Let's take stock of Africa's progress at African Peer Review Mechanism Summit

Next week Kenya achieves an important milestone in its growing role as a continental leader. After a fairly moribund season under the leadership of Liberia's Ellen Johnston Sirleaf, the African Peer Review Mechanism, APRM will hold its Extraordinary Heads of States Summit in Nairobi.

The APRM is a uniquely African mechanism through which African governments, in recognition of the link between socio-economic development and democracy, governance and human rights, agreed to self-assess and submit to review by their peers on these parameters.