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“We are adopting a more elaborate bus transit system than what we saw in Dar es Salaam. We noted some weaknesses in the system such as tardiness in bus arrivals and departures,” said Namata CEO James Ng’ang’a.


http://cceonlinenews.com/2018/05/18/kenya-inspired-by-bogota-bus-rapid-transit-model-in-city-decongestion/

I highlighted this before.For your information,we will be settling for Bogota City BRT model!
http://cceonlinenews.com/2018/05/18/kenya-inspired-by-bogota-bus-rapid-transit-model-in-city-decongestion/

Is it an achievement when Kenyan's go to Tanzania for a study tour? We studied BRT models of many cities and the Colombia one was chosen above all!

Kazikazi:
Jeolous jeolous jeolous
OK.come see our BRT!

Nothing much to see here!

Kazikazi:
Tanzania's tourism is not all about climbing Kilimanjaro, or touring our world's famous game parks like Serengeti,and its not all about beautiful Zanzibar.
Some fellows just love to walk around in this peaceful,non tribalist,and greatly blessed nation

And we have the best view of it from Amboseli!

mtisTheQubit:
An we donated Mt Kilimanjaro to Kazikazi brothers to stop them throwing tantrums

We have Mt Kenya which is the second highest in Africa and sits just near the equator with snow capped peaks.We don't have a shortage of mountains yet!

MasterKrest:
Awesome,Kenyans will be like,we can create our own in Nairobi,illiteracy dey work them���

The idiocy intensifies!

What is Abuja?

MasterKrest:
Even with the disturbing and mind-blowing amount of ever increasing slums with it's sheer size and capacity, Nairobi is still better than Accra,not to talk of Abuja

Mandela is an urban architect !

mtisTheQubit:
why bring Nelson Mandela in the discussion sir ?

Architecture? Show me one Abuja building I'll admire

samsobo24:
I wouldn't want to explain serene and modern to a Kenya

Do you think serenity is about planting trees and Forest, I bet you're thinking simply because you haven't seen Abuja

Which city has more Architectural buildings than Abuja. Note,this isn't about having tall buildings been done due to FDI.
Check the regular Estates and buildings, if Nairobi will compete with Abuja or Lagos, let it develop more of its landmass and then clear 60% of the slums


A random town or small city in Abuja is well developed with wide roads and superb infrastructure.

Abuja's city centre is too superb

Check it out and don't be deluded

Nairobi beats Abuja for Skyscrapers
Abuja's parks and recreational centres are everywhere, every area has a class according to its environs



Nairobi is miles ahead of Accra in Serenity and development


Nelson Mandela testified to Abuja being a world class city

Lot's of gold bars!

vaxx:
obuasi gold minning Ghana

How green is Nairobi?

Serene and modern?

Nairobi says hi!

samsobo24:
My point


Why would a Ghanian say Accra is better than Abuja,very ridiculous i must say

Abuja is arguably the most serene and most modern African city ever.Looking at Abuja's super wide roads with trees lined up is enough

Accra is on the same league with PH city, Accra is slightly developed than PH

I can argue this all day

The true Pan-Africans will sign the treaty!

rvp2018:
Indeed. That makes it the 5th Nation - after Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa. We need 15 more countries to make AFCTA a reality. I don't understand why the rest are hesitating. Nigeria should be amongst the first ones - the GIANTs of Africa.

Actually a lot more countries have since ratified. I can count about 16. If we add Ethiopia then we still need about 3 countries to make Africa free trade a reality. We need to follow with free movement of people or labour. We need to make Africa one seamless region.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/AfricanContinentalFreeTradeArea.svg/1024px-AfricanContinentalFreeTradeArea.svg.png

The Swahili people of Lamu

Babes and children!

Render versus the reality on the ground! You gotta love engineering! Lamu,Kenya

Lamu and the Lapset project

The first three berths of the Lamu Port were to opened by July but that won't happen.December 2019 is a more realistic date!

More of Lamu,Kenya

Lamu Town,Kenya-A 14 th Century old town!

Sheheena apartments-Mombasa Kenya

The Kenyan forces with the Jordanian army in Jordan!

The Kenya defenses training at the Laikipia base.At Laikipia temperatures easily reach 40 degrees!

This isn't training for the weak. Being a soldier is a tough affair!

They are trained at Laikipia to climatise before being taken to Somalia!

Turbi-Moyale-Isiolo Road-Northern Kenya

Where are the Subaru fanatics?

Roading the ASALS!(Arid and semi arid lands)

Project status-in progress

You may invest in roads,rails and other big money projects that consume alot of cement and steel but still won't reach your goals if you don't invest in your people. Education, security,food,healthcare and other critical people based developments are great enablers of a country's vision. Development needs of a country should be balanced!

The fact that education takes the biggest share of the budget makes me happy. This will soon pay off. Matching resource based economies and going neck to neck with them in some economic indicators is mostly thanks to our investment in human capital. Development shouldn't be all about asphalt (roads), we should invest in our people so as to kick out ignorance from them.

