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High-end accessories: From kiondo traders to leather items firm

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Emmanuel Njoroge and Jacqueline Mutune, founders of Thonge Leather, a firm that makes wallets, keyholders, handbags and laptop bags pose for a photo with some of their products on May 9, 2023. PHOTO | LUCY WANJIRU | NMG

By  Caroline Wanjugu

Contributor

Nation Media Group

Had you told Jacqueline Muthoki and Emmanuel Njoroge four years ago that today they would be business partners building a fast-growing premium leather accessories firm, they would have laughed you away.

They had settled into their stable jobs and neither of them had entertained thoughts of venturing into entrepreneurship.

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