Taste for foreign thingsThis is a member of the so-called Kenya’s ‘rising’ middle class, eating in a low-income eatery. They serve exotic cuisines, from Ethiopian to Chinese, popular with the typical middle class with a taste for all things foreign. IEA’s report, “The Middle Class in Formal Sector in Kenya,” found that there are about 272,569 middle class wage employees in Kenya, with another 74,337 wage employees taking home more than the middle class. The African Development Bank (AfDB) defines middle class as anyone who spends between $2 and $20 a day (Sh200 and Sh2,000) — putting the middle class at 34 per cent of Africa’s population, or nearly 350 million people. “So that demarcation is a thin line for policy-makers to know who is a middle class and who is not.”The term middle class emanated from a group of workers who neither the owners of capital nor the peasants who worked in the factories in the age of the industrial revolution.

Source: Standard Digital April 29, 2017 18:22 UTC