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Until Africa have selfless brilliant and great leaders like Mandela, Mboya and Sankara - we will not go anywhere.
Botwansa Seretse Khama - who set his country - from bottom to now nearly top in Africa.
Recently I am great admirer of Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and Rwanda's Paul Kagame - despite lacking democratic credentials - their singular focus on uplift their people - have turned almost desperate situations into one of triumph.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOVsDOG6WWw

Hueman:
Thomas sankara was a socialist

In Kenya Africa heroes recognized at least by being named after something
1) Nkrumah - there are two roads - one in Nairobi and Mombasa.
2) Haile Sellaiseh - one major road in Nairobi is named after him
3) Julius Nyerere - one road in Nairobi named after him
4) Patrice Lumumba institute - now Pan African university college.
5) Sankara hotel in Nairobi - Not sure why they chose the name
6) Kenneth Kaunda street - Named after Zambia 1st president

But pan-african heroes of independence definitely
1) Kwame
2) Haile
3) Mandela.
4) Nyerere
5) Maybe Jomo Kenyatta...otherwise Mboya should be in there.
Who'd come top...

Nearly all of them came short - except Mandela and my hero Tom Mboya.
Kwame - became a disaster as president.
Nyerere - similarly went for communism and left his country bankrupt.
Kenyatta - went on unprecedented land grab - taking 0.5m acres for himself.
Haile - messed up Ethiopia - he was overthrown in revolution.

As for Nigeria.

Nigeria maybe Obasanjao or Sani Abacha - the Butcher of Nigeria - are well known. They kept replacing one military leader with another...people lost count.

The only real Africa heroes as we speak today
1) Nelson Mandela - it almost a sacrilege to put Nelson Mandela with anyone in that list.
2) Tom Mboya
3) Thomas Sankara

The rest fell short of glory...maybe Nyerere deserve to be no 4 - the rest became very corrupt self-serving mofo.

Julius Nyerere genuinely made a wrong bet on communism, admitted failure and resigned. He died with one bicycle and one house despite being president for many years.

Tanzania remain peaceful, avoided coups and almost has defeated tribalism because Julius Nyerere truly was inspirational leader. His only mistake was intellectually betting on the wrong economic policy.

Unlike Ghana that lifted Nairobi of 80s and set itself for lofty dream to be Aid free in 2050!! - Kenya Vision 2030 unveiled in 2005 or about - had this picture

https://www.mfa.gov.cn/zflt/eng/zfgx/jmhz/W020100504488557590310.jpg
An artistic impression of Nairobi as it will look by the year 2030.

And look like we have achieved it

Nairobi continues to scale the heights.

Precisely. He is just a Igbo bot who think IBO witch doctor can ever wash the shoes of Tom Mboya.

Gichwawa254:
nigga you don't know what you talking about comparing an intellectual giant Tom Mboya with an Nigerian fantastically dimwit IBO witchdoctor who is known only for Biafra war adventures, to like him is OK but comparing him to Mboya is an insult to memories of his fellow greats like Martin Luther King ,Sankara ,Malcolm X ,Lumumba who were killed n died for Africa liberation.
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Strawman arguments. When did I say Nkrumah didnt know Azikiwe. I simply said Nkrumah is well known - Azikiwe NO. He is just an ordinary failed Nigerian politician. Nothing more.

Now if you dont know Mboya - who achieved great feat - in his 20s - and then you dont know anything.

Mboya lead pan-africa movement - worked for release of Mandela, name it it, black civil rights, etc. Who created labour movement in Africa - Tom Mboya.

Azikiwe can never wash Mboya shoes - even if Mboya life was cut short in 30s.

https://www.ruskin.ac.uk/story/tom-mboya/

Abohboy:
You said Nkrumah didn't know Azikiwe I told you they went to Uni together in America and were good friends you deflected you then moved on to say Azikiwe wasn't known outside of Nigeria so I showed you the university hall in America named after him and you deflected again why's that? Nobody knows Mboya unless they studied Kenya but when it comes to pan africanism and radical movements in Africa Zikism is mentioned among the list of ideologies and political movements it's a fact there's no debate Azikiwe is more known and more recognizable then Mobya ever was and ever will be.

He is a nobody outside Nigeria. Died 91 having not achieved what Mboya achieved in 20s.

Tom Mboya made 1960 Times headline
https://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1960/1101600307_400.jpg
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,894716-2,00.html


Kenya's Tom Mboya, 29, who used to be courted only by English left-wingers, now holds forth suavely as honor guest in the private dining rooms of London's largest banks and casually keeps a colonial governor waiting while he takes a shower.

Twenty years ago, handsome Tom Mboya was just another barefoot child in the untamed highlands of East Africa, where his people had only recently discovered the uses of the wheel. He was born to illiterate parents on the dried cow-dung floor of a grass-roofed hut on the sisal (hemp) estate of Sir William Northrup McMillan, who, a local yarn has it, won his 34,000 acres of Kenya highlands with a throw of the dice in Nairobi's Norfolk Hotel bar.

Tom Mboya has come a long way from his origins, but he remembers them and their rigid social order: at the bottom were the African workers, earning $3 a month in the sisal fields; then came the Indian shopkeeper, who sold them kerchiefs, trinkets and tobacco; on top were the few whites around.

"Do not set yourself against the white man," warned Tom Mboya's father, a sober, hard-working Jaluo tribesman who was the African headman at the farm's sisal-processing plant. "He is too powerful, and you cannot change him." But Tom Mboya recalls how riled he was at the sight of the stern estate manager, whom the Africans in fear called Bwana Kiboko—the boss who carries the hippo-skin whip.

