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Subtle signs of middle-class living in Kenya

A shoe rack. (Courtesy/iStock)

The middle class demography is complex in terms variables and indices of economic and social status.

It is a discussion I have had with several people and we never agreed on the size of the middle class in Kenya. The middle class is the demographic between the upper and lower classes. The imaginary "poverty line" is the Equator of economic status, dividing the upper North and lower South.

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