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Can Kenya achieve the First World dream?

JKIA-Westlands Expressway as captrured from Westlands on April 23, 2025. [Benard Orwongo, Standard]

Our latest leadership conversation appears to have cantered on if, and when, Kenya moves from third to first world. 

In decrying our “average” national thinking, President William Ruto tells us he has a plan to get us there by 2055 or thereabouts.  In dismissing this idea under his incumbency, our amorphous “united opposition” wonders where this latest brainwave suddenly emerged from.  This is the trouble when government is basically run as a permanent electoral campaign. 

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