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Why Africa’s economic liberation starts with freeing the entrepreneur

 Delegates awaiting clearance at a security check at the University of Nairobi on May 11, 2026, as part of the Africa Forward Summit 2026. 

Photo credit: Wilfred Nyangaresi | Nation Media Group

By  NANCY NYAANGA

The recent visit by the French president for the Africa Forward Summit sparked the usual flurry of diplomatic commentary.

It took me back to the 12th-century French word, franchir, meaning "to free".

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