Kenya looks East as changing needs call for policy shift

BY JUMA KWAYERA

KENYA: Over the past 50 years, Kenya’s foreign policy shift has been drastic, helped by changing economic and political interests at home and abroad. From a ‘subservient’ policy that defined engagement with the developed world, Kenya’s friends have equally changed. In the last few decades, Nairobi has eschewed the capitalist West in preference to the communist East.