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President William Ruto launches construction of the Rironi-Mau Summit Road in Gilgil, Nakuru County, on November 28, 2025. [PCS]
During the French Revolution of 1789, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès famously wrote about the third estate, the vast majority of society that was ignored and exploited despite carrying the greatest burden of economic and social life. This historical imagery later inspired French demographer Alfred Sauvy, who in 1952 coined the term 'Third World', drawing directly from Sieyès by likening poor and marginalised countries to the third estate of revolutionary France
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