American Democracy Is Not the Beacon It Once Was for Africa’s Elite
A Kenyan friend of mine who graduated from Harvard Business School recently told me that the United States is a good place to get an education, but “it is no longer a leading light”.
“We are looking elsewhere, not just the West”, she said. “Democracy? I don’t believe in it”.
She made the comment at a dinner party I attended in the garden of a gated neighborhood in Karen, a wealthy Nairobi suburb earlier this summer, as Kenyans were preparing to elect a new president. Nearly everyone in attendance was a Kenyan who had graduated from a top American school and gone on to an impressive career in finance, business consulting or government service.… Seguir leyendo »