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Forty Billionaires and Forty Million Beggars
Although Kenya often appears in the press as a nation split by ethnic discord, it has just two “tribes”: the rich and the poor.
Matt Carotenuto is associate professor of history and coordinator of African studies at St Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He is the co-author of Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging in Kenya.
Although Kenya often appears in the press as a nation split by ethnic discord, it has just two “tribes”: the rich and the poor.