The push for absorption of capital and lazy African administrations

President Uhuru Kenyatta and US President Donald Trump lead their respective delegations in bilateral talks during the official visit by the President and the First Lady to the White House in Washington DC, USA. The Kenyan delegation had no notebooks during the talks. [PSCU]

In one week, President Uhuru Kenyatta visited the United States of America, hosted British Prime Minister Theresa May in State House Nairobi, before jetting out to China. This globe-trotting profile of President Kenyatta has earned him a regional and international profile as “The Foreign Affairs President” and with it praise and criticism in equal measure.

This tight schedule of international engagements shows the level of competition among global powers. This plays out in the guise of international trade and cooperation, but this is just a veiled race for dominance and relevance. I have in the past discussed China’s activities around the world, while giving the example of Sri Lanka and Venezuela, which have now become satellite states of China; have literally given up their sovereignty to China due to massive debts that they have been unable to service.