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Ex-president's perks call for a reality check

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta outside the Defense headquarters during his farewell ceremony on September 9, 2022. [Kelly Ayodi, Standard]

A top professor in an Ivy League university recently rattled an international conference with a radical view that being born an African is a curse.

In his approximation, how else would you explain the rather high levels of mediocrity, especially among political leadership?

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