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The organisation sought to unleash the industrial potential of East–Central Africa. However, the sparse population and lack of indigenous skills and capital made the area a power vacuum. The society saw a "partnership of
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it nominated two candidates for the fourteen
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a means of filling this vacuum and positively integrating the region into the world economy.
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The organisation briefly participated in electoral politics in Kenya. In the
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was elected in the Central (non-Muslim) constituency.
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