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East Africa makes good beer... and that’s about it

By  Charles Onyango-Obbo

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East Africa is awash with “Buy Made in…” Uganda, Rwanda, and so forth, campaigns.

Some say we are having a new era of economic nationalism – and we were in it before Donald Trump started his “America First” campaign.

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