The high price of a First World Kenya

Street hawkers run off with their wares along River Road to evade arrest by the Nairobi City County askaris on July 17, 2022.

Photo credit: Lucy Wanjiru | Nation Media Group

High income status within a generation is now official policy. Yet at the current growth, Kenya won't get there until well into the next century. The gap is about savings and investment, not vision.

In an address on July 30, President William Ruto invited the country to a National Conversation to write a development charter that will succeed Vision 2030.

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