Kibaki was East Africa’s ‘good thief in the night’
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki during the celebration of Kenya's 40th Independence Day at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi on December 12, 2003. PHOTO | AFP
Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki, Kenya’s third president from December 2002 until April 2013, died on April 21. He was 90. And with that, the exit of easily East Africa’s most enigmatic leader.
Warts and all, and an administration that had its fair share of corruption scandals, Kibaki nevertheless was the most reformist and game-changing Kenyan leader of the past 60 years.
