Beyond informal: Africa’s industrial future will be built from below

Small business traders operating from Gikomba Market busy at work on July 12, 2023.

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When discussions about industrialisation arise, attention quickly turns to industrial parks, multinational corporations and billion-shilling investments.

Yet this conventional picture overlooks a quieter reality unfolding across Kenya and much of Africa. Industrialisation is already taking place. It simply does not look the way many policymakers imagine.

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