NairobiWalker:


Nairobi is cosmopolitan. However Maasais live to its South, Kambas to the East and Kikuyus to the North West.

Nowenuse:


You couldn't be more correct genie.

I love hearing Tanzanians when they speak or sing swahili, they just have this appeal and serious 'nativization' towards the language.

Kenyans on the other hand just speak rubbish. Most Kenyan songs are in English, while Tanzanians sing entire musics without adding a word of English.

Where is Kazikazi. You guys have to send a national warning to Kenya to tell them to stop speaking swahili, they bastardize the language and makes it look unnapealing.

Ibrahimanis:

Haba Bros, you too wicked

Ibrahimanis:
Abuja

rvp20183:
This baby will tower above Africa like a Burj Khalif. Just imagine 100m taller than anything you see now.

genieluv:


Hahaha, NairobiWalker, you can see that it's your Kenyan women who are more fascinated by Nigerian men.

***** To be honest, Nigerian women are not really fascinated by other African men. If a Nigerian lady does not marry a Nigerian, we go for whites.
Hardly will you see a Nigerian lady with a Cameroonian, Kenyan or South African man. Even Ghanaian is difficult.

>>>> Nigerian women have noticed that no other African men work so hard and spend so much money on them like Nigerian men. Other African men also seem very local before our eyes. To be sincere, we tend to be materialistic. (mind you, I do not really approve of this mentality. I personally find other African men attractive because I'm more open-minded, but as for marriage, hmm I doubt I could marry another African . No African identity is worth trading for my Nigerian identity).

Just for the records, the culture of materialism started from southern Nigeria. Hausa fulani educated women are also very materialistic.
***** We central Nigerian women are the least materialistic of all. Materialism was zero in our cultures.
This even makes Southern guys judge our wome as being very cheap
~~However, this is now gradually being destroyed as our own women intermix with southern & hausa fulani women.

NairobiWalker:


Swahili would have still existed as Kingozi without Arab influence. See.....

Swahili is an African language that borrowed words from Arabic.

Pidgin is English language that borrows from African languages.

There's a difference.

For the record, African bantus like Zulus for instance who've spoken Swahili would understand a sizeable percentage of Swahili. Meanwhile an Arab who doesn't speak Swahili would find it as foreign as you.

rvp20183:
Interesting. Nairobi pre-eminence as largest city in Africa is on. I am not talking slumpolis like lagos or kinshahasa..but competitor against Joburg & Cairo.

rvp20183:
I am not sure who was ranking cities in 9th century.Mombasa is a very ancient city. It clearly has been a city for more than 1,000 years. Was kenya capital for the first few years.

This is Mombasa 15th Century fort built by Portugues to guard the town against Arabs.

rvp20183:
As long as we don't use Nigeria Stats Office generated GDP - I am pretty sure Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru and Eldoret will stand as cities worth their name.

rvp20183:
Abuja is just a federal gov town - with gov offices! It can never beat Mombasa - port city - tourist/resort city - industrial city - regional & gov office city.





You mean Mombasa beats Pretoria because of these features?

forgiveness:

We are not in the 9th century but rather in the 21st century.
Come back when Mombasa is considered as a city or ranked among towns.

genieluv:


Do you have to visit the US, India or China for you to have an idea of how these people speak? Smh.

forgiveness:

We are not in the 9th century but rather in the 21st century.
Come back when Mombasa is considered as a city or ranked among towns.

Nowenuse:


Of course not, we use the world bank and IMF statistics which definitely support the Nigerian statistics

How many industries are in Mombasa, Kisumu & Nakuru?

The number of industries in Port harcourt, Kano, Kaduna, Ibadan, Onitsha and many other Nigerian cities are highly intimidating.

Nigeria has financial city centers all over the country and not just small so called cities with 1 or 2 highrises of a few hundred thousand people with no financial backbone!

Nairobi is the only financial center in the whole of Kenya!

rvp20183:
And none has ever had theirs rejected. Nigeria GDP is totally cooked. We have dealt with this. They claim to have 81B dollars worth of agricluture. That is just impossible. That would put their agri GDP higher than Brazil. South Africa Agri GDP is 7B dollars. Just imagine that.

Before the re-basing - Nigeria GDP was 150B - I think if this honest mistake - then they probably choose the "wrong" year to rebase - 2014 - Nigeria economy was booming with oil at 100 dollars a barrel - but this is more about DODGY DATA - For example the agricluture data - how do they collate the data about what they produced when Fed Min of Agricluture was quoting Indimulli?

Nigeria GDP is less than Algeria - less than 200B dollars - with about 1/3 of that from Oil.

genieluv:


Hahahaha,

(In Travis Scott's voice) Stop tryna be God..... That's not who you are ....

rvp20183:
Mombasa village - Mombasa is of course a city dumbo.

kikuyu1:


Sometimes it's easier to give them their victories however false and child-like!

rvp20183:
Abuja is just a federal gov town - with gov offices! It can never beat Mombasa - port city - tourist/resort city - industrial city - regional & gov office city.

genieluv:


Ok, interesting.
**** So, apart from Swahili & English, which language is most likely to be heard on the streets of Nairobi?

Which ethnicity dominates local politics in Nairobi county?

You seem to have omitted my question on Kisumu.

Ibrahimanis:

How did you know non have been rejected, you think they will announce it if it were rejected?

