Why Africa's leaders cannot fix a trust crisis they helped create

President William Ruto with his Tanzanian counterpart President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Tanzania. [PCS]

Two former and current Kenyan presidents spoke on the same day last Tuesday about the same disease gripping the continent.

That both felt compelled to do so, one from Johannesburg, one from Dodoma, reveals more about the depth of the crisis than the speeches themselves.