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US President Barack Obama’s ‘prophetic’ speech

US President Barack Obama speaks Saturday during press conference at State House in Nairobi. [Photo: AFP]

The inhibitors of Kenya’s growth flagged out by President Barack Obama in his 2006 University of Nairobi public lecture, continue to stand in the way of the Kenyan dream nine years later.

Where attempts have been made to rid the country of them, they have been half-hearted or sucked into the vortex of political confusion, conspiracy and intrigues.

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