China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

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.

Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.