Africa should embrace Ruto’s new capital gospel

Even President William Ruto’s most committed critics would struggle to fault the optics of last week’s France-Africa Summit.

Nairobi hosted 30 heads of state, President Emmanuel Macron of France and the who’s who of African capital — Dangote, Motsepe, El Sewedy, Rabiu — in a pageant that burnished the city’s growing reputation as the continent’s preferred venue for conferences.