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E-sport booming in Kenya [Business Africa]

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Kenya is working to attract more investors into its gaming industry, as it hopes to share a slice of the $135 billion global market.

It is a game and also an income-generating activity. E-sport is now a major part of Kenya’s economic sector with hundreds of jobs created to date.

Marie Diouf is a Senegalese woman who started producing salt in a male-dominated environment.

The fight has been long, but Marie Diouf was able to establish herself and find her place in an essentially male environment. That of collecting salt from the marshes.

It is in the Fatick region of western Senegal that the Salt Queen, as she is known, opened her company, which now employs about ten people.

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