Financial markets played a major role in economic boom

An employee makes notes in front of an electronic stock information screen inside the Nairobi Securities Exchange Ltd. (NSE), in Nairobi, 2015.[Riccardo Gangale/Bloomberg]

For investors, Mwai Kibaki’s transformative ideas in the capital markets between 2002 and 2013 will surely outlive him.

President Kibaki was many things to different people, but an admirable economist to nearly all.