The year is 2018 and the average East African - let us call her Kazuri - is richer than her Chinese and Russian counterparts.
A citizen of an industrialised region, earning $12,723 per annum and owes much of her wealth to manufactured goods produced in her country, from cellular phones and refrigerators to merchant vessels and warships, aircraft and luxury vehicles, you name it, East Africa makes it.
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