Kenya on the right path to development

Kenyans at a past Jamhuri Day celebration at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

“I bet you will be back soon, you like it so much here,” a Kenyan friend told me with a laugh when I left the country over 25 years ago. I had spent a year in the country as part of my diplomatic training. My friend was right in the end, even though I had to wait for 25 years. 

I came back to Kenya in August as Ambassador of Switzerland. The world is a completely different place today and Kenya has changed a lot. Nairobi in the early nineties had a quite peaceful, almost rural feel. Today’s Nairobi is visibly a metropolis and the centre of a dynamic economic area that encompasses the entire region.