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How a small town almost became Kenya's Singapore

A disused tannery in Shamata town in the White Highlands. [XN Iraki, Standard]

The size of Singapore is only 0.12 per cent of Kenya’s landmass, smaller than most of our counties. It has a population of only six million people. It’s a city-state.

Its small size means the best approach to transforming Kenya into a developed country by 2055 is through the bottom-up, making every hamlet, village and county a “Singapore.”

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