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Nowenuse:
This is beautiful, we know that the Coastal swahili, some Nilotic and Cushitic minorities in Kenya try their best to promote their cultures, but they are in a minority in Kenya!
What happened to other major ethnic groups like the Kikuyu, Luhya, Luo, Kalenjin and others?

In Nigeria, we have hundreds of ethnic groups and i can show you the advanced traditional attires and annual traditional festivals of each of these ethnic groups, one after the other.

We have developed cultures from our ancestral cultures unique to all Nigerians which no single ethnic groups in Nigeria can lay claim over.

Apart from that, you find our cultures in almost everything we do, from our music to our movies to news broadcasting, to parliamentary sittings, to international conferences, to our churches, to almost everything. Heck we still have our traditional rulers, kings, kingdoms in tact.

genieluv:
Lol, Loler, Lolest

Here's mine

Teacher : Class, who can give me an example of future tense used in a sentence?

Student : I sir, ....."Kenya will be the future of Africa".

Teacher : No dumb-head, that is not a future tense, it is a 'future impossible tense'

freshest4live:
This is good, and l've observed you Kenyans keep talking about this report, but note that it has more to do with policies from Government supporting innovations. The people who make this research focus more on the enabling environment for innovators and plans for innovation in the country. From the same report you can read this.....
Public policy plays a pivotal role in creating an enabling environment conducive to innovation. In the last two years, we have seen important activities around the GII in India like the formation of India’s high-level Task Force on Innovation and consultative exercises on both innovation policy and better innovation metrics,” said Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry.

The Islamic Republic of Iran (75th overall) excels in tertiary education, ranking second in the world in number of graduates in science and engineering. Tajikistan (94th) is first in the world in microfinance loans, while Kazakhstan (78th) ranks first globally in pupil‐teacher ratio and third in ease of protecting minority investors.

You can see that it has more to do with support for innovation and investors.
Not Downplaying your achievement which is great, just setting the records straight.

TayserMahiri:
We are on steroids as Nigerians love to say of their nation

TayserMahiri:
Steroids

chkil0:
havnt found any other source for this stats you have shared , (despite the fact that forecast growing dont mean better city ) , for exemple a city who produce a coconut in 2016 and 2 coconut in 2017 have a 100% ratio growth ! when a city who produce 20 billions dollar in a year and 20,1 billions next year have a grow of 0,5 % .

in another hand their is these stats for forcast growth african cities

MiddleDimension:
i know the difference between the two celebrations. remember Nigeria especially northern nigeria is also part of the islamic world.

yes, eid el fitr and eid el kabir (adah) are also called sallah in nigeria. so barka de sallah to you and everyone in north africa!

and an atheist in the islamic world?! i am wondering if you are open about your atheism? if you are open about it, how easy is life foe you there as ab atheist? if u look on the bbc's website, you will find a story of a nigeian in kano who was taken to the psychiatric hospital because he renounced islam and became an atheist. down here, people still have attitude to you if you say you are an atheist. i experienced this when i started being open about my atheism.

Fidha254:
Not strictly on topic..but related Ngelina was at the IPSTC to celebrate World Refugee Day.. And to advocate for peacekeepers to do more to protect violence against women during war in her capacity as unhcr ambassador... Damn, her face is like a picture

According to Department of State sources three American citizens were captured yesterday June 21st while trying to cross into South Sudan covertly without visas by SPLA forces near the city of Narus, a city sitting on a major traffic artery that acts as the predominant access point between South Sudan and Kenya.

The Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) began as a rebel force but is now the recognized military of an independent country. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) is the military wing of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).
The three Americans identified as William Wright-Martinovich, Craig Austin Lang and Alex Jared Zweifelholfer, have all served in the US Armed Forces in the past with two of them more recently seen fighting in the Ukrainian Civil War conflict with a local militia unit known as the right sector against Russian separatist forces.

At least two of them have very colorful pasts in regards to their military service despite their young age and maintained a very active social media presence as recent as late April 2017.
Alex Zwiefelhofer, 21 from Bloomer WI,was a Private First Class with 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division and he was declared AWOL and subsequently was placed on deserter status in October 2016 due to an unauthorized absence according to the 82nd Airborne Division PAO LTC Joe Buccino.

“The 82nd Airborne Division was made aware of the situation involving PFC Zwiefelhofer yesterday the 21st and is working with appropriate US authorities in the area to coordinate his return to military control” he added.
Craig Lang,27 from Ayden NC, is also a former U.S. Army soldier that drew national attention when two years ago drove from his base in Fort Bliss Texas nonstop to North Carolina with a car loaded with claymore mines and two M4 rifles after his pregnant wife sent him various videos of her having sex with other men. Once there he proceeded to mine the perimeter of her condominium with claymores and attempted to murder her.

He ended up serving only a few months of jail time and was released due to psychological/behavioral issues, and because according to him “the US Army knew that he had mental problems and did nothing to address them. I told my commanders repeatedly that I was going to murder her. The motherfuckers thought I was bluffing.” he said in July 2016 during an interview on a vice article featuring Americans fighting in the Ukrainian Civil War.
While in the Ukraine he fought with the right sector militia Right Sector a far-right Ukrainian nationalist political party that originated in November 2013 as a paramilitary confederation at the Euromaidan revolt in Kiev.

The last of the three, William Wright-Martinovich became a United States Marine in December 2012, Graduating from the Marine Corps recruiting depot in San Diego and with the E 2nd RTB Platoon 2109. Currently there are no information as to his service and is assumed to have ended under honorable conditions.
Where are they now

Earlier today control over the three American citizens was relinquished by the SPLA to the Kenyan national police and all three American citizens are currently held in the city of Kakuma and were moved today the 23rd to the capital of Nairobi pending turning over to US Embassy officials and repatriation.

It is unclear why they were traveling to South Sudan, a war-torn region without proper travel authorization or visas as required for all foreigners. Also of interest is that even though PFC Zwiefelhofer was on AWOL/deserter status his passport is not flagged and he was able to travel outside the United States to Europe, Ukraine, Turkey and now Kenya and South Sudan.
According to LTC Buccino “the 82nd Airborne is in the process of gathering all the facts and do not have answers to these questions at this time.”

Henry240:
Uganda

genieluv:
Holly about the Kenyans not promoting their african cultures in the media or entertainment, i think this is quite true.

***Since i've been on this thread n all the pages i checked back, i have seen nothing of such from them. Instead they try to criticize anyone posting cultural related stuffs. As if we are Europeans. It's unfortunate on their parts i think.

Shaytun:
No its not.

This is the longest thread on nairaland(more than 2000 pages.)

https://www.nairaland.com/415620/strongest-military-africa