Attempts to force rapid formalisation sometimes undermine the very networks that sustain these enterprises. What many small producers require is not displacement but support.
By
Deputy Vice Chancellor - Planning and Development
Tharaka University
When discussions about industrialisation arise, attention quickly turns to industrial parks, multinational corporations and billion-shilling investments.
Yet this conventional picture overlooks a quieter reality unfolding across Kenya and much of Africa. Industrialisation is already taking place. It simply does not look the way many policymakers imagine.
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