Youth street revolt in Nairobi adds to Africa’s urban crises of slow reforms
WIDE sections of political leaders and their advisers in senior government positions in various countries have an ingrained belief that economic reform, including offloading majority shareholding in utility companies, is just intended to please some foreign stakeholders. There was a time any exercise of share sale or reform attempt was tied with corruption, that a minister had taken bribes from the company soon to benefit from such transaction. The political system was clearly overwhelmed by such opposition, as it has been in most African states.