In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.
Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow.
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