When Kenya discovered oil, the experience of Norway with its sovereign wealth fund became a topic of discussion on how the former could avoid the resource curse that accompanies such discoveries. Visiting Norway and its capital city Oslo this past week, however, demonstrated to me that Kenya has a lot more to learn than oil.
This is not just because it is the city where the Nobel peace prize is awarded every year but also the deliberate efforts city administrators have made to position the city. I met a group of Kenyans who had been in the city for over 15 years. They shared with me the changes they had seen over the past five years.
