ianSweet:
Original undiluted Nigerian architecture from the Ancient city of Kano.
A historic city built 100% by Black Africans alone.
Can Kikuyus or Kalenjins or Luo ever boast something like this? @NairobiWalker & PissedYagami

AfroCircus:

Uhm, I see oil barrels and electricity lines in the left of the 1st picture, which is dated the same time as the second picture. You sure those ain't pics of present day Bamako, Mali you try to pass as ancient Nigeria?

obaaderemi:
Our mutual friend,nairobitrekker,is going to be pissed off by this.i believe he is also animatedly glued to nairaland somewhere in eastafrica now but to encourage a kenyan politician to use nairaland? the very idea!no pun intended

Litmus:
[img]http://englishlakesblog.files./2012/02/dsc_0063.jpg[/img]

Kenya

MtuMsuper:

not a politician dude, a career professional. big difference

ianSweet:
AfroCircus, Muafrika2, KenyanStar et al
Now i can see why Kenya atttacts so many tourists, seems like most of them just want to see what the largest slum (concentration of poverty) in Africa looks like.
With all the foreign aid, why are so many slums still in Nairobi?

iblawi:

IanSweet it's OK.

Please don't post too many pics of slums here. It will send a bad image of Africa to the world. The Kenyans are happy for what they have achieved so far. It's not easy selling tea and still come up with a nice city even though most of them stay in slums. It's just a starting point for them.

I know myself Nigeria is better but we don't sell tea. We sell sweet crude which generate a lot of money for us. This is why we can carry out far bigger project. Look at the transformation in Akwa Ibom and lagos from 2007 to 2015. Many other states like Calabar, Abuja, portharcourt and others were better than Lagos and Akwa ibom in terms of infrastructure. But today Lagos became a city all Nigerians now want to call home even though it's a Yoruba land. That is the big difference between us. We can make big changes within a very short time.

AfroCircus:

Ignorance is venomous, and it murders the soul

A 10 year old Chinese kid is assembling a watch somewhere for his homework, yet here you are, an adult Internet warrior with absolutely no perception of what HDI is

NairobiWalker:


Let me for a minute pretend Nigerians actually go to space.
If Kenya had misplaced priorities like you guys we would have entered space a long time ago but we were busy ensuring everyone has good access to electricity, water, education and improving our HDI.

ianSweet:


Hahahaha, Kenyans will not kill me with their ignorance.
Do u know that Fulfude (the native language of fulanis) is a sene-gambian language? And this has been the language of fulanis since their origin in futa djallon area of Senegal.
Fulanis are full negroids who originated from Senegal. The closest languages to fulani are wolof, Serer, Tukulor and other west African languages spoken by black africans.
Go and check fulani history well. They originated here in West Africa. It is even the hausas who are believed to have middle-eastern origin which some of their genes prove. The fulanis have pure African genes.

Besides, the fulanis conquered only the hausas. The yorubas, Edos, Bornus and other Nigerian tribes also had their ancient kingdoms and empires, some even stronger than the Sokoto caliphate.

ianSweet:


Exactly, the foreigners deceive them with the 'multicultural or united multiracial society' tag, whereas you find the white and Indian people living in the most exotic and affluent neighbourhoods milking their heritage and country while majority of the black people live in the slums and imterior villages with no amenities of modern life.

Worst of all, u hardly find the whites or Indians intermarrying them, they prefer to marry within their own kind and social class in order to maintain their wealth and economic domination of thr blacks. It's just so sad how black people are exploited by others even on our own soil and motherland.
Thank God for Nigeria- THE PRIDE OF THE BLACK MAN

NairobiWalker:


I'm really giving this dude sleepless nights he can't stop thinking of me. Why would I be mad that someone joined Nairaland yet I'm on Nairaland? The earlier he joins the better - there's always a lot to learn from online forums and it's good when senior government officials understand their countries and people better.

gallivant:
The first African to space was South African the second was Kenyan. Nigerians good luck with the satelites.

Horus:


Kenyan? , he look more like an Indian

ianSweet:
AfroCircus, Muafrika2, KenyanStar et al
Now i can see why Kenya atttacts so many tourists, seems like most of them just want to see what the largest slum (concentration of poverty) in Africa looks like.
With all the foreign aid, why are so many slums still in Nairobi?

mkenya254:
This thread has become too repetitive.

Here is why I Like Kenya.
We have accepted the issues we have and are working to solve them while Nigerians still have their heads in the sand and keep talking of how great they are yet this does not reflect on the common Nigerian.

