What is role of Brand Kenya and why does it exist?

While in other countries athletes succeed because of the support they receive from their governments, in Kenya it is totally different and they succeed despite the poor treatment they are subjected to Photo: Courtesy

Some weeks ago, when the doping issue was being discussed on a local talk show, one of the panelists, a sports journalist, pointed out that there was something amiss with the way Kenya's athletes are packaged.

He seemed to understand the doping problem more than most of the panelists, and he did not sugar-coat his words, and fearlessly pointed fingers where he thought the problem was, even at the media.