Kenya treats these European countries as equal partners, not the way West Africans allowed them to print and manipulate their currency rule economy for decades. I'm glad for Traore's Burkina, Mali, and Niger for starting the ball to run. French and West African encroachment is now getting eroded as other countries in the region are kicking them out outright or demanding equal treatment, the likes of Kenya. If the agreement does not benefit both parties, it will be terminated. That is the new African motto. Arikan Chiombori, with the backing of African Americans, has quietly brought changes without much bloodshed. The iron lady of Africa has been trashing France for almost 8 years now and gave Traore and the young leaders a platform in West Africa to start uprooting France immense economic damage.
Is it Equal Partners or puppet? Can Kenya go to USA or Britain and set-up a military base like the Europeans are doing in Kenya?
Can Kenya go to Texas and grab land for conservation?
Kenya is not a rich country to have trade routes and critical installations that require military bases/protections. I'm sure if Africa unites with one passport, currency, and military, it would easily have bases in the Caribbean and other places because the leverage it will have will be immense. The Middle East, Europe, and the rest will feel the weight of the leverage. The poorer the country gets, the less leverage it holds.