Oil does not and have not influenced Nigerian GDP, contribution of oil to Nigerian GDP was and still is negligible. Banking, services, agriculture, Telecommunication, nollywood are the main contributors to Nigerian GDP in 2014, and they are still the major contributors today.

About Nigerian agricultural sector being bigger than that of brazil, it's not rocket science, Brazil with 2trillion economy has an agric sector 5.5pct, Nigeria with 400b economy has an agric sector 20.1pct, calculate 5.5pct of 2trillion for brazil and 20.1pct of 400b for Nigeria and you have your answer

Ibrahimanis:

Abuja is just an administrative capital, which is why it is shameful that it's even giving Mombasa a run for it's money. And Mombasa has an advantage of being a waterfront, you can build huts on waterfront and they will still look beautiful.

genieluv:


Kingozi wouldn't have enjoyed lingua franca status without Arab mobilization, it would have remained as one of the native languages of the coast spoken by only a handful of people.

***** Yes you are correct that Swahili is still a Bantu language, just that it would never never have become widespread as it is without the Arab involvement.

>>>> If there is any language that should be praised in Africa for being a naturally spread lingua franca, it should Hausa.
No foreigners were involved in the spread of Hausa in any way, yet it has about 100 million non native speakers.

NairobiWalker:


We don't get fascinated with Nigerian women either so it's kinda mutual - or maybe you just don't get seduced by other African men because they don't find you attractive reason why there aren't many of you marrying them.

Honestly, if you ask a Kenyan man's opinion of Nigerian women, he'll tell you they look like men. Unlike most East African women who have the hourglass figure and narrow faces, most Nigerian women have wide shoulders narrow hips and wide faces which we find so masculine.

rvp20183:
Maybe you can show us one with qualified acceptance. Nigeria would be a perfect candidate. IMF offers technical assistance but how you use it is upto you.

Oil is you only true industry. That is why you catch recession when oil prices drop.

As for services sector - we have gone thro it sector to sector - and we have compared to kenya - at best your service industry is twice kenya - and at times even less than kenya. Our GDP is 90B dollars. Your's right now has come down to 350B or so...but in reality it should be about twice kenya plus OIL.

You must be kidding when you talk about Brazil GDP. Nigeria economy is simple. It export crude oil and import food & refined oil. It second or first importer of wheat, rice and name it.

I'll ignore your ignorance on brazil agri - you agri is not even at kenya or south africa level - maybe you do really good with yams, cassava and such tubers - but outside that - you are nothing.

NairobiWalker:


We don't get fascinated with Nigerian women either so it's kinda mutual - or maybe you just don't get seduced by other African men because they don't find you attractive reason why there aren't many of you marrying them.

Honestly, if you ask a Kenyan man's opinion of Nigerian women, he'll tell you they look like men. Unlike most East African women who have the hourglass figure and narrow faces, most Nigerian women have wide shoulders narrow hips and wide faces which we find so masculine.

If you're so hardworking then why are you poor? Nigeria has the largest number of poor people in the world and a higher percentage of people living below the poverty line than Kenya. You can't boast of being hardworking and have nothing to show for it.

About spoiling women, maybe that's why you're poor. There's a thin line between treating your woman right a just being a fool. Like I told your brother Naijalander, you'll find 5 Nigerians here in Nairobi sharing a bedsitter (a bedsitter is a self contained one-room house - I don't know how you call it in Nigeria) yet the same fools will walk into a club and spend all their money on strange women they don't even know. You wonder, why can't these people use the few coins on affording a better life for themselves - like move in a better bigger house? There's nothing romantic about that, it's just foolishness that will eventually see you die a poor man. No Kenyan or South African man can entertain such nonsense.


Materialism is killing your society. Nothing to be proud of. I am afraid though it's finding it's way into Kenyan women but based on what you guys say about Nigerian women and the attitude I observe amongst Nigerians here, yours is worse.

abbeg:
I just came across this topic and I have to confirm it Kenya is better than Nigeria but not in all aspects.yes Kenya is finer and richer but one thing Nigeria beats Kenya and Africa in general is entertainment.I have to say it,other African countries are EXTREMELY DRY when it comes to entertainment (especially SA)and Nigeria seems to use this to be one step ahead of them.In my opinion the only good entertainer outside naija is nasty c and maybe Trevor Noah(but he is whitewashed and so doesn't count)apart from that the rest of Africa isn't something to write home about.Even individual Nigerians are funnier than there African counterparts (read S.A. joke you will understand).The time I watched 'you got got S.A. 'I felt like getting up,burning my tv, and cleansing my brain of such dryness.So to cut things short if naija should become dry we are doomed cos most of our 'competition' is league's ahead of us.Simple.

abbeg:
I just came across this topic and I have to confirm it Kenya is better than Nigeria but not in all aspects.yes Kenya is finer and richer but one thing Nigeria beats Kenya and Africa in general is entertainment.I have to say it,other African countries are EXTREMELY DRY when it comes to entertainment (especially SA)and Nigeria seems to use this to be one step ahead of them.In my opinion the only good entertainer outside naija is nasty c and maybe Trevor Noah(but he is whitewashed and so doesn't count)apart from that the rest of Africa isn't something to write home about.Even individual Nigerians are funnier than there African counterparts (read S.A. joke you will understand).The time I watched 'you got got S.A. 'I felt like getting up,burning my tv, and cleansing my brain of such dryness.So to cut things short if naija should become dry we are doomed cos most of our 'competition' is league's ahead of us.Simple.