Watching a four-minute YouTube video about the Konza Techno City master plan feels exhilarating. But driving on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway past the Machakos junction paints an insipid, stodgy picture of a project chained by government unwillingness to concoct Africa's "Silicon Savannah".
Yet former President Mwai Kibaki's launch of the project in January 2013 was greeted with optimism across Africa that set the tempo for local and foreign investors around Malili town. But the buoyancy faded.
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