In a lecture delivered at the UK’s Warwick University on Saturday, Dr Ruto said African leaders must now steer their people to the ideologies of their founding fathers who vouched for Pan-Africanism that neither aligned to the East nor West. In the UK, where the Deputy President had scheduled a series of public speeches, he admitted that Africa’s six decades of independence have mostly been on paper only. The Chinese have recently been Africa’s rising creditors; advancing loans to build transportation and power transmission networks. The Chinese say their money will come as credit lines, grants, interest-free loans and concessional loans as well as special funds. But he said African leaders must be prepared to be pragmatic in order to benefit from relations on both sides without compromising their values.

Source: Daily Nation February 10, 2019 09:56 UTC