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Kenya’s middle class: Story of people living on borrowed time

Vehicles parked outside Truce Lounge along Kiambu Road on Monday, August 30, 2021. [David Njaaga, Standard]

“Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends, worked hard all my lifetime...”

These lyrics by the late American musician Janis Joplin in a song of “great social and political import” rejecting...