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Ndiritu Muriithi: Rain, inflation and an effective economic policy

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A maize farm.

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Whenever we visited Mwai Kibaki in the 1980s, he would always enquire if it was raining in our neck of the woods.

I always wondered why the famed economic manager was very interested in that particular question.