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Poverty made me ace marketer

By Martin Mwangi

In a little village called Ngamwa in Mukurweini, Nyeri, where every homestead grew bananas of its own, 10-year-old Lucy hawked the bananas every Saturday just to afford paraffin for the lamp she used when doing her homework.

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