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Inequality in Africa is a matter of choice

By Billow Kerrow

The  government unveiled Kenya’s largest budget in history — at Sh1.8 trillion — for 2014/15. It includes approximately Sh20 billion for specifically mitigating effects of poverty and inequality, through affirmative action and social protection programmes; a positive gesture by all means, but a drop in the ocean.

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