President Uhuru Kenyatta rallies leaders to revive Pan-Africanism

President Kenyatta and Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf during the 23rd Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the APRM in South Africa. Kenya will host the APRM meeting on September 11. [PHOTO: FILE/ STANDARD]

President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to consolidate his budding Pan-Africanist credentials when he hosts more than 15 African Heads of State in Nairobi to revive the fledgling African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).

In a growing pattern of a President who has set his sights farther, Kenyatta is championing the revival of the APRM, an initiative which appears to have lost steam through inaction of governments and criticism of scholars.