Can entrepreneurship cure the chronic unemployment in Kenya?

Kenya is one of the relatively peaceful countries in the world facing unemployment crisis. The World Bank in its report mentions Kenya as among the worst affected by unemployment levels in Africa. Just recently a would be graduate of Chuka University Patrick Muthomi carried a placard in Muthaiga area  pleading for people to offer him a job, highlighting the challenges Kenyan graduates are facing in getting jobs. It’s even worse for the non-graduates or the many that are unable to get good education for the many reasons there are. Several people some of relatively high profile have propagated the idea of entrepreneurship as a cure for this malady. I both agree and disagree at the same time and for very good reasons.

Entrepreneurship is a very good thing. It drives relationships in terms of trade and economic growth that has impacts on other pillars of the economy. Entrepreneurs create all sets of industries and create lots of jobs. In any decent economy the biggest employment is to be found in private enterprises of all manners in kind and sizes.  This is usually as a result of entrepreneurial minds and physical efforts to set up. Nonetheless, it is futile just to imagine that entrepreneurship just come up in any form of space or operate in vacuum.