THE FUTURE OF KENYA BETWEEN CONSUMERISM, FAST INDUSTRIALIZATION AND EXTREME POVERTY
AlJazeera posted a video report on the prospects for Kenya’s economy entitled “Counting the costs? Kenya: the new factory of the world”. The video shows a country polarized between fast industrialization, consumerism, and the extreme poverty of more than 40% of its population. Kenya expects to have an annual growth of 10% by 2017, thus becoming one of the world’s biggest economies. …