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Lessons we need to learn from US presidential campaigns

There are several lessons that Kenyans must learn from the American presidential campaigns, fundamentally so because local politics is stale.

Stale because politicians in successive regimes have maintained similar retrogressive style over time so much so that every election year, businessmen refuse to invest, ordinary citizens are reluctant to spend, foreign investors shy away, everyone adopts a policy of ‘let’s wait see how it goes’.

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