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President Uhuru Kenyatta: Why I draw inspiration from ex-Singapore leader

With the passing of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore, we mourn one of the modern world's foremost nation builders and visionaries.

The story of Singapore under Lee is well known. The island state grew from a poor colonial backwater and foreign military base to first-world status in a single generation.

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