Let us looks at some things. I gave very practical applications of how the government of Kenya has adopted technology and is even experimenting with some technologies that not many countries tries in the world are willing to at the moment e. G. Blockchain. Right now I can do a land registry search, company registration, driver license renewal, submit tax returns, get insurance etc all online. @ianSweet replies by producing a list of Nigerians who hold patents by creating new technologies. The sad fact is that for all people in the list she produced, there is NO single technology that has been adopted in anyway to create a successful startup or has changed the life of any ordinary Nigerian in Nigeria or wherever. But look at Kenya, Mpesa brought financial services to even the most marginalized communities living in the desert, mkopo solar provides power to people that have not been reached by the national grid etc. In a country whose 70% of the population lives below 1Usd per day we have the most successful startups being online shopping instead of agriculture... Lol

Despite many reports having been linked to here showing that 66% of people in Lagos are in a slum. Many Nigerians with the aim of national pride are willing to dispell Facts and pretend that slums are non existent and resort to posting endless pictures of slums they have googled to be in Nairobi. The sad fact was especially when they keep reiterating that Makoko has been completely destroyed yet I have seen Makoko with my own eyes thus year and several articles show that only a VERY SMALL part of Makoko was demolished. What is Kenya doing? We have slum upgrade plans that despite facing many hiccups and are slower than expected have worked for some slum dwellers.

About white and Indian masters. This is coming from a country where people are not proud of being black and even segregate and admonish other Africans for having a dark complexion... Lol. Majority of large companies in Nigeria have a lot of foreign shareholding including their iconic banks. Majority of construction projects in Nigeria like most developing African countries are by the Chinese but Nigeria is very quick to admonish Kenya when we have any debt or chinese funded operation :/ The level of hypocrisy is appaling

Misguided ambitions. Nigeria is exploring space technology yet it does not even have enough electrical power to provide 24hr electricity to any of it's residents
Nigeria is building a war ship at billions of naira but cannot tackle and finish the Boko Haram who of totally destroyed would lead to billions being injected into Nigeria by investors in the marginalized northern areas. If these billions were pumped into agriculture, such a green country with lots of rivers would stop importing basic necessities for its citizens e.g. Milk and other common produce.

Industrialization. Nigerians claim that their industries are the main reasons why they are lacking 24/7 power in their homes.. Lol. I mean what is the need for these industries if I am going to go home to a dark house on most nights.

Closing statements. Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa and the 5th largest in the world yet they cannot compare themselves with most of the top 10 oil producers in the world and majority of their refined oil is imported #sigh , Nigeria has the largest population in Africa(cheap labour) and hundreds of thousands of arable and fertile land but imports Extremely basic food products that can easily be grown, a country that admonishes other countries for accommodating people of other races while they practice the worst kind of racism I can think of, black on black racism, a country whose eyes are closed due to the fact that their big ignorant heads are too far up their asses to notice that their large GDP and a few rich men e.g. Dankote do not in any way show the success of their country if the common citizen still has no power, lives in a oil polluted environment(spills and smoke) and noise polluted environment due to generators, is more likely to die due to insecurity(Boko Haram in the northern states), is likely not to be paid in time even by a government employer(majority of the states have difficulty in paying workers on time). The ordinary citizen is also more likely to be out of a job(unemployment is at 13% and the recent 700000 applications for 500 Firs jobs is just a big shame). A country that struggles to finance a 20bn USD budget on a 500bn USD GDP is a joke of a country. I mean the Kenyan budget is 22bn USD for 45m Kenyans.

That said, in Kenya we also do have our problems and are working towards creating practical solutions(not a bunch of useless patents in some shelf) but the ability of Nigerians to ignore facts and official reports posted here just for national pride is just shocking and goes on to show the arrogant nature they are associated with or maybe a poor education system that would lead someone to disapprove UN reports and other official reports because they have never stepped out of their village or country

obaaderemi:
Yes,u are really learning here on nairaland though ur posts prove otherwise.and i think u are the one having sleepless nights quoting almost everyone here even when not mentioned.u stick out like a cockroach on a cake with ur childish tantrums and wailing.

ianSweet:
AfroCircus, Muafrika2, KenyanStar et al
Now i can see why Kenya atttacts so many tourists, seems like most of them just want to see what the largest slum (concentration of poverty) in Africa looks like.
With all the foreign aid, why are so many slums still in Nairobi?

ianSweet:
Gosh, i can't imagine Nigeria's capital city ABUJA, the largest planned modern city in Africa with over 3 million inhabitants with the kind of slums Nairobi has.

Nairobi's slums are even more famous than the main city itself, well that's not surprising considering the large size and numbers of the slums.

Kenyans really need to learn from Nigeria what it takes to build a capital city to meet world standards.
Even Lagos city, the largest city in Africa (with about 20 million people) had only One slum Makoko which has now been demolished, but Nairobi that is not up to one quarter of Lagos has the largest and highest number of slums. What an abyssmal shame!

The worst part of all these is that u find the Indians who milk Kenya's rescources in the wealthiest neighbourhoods while the black majority languish in these kinds of dejected neighbourhoods and the same colonial Indians will be the people to brainwash my black brothers that skin colour does not matter.

O ye black man, who has bewitched you like this?

naijalander:
Talk is cheap.