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Mwai Kibaki - Kenya's towering economist without a 'school'

Motivational speaker Robert Burale (left) and Bishop David Muriithi of House of Grace, Nairobi look at Kibaki's memoirs during day two of the public viewing of body of the late former President Mwai Kibaki at Parliament buildings, Nairobi on April 26, 2022 [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Former President Mwai Kibaki is in a league of very few leaders in history that have taken their countries to greater heights of economic growth as he did when they grew the Gross National Product (GDP) from - 2 per cent to a whopping 7 per cent. Despite graduating from the London School of Economics and teaching briefly in Makerere University, no one can really say whose Economic disciple Kibaki was.

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