. >> good morning i am rob hopkins and i've had the pleasure of working in kenya for a number of years. i wonder if you could share your thoughts on how you see kenya's role specifically in the region outside of the exporting security to somalia and things of that nature, internal struggles that kenya has and whether they are able to if they have a capacity to be an exporter of security or what other rules do you see in the run of africa. >> kenya's an economic powerhouse in the sense it it has this vibrant economy and along made that last it's just a question of making sure that the redistribution within this system works. i think secondly kenya is going through its own exercise of reviewing its entire constitutional arrangements post 2007. in effect, kenya is emblematic in a much more sophisticated sense of what's happening in the region. we talk about democracy in the real issue is how do you get accountability and how far to decentralize in a region where you still have incomplete national projects. this is the interesting in fascinating dilemma of this region. so we talk about fed

i'm rob hopkins. i've had the pleasure of living in working in kenya for a number of years. i'm wondering if you could share your thoughts on how you see kenya's role specifically in the region outside of their -- you know, exporting security to somalia and things of that nature, the internal struggles that kenya has and whether they're able to -- if they have the capacity to be an exporter of security or what other roles do you see them in the horn of africa or at large? thank you. >> you know, kenya's an economic powerhouse in the sense that it has this incredibly vibrant economy. it's just a question of making sure that the redistribution within the system works. kenya of going through it own exercise of reviewing its entire constitutional arrangement post 2007, in effect what -- and kenya's emblematic in a much more sophisticated sense of what's going on in the region. we talk about democracy. the real issue is how far do you decentralize in a region where you still have incomplete national projects. ok. this is the interesting and fascinating dilemma of this region. you