Kenya: Will Kenya Heed Obama's Advice?

1 August 2015
opinion

As he departed Kenya early this week -- after three days of visiting -- the United States President Barack Obama had a challenging message for Kenyans and their leaders. "Kenya," he said, "is at a crossroads -- a moment filled with peril, but also enormous promise." In a moving speech he delivered from Nairobi's Safaricom Stadium Kasarani, broadcast live on national radio and television networks, and attended by an estimated 4,500 people on July 26, 2015, Obama asked Kenyans and their leaders to deepen democracy, tackle corruption, and end exclusion based on gender, tribalism and ethnicity.

He suggested three pillars of Kenya's progress namely: Strong democratic governance; development that provides opportunity for all people - not just some - and a sense of national identity that rejects conflict for future peace and reconciliation.

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