Investing in Kenya’s young micro-entrepreneurs

A growing number of young Kenyans have established informal ‘hustles’.

The Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout have hit everyone in Kenya hard. But at the height of lockdown measures, while the formal sector of the economy ground to a halt, the informal sector demonstrated its resilience. For young people in particular, whose schools were closed and whose parents may have lost their jobs, the informal sector has been a lifeline.