Are Kenya’s Best Days behind Us?
I AM A KENYAN CITIZEN, NOT BY ACCIDENT OF BIRTH BUT BY choice. I first voted in the 2007 General elections which was later followed by the referendum in 2010, this exercise made me a Kenyan because I love this country very much and it is my sincere belief and my faculties are convinced it is an exceptional country in Africa and the World at large. But in my perspective view of the world, the world is currently bombarded by strong winds of technological change and global competition.
This makes me a little nervous. Perhaps this is yielded out of the fact that as these forces gather strength, Kenya seems unable to grasp the magnitude of the challenges that face us. Despite of the hyped increased investments in Kenya. China is building our roads and constructing our dams, where are our engineers? In spite of this hard hitting fact, most Kenyans operate on the assumption that Kenya is still an economic power house in East and Central Africa.
Whatever the today’s economic growth and the decisions that created the growth in the education sector, infrastructure, agriculture and horticulture were made decades ago. What we see today is a Kenyan economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 60s and 70s.
Germany, by contrast, was almost entirely destroyed by World War 11. this gave it a chance to embrace civilization and rebuild its physical infrastructure which also saw the revision o its antiquated institutions that included , the political system, the guilds as well as the economy with a more modern frame of mind.
Therefore all Kenyans are stakeholders in this, lets unite for a common course and rebuild Kenya to a regional power house.
By
Shadrack Mbaka
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