage on April 10,2016 morning. The maize sellers have become innovative on how to carry their ready to eat produce by modifying wires on a long rod to carry more than what normal hand carries. Each one carries up to fifteen pieces with single full maize sold at sh20. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

If you think Kenyans make the best hawkers in the continent, wait until you visit other countries.

Well, the business is not any different from Kenyan towns just that some of the products you expect to purchase from shops or supermarkets are readily available to commuting customers.

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