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Can Kibaki be proactive?

Michael Ranneberger, the US ambassador and ‘darling’ of the Kenyan youth, described Kenya’s leaders in the just released Wikileaks cables as politicians with great ‘desire for self-preservation’.

Although they are responsive to some degree of intense international and domestic pressure, they only work to survive and approach all issues with self-interest and rarely take a broad and future outlook.

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