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Kenya’s economic growth crisis: Wins and woes for devolution
The skyline of Nairobi CBD on June 23, 2021. The CAIPS aim to help Kenya reverse its reliance on imports, shifting from 80 percent imported consumption to greater local production.
While Madaraka Day podiums on June 1, 2025, waxed on Kenya’s socio-economic achievements, alarms sounded from the World Bank on surging debt potentially catastrophic for Kenya; the African Development Bank (AfDB), my former employer, published its growth outlook for 2025/26.
East Africa is growing fastest in Africa at 5.9 percent. Ethiopia, Rwanda, Djibouti, Uganda and Tanzania lead growth. Kenya is relegated.
