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President Kibaki's style is that of a competent technocrat, as opposed to the populist buffoonery, or strongman dictatorship, so common in Africa.[60] He,unlike his predecessors,has not tried to establish a personality cult.[118] He has not had his portrait on every unit of Kenya's currency, neither has he had all manner of streets, places and institutions named after him.[118] He has not had state sanctioned praise songs composed in his honour, does not seek to dominate and lead all news bulletins with reports of his presidential activities, and does not engage in the populist sloganeering of his predecessors.[60]
The President's style of a seemingly aloof withdrawn technocrat or intellectual makes him come across as a seemingly snobbish upper class urbanite who is out of touch with the ordinary Kenyan.[68] The President's aloof "delegation style" also makes his governments,especially at cabinet level, seem dysfunctional and chaotic.[119]
From Mwai Kibaki in Wikipedia
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