Transforming Global Partnerships: Political Economy Insights From Kenya’s Role In The Asia-Africa Growth Corridor
Aaquil Ahmed
By: Aaquil Ahmed
Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) has been proposed to drive economic cooperation and integration, through capacity and skill building, people-to-people relationships, and structural help. It is an initiative between India and Japan to work on development cooperation, digital connectivity, and quality infrastructure. Kenya, one of the central nations in East Africa situated favorably to provide India access to eastern Africa and vice versa, can, therefore, be a post-off for this endeavor.
Being a gateway to East Africa, Kenya has been able to take advantage of her participation in trade and investment. Strengthening maritime security could facilitate Indian strategic presence in key ports such as Mombasa and Lamu, enhancing India-East Africa connectivity. In addition, broadening agricultural links and cooperation in technology transfer and skill development would help deepen economic engagement with India for Kenya.
For example, Indian scholars such as Sanusha Naidu argue that the developmentalism in India prioritizes building capacity and sharing technology with Kenya—practices that complement the needs of both countries (Naidu, 2017). Kenya emerges as a domestic and regional growth engine in AAGC according to studies by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).
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