Stop the lie that entrepreneurship is solution to mass unemployment

Jobseekers in Nairobi’s city centre. FILE PHOTO | nmG

Entrepreneurship has always been touted as the solution to the problem of unemployment and underemployment in Kenya.

A recent research collaboration between Trends and Insights Africa (Tifa) and job listing site Brighter Monday painted a very dire picture with 86 per cent of the 15 million unemployed working-age Kenyans comprising the youth aged between 18-34 years.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.