Mwai Kibaki became Kenya's most influential president despite never appearing to want the job, arriving at State House carrying five decades of academic economics and a clear understanding that growth begins with subtraction. From his hospital bed after the 2002 accident, he directed the most successful economic recovery in East African history by knowing that sometimes the smartest intervention is to stop intervening. This trail follows the man who treated Kenya as a macroeconomics case study and discovered that nations, like investments, eventually pay for competence.
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