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How did student debt get this bad?

Paying off your student loan is never easy – but, for thousands of young Kenyans, this has become a bit of an impossible mission. Why is that though?

Paying off your student loan is never easy – but, for thousands of young Kenyans, this has become an impossible mission. Good jobs are hard to come by and the pandemic hasn’t been kind to those trying to start a career. Thousands of young graduates are defaulting on their debt. How did things get so bad?

Host: Karnie Sharp (@KarnieSharp on Twitter)
Guest: Lennies Sikuku, young graduate; David Aduda, journalist and media consultant.

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