Africa: Njoroge stresses need for Kenya banks to innovate

‘If we get things right, this economy will just rocket,’ says Patrick Njoroge, governor of the Central Bank of Kenya

Patrick Njoroge, governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, is reflecting on the topic of weight. But it is not the balancing of fiscal levers or the appropriate spreads for Kenya’s $7.2 billion in foreign reserves that is concerning him. No, for this recent arrival – he took over the CBK last June after 20 years at the IMF – the subject is more personal: his own girth, or lack of it.