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Why horses never cease to fascinate me despite newer innovations

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Anti-riot police on horses pursued anti-government protesters along Muindi Mbingu Avenue, Nairobi on June 25, 2024. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

By the time I was going to school, horses had vanished from the countryside. There were plenty during the colonial period. They epitomised the British traditions.

Without good roads, they were an efficient means of transport. Curiously, Schumpeter's gale of creative destruction has failed to 'kill' horses, the same way mobile phones killed pagers. Any Generation Z (Gen Z) who has seen a pager?

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