TayserMahri:
Wisdom!

What could we possibly say about the dismal Nigerian figures except facepalm!!! No wonder the high illiteracy in the land of oil and suya.

I can be partly right or wrong. That was just my perspective of how I see it.

Justnotyou:
Bantu lives weren't lacking challenges that's why half the continent is marked by their presence, also the only reason you believe they didn't develop anything is due to their illiteracy just like much of the people living in Africa including the capoids/bushmen/Khoisan as they mostly use(d) oral history to pass on their advancements which is still a very effective way of teaching that's why we use it in our modern schools through teachers & lectures but the problem with it is any disturbances to the system wrecks it all apart & colonialism, tribalism, tropical illnesses, immigration, slavery didn't do much to help Africans out.

The environment truly made us who we are but diversity isn't to blame for our continental average low IQ, actually people who were cut off from the rest of humanity are worse off, just look at the Indian sentinels but I understand what you mean.

This might actually support quite a fast moving train,the purpose of the bridges and embankments is mostly in cutting the gradient.With a raised and flat platform with less curves,the train wouldn't need 'to climb' when the topography of a place is hilly.The functions of the rail too will weigh on,a passenger dedicated rail would be fast,a cargo dedicated rail wouldn't be so fast.For a rail dedicated for both passenger and cargo,many factors would have to be considered as the number of trips,signaling stations,distance of the railway and the rolling stock specifications among many other factors will weigh on the speeds!

PROVERBZ:
who knows a thing or two about trains ?? do those really fast trains require a different type of track or will this type be good enough ??

Quite possible but not wholly possible? Fair enough

As they say-Necessity is the mother of invention. The Bantu who lived in the African Savannah was quite comfortable with life,this is to say that he didn't need much innovations to better aspects of his/her life.Food was plentiful in the Savannah-he didn't think much about inventions such as irrigation to add more food stock.The weather was quite favorable-the need to build strong weather proof houses wasn't a concern,there was no snow or desert storms.There was no need for hot showers,no heating technology was needed .It is this kind of life that made us not think 'outside the box'

The environment made us who we are.We were also socialists in nature and religious.When Europeans separated the church from the statehood,they greatly made gains in science and tech.Read about the renaissance.In Europe we had the royal families and the noble men,educated men and the common men.This structure made them more capitalistic that they even thought of conquering distant lands to add more into their wants.

Africans couldn't come up with world changing ideas because of our diversity.We are so diverse.Our continent was so large.How could we communicate to even effectively share ideas in this large continent or even move about.In Africa,you'll have a small country like Kenya with 42 tribes,in UK you'll have the English,Scottish,the Irish and who else?

It is more like the tower of Babel,everyone speaks differently so that renders communication impossible! THE SHEER SIZE OF THE CONTINENT AND OUR DIVERSITY ARE ONE OF THE MAJOR FACTORS THAT MADE US LESS DEVELOPED IN TECHNOLOGY THAN EUROPEANS. We only have Eight major linguistic groups in Europe,large tribes enjoy large advantages.A piece of information that landed in Greece,would quickly reach the English group.You couldn't have this happening in Africa! Because this good innovation would have to bypass several languages and massive distances.

There are so many factors that make us have this 'low IQ' that everyone is talking about.However, you might say that you are more 'intelligent' than a bushman or a Khoisan but you probably won't survive if you were dropped inside the Kalahari or the Amazon simply because you aren't intelligent enough to survive in such an environment! You might have to rethink what intelligence really means and how to measure it effectively!

Justnotyou:
The concept is not "bull crap" & IQ tests are relative so I agree that most of them aren't up to standards but believe me, measuring intelligence is quite possible my friend.

An average Kenyan primary school kid knows what a tribe is and what an ethnic group is!

tylann:
Maybe they don't know the difference

I'm not talking of tribes! Someone help this fella!

samsobo24:
About 300 tribes

We have nilotes,cushites,bantus and also semites.How many groups do you have? Don't just look on the sheer number of tribes!

samsobo24:
You giving excuses

Kenya's livelihood can never be as that of Nigeria even despite inadequate power.
That's the truth

I doubt if Kenya is more ethnically diverse than.Nigeria

I bet you don't know the no of ethnic groups we have

Our welders are now trained,it's a shame we will no longer seek welders from Nigeria anymore!

But Ibrahimanis could teach us how to 'skelewu'

rvp20182:
Exactly.Maybe Nollywood and afropop music.Such a shame for an English speaking giant with so much oil.The best we ever did we're hire their welders in oil pipeline.. downstream.

You learn from all.We will mix the best practices from the two.The collaboration focuses on helping Kenya achieving UHC in three areas -- insurance and financing, prioritising benefits packages and technology assessment, and human resource development.

Yeah,we can partner Thailand in the airline industry,tourism,agriculture,modeling and such stuff!

rvp20182:
Cuba please.Thailand can teach us rice and tourism