“We must get the citizens angry enough,” development expert Reuben Kigame said at the Pan-African Media Conference on Debt and Development in Nairobi. “We share the issue of debt,” said conference moderator Fidélité Nshimiyimana from Afrodad, the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development. Public debt is not an evil in itself. And over time, public debt has escalated to mind-boggling levels. These trillions and billions, however, have an abstract, intangible quality to “a Kenyan public accustomed to calculating daily expenses in hundreds and thousands of shillings”, to quote Michela Wrong’s It’s our turn to eat.

Source: The Star June 14, 2021 01:52 UTC