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Innovation at the heart of new Swiss plan for Africa
President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) and Swiss counterpart Alain Berset (left) witness the signing of a framework agreement for return of stolen assets stashed in Switzerland to Kenya by the Swiss Ambassador to Kenya Ralf Heckner and Attorney General Paul Kihara June 9, 2018. PHOTO | MARTIN MUKANGU | NMG
One of my early childhood memories is of waiting at the airport with my family for my father to return from Africa. In today’s globalised world, it is difficult to convey just how unusual this experience was for a Swiss child in the 1960s.
Intercontinental travel was still a rare and exceptional experience back then. And Africa, to any Swiss child, was a remote and mysterious place.