President Mwai Kibaki receives an envelope from a Kenya Defence Forces soldier during a ceremony in his honour as the outgoing Commander-In-Chief in Nairobi on March 22, 2013. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
No interaction made such a lasting impact on my career as the one with the departed President Mwai Kibaki, a sharp intellectual giant. In merging academic rigour with policy insights that transform broken economies, few economists cross the journey with the ease that Kibaki did.
From the start, he turned from discredited demand-side palliatives to supply-side transformations and a belief in Kenyans’ capabilities to fix their own problems and create wealth for themselves.
