Kenya’s real growth doomed if we can’t retain our best talent

Doctors blow vuvuzela outside Milimani commercial court today on 26, January 2017 as they demonstrate. [PHOTO: EDWARD KIPLIMO/Standard].

According to the President of Mauritius, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, a top-notch skilled labour force is not just a fundamental driver for divergent parts of the economy. It has the capacity to address a wide range of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals aimed at ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, as well as, tackling effects of climate change.

But while other countries globally have been in a fierce battle for training, attracting, poaching and retaining highly-skilled workers, the fight for talent and brains means nothing to most governments in Sub-Saharan Africa, even when there is urgent need to pay special attention.