On a recent tour of Kilifi County, I was shocked by the levels of sheer grinding poverty and hunger. The worst-hit areas are such places as Dungicha, Bale and Dida, which I imagine most readers have never even heard of.
People may be poor but they do not have to starve, I told myself repeatedly. It was appalling as well as distressing. It was also indicative of a leadership vacuum that is akin to a black hole in space; not even the light of available solutions seems to escape the desperate poverty of Kilifi.
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