Abohboy:
Azikiwe went to the same school as Nkrumah they were best friends so stfu

Cholera epidemic in 21st century

Very active inter-community transmission in Nigeria, specifically in Bauchi, and Kano states, which have recorded 2,535 cases and 18 deaths (CFR 0.7%), and 572 cases including 19 (CFR 3.3%) deaths respectively in the last two weeks.

In total Nigeria has 18 states in epidemic out of 36 states in the country, with 3,650 cases and 47 total deaths in the last two weeks. A total of 27.8% of the cases since the beginning of the year are children aged 5 to 14.

theTranscriber:
How does cholera connect to Yoruba wanting seccesion?

You need a check up ASAP
The cholera outbreak will die soon

No very contagious disease lasts more than 6 months in Nigeria
Whether Ebola,lasaa,cholera,covid

It might even be a government gimmick to take more loans

First ride on Nairobi elevated expressway

State House Chief of Staff @NziokaWaita joins the list of first Kenyans to drive on elevated Nairobi Expressway.

📹: @NziokaWaita pic.twitter.com/5VCEKgOARD

— Grown Gambino (@DMwangi_) September 29, 2021

Mboya was waaaaaay ahead of his time. In almost all aspect. He had almost zero tribal bone in his body - his vision was bigger than any tribalism or racism. He was elected Mp in Nairobi where Kikuyus were 80 percent - and not his Luo(he was actually Abasuba).

Tom Mboya on Airlifted of 800 africans to best US universities in 1950s- initially for Kenyans - but later adding Ug, TZ, Malawi, Zambians and others

When Mboya failed to get US assistance - he then approached the US Senator John F kennedy (not president then) - to have his family foundation funds the airlift.

Nearly all the 800 would later return to Africa - to work for the public sector


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKS-xBrSE48


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v18hSYOqJik

kikuyu1:
All too often we project our wants upon our leaders investing them with non extant attributes and qualities. Then when we're robbed blind we're shocked and disappointed!
Mboya, however is the president we SHOULD have had! We'll not see his insights, passion, oratory and leadership this lifetime.

Usual diarhoea

Just30:
And yet we have more taxpayers than your country as well as more businesses registered than your country and it lazy people who are not enterprising.

Hence the high unemployment in your country.

Go and sleep kiddo, you dont know much

You do not have any tax base to talk about. Your country is one sea of informal business.

Just30:
All taxpayers in Ghana get rebates for children school fees from GRA as long as they have a depend,,

That is how wonderful our tax system is.... our focus is more on indirect taxes which we consider a fairer way to tax everyone rather.

Most Ghanaians have also come out of poverty because of this..

Kenya need to learn so that it doesn't keep making more kenyans poor.

If there is little profit - chinese would not be busy mining your forests.

Just30:
China has almost 4000 rich gold mines.

China is the largest gold mining country in the world..


There is very little profit in gold mining

China is largest gold trader - and yet they have no gold mine. All from Ghana and such Africa countries. Dubai alone receives 15B dollars of gold every year from Africa that is not reflected in official documents. China does even more.

Just30:
All of Ghana gold money is being invested in Large industries from the Lithium industry to Iron and steel and Aluminium.


You need to find somewhere else for where those money come from.
Let me give you a clue... it is Mostly loans.

And since occupancy ratio is less than 10%.... it is a bubble waiting to crash.

They must pay in peanuts and grass cutter their taxes. If you remove oil and etc....it's about Rwanda level -5B dollars.

Just30:
There are 14 million tax payers in Ghana and out of that, 7 million file their tax returns.

Chinese are bringing Ghana gold to invest in Kenya. See this 1B dollar investment they just gave us for nothing.

Just those two investment from China worth 1B dollars plus.

This is free - your gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUCIb3g11Q4

This too is free - your gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zDoLQmvSIk

Just30:
You are one of Africa what?

When they talk about democracy in Africa, Kenya is only mentioned with war-torn countries.

Who needs respect froM a hungry man?
Hungry men are usually at the mercy of men with enough, typically Ghanaians..


The Chinese have overrun your country and is making kenyans poorer and poorer by the day..

You dumb politicians keep awarding all the contracts in your country to them, since you guys dont have enough brain cells to create construction companies.

Tell me how many tax returns are filled by poor Ghanians.

Just30:
Unfortunately there are less than 1 million registered business in Kenya

Kenyatta is retiring in less than one year. We are one Africa longest democracy. You have more military history than democracy.

When you send Shaolin gang back to China - I will start to give you a tweenie little respect.

Just30:
Yes we have in smaller quantities..


And all of that has already created a miracle in the life of Ghanaians...

Seems Kenya has been praying for some miracle but unfortunately it has the greedy kenyatta who has stolen all the lands including your oil lands ..

Go sack him first and add the Indians and Chinese who have been looting you country since prehistoric times.

Your total tax returns I doubt even reach one million.

Kenya total tax returns 5.5m - of a total 6.1m. I think only South Africa is ahead in Sub- Sahara.

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has reported that more than 5.5 million taxpayers filed their tax returns by the midnight June 30 deadline, reflecting a 19 per cent growth from last year.

Some 4.4 million filed returns in 2020. Taxpayers file returns for the previous year, with the filing period running from January 1 to June 30.

The number of taxpayers using iTax has been growing over the past few years, rising from 3.6 million in 2019 to 4.4 million in 2020 and 2021's 5.5 million.

But KRA still reports that some 600,000 of the 6.1 million taxpayers registered on iTax failed to file, even as it added the number of last-minute filers was down this year.

Just30:
With all business registrations in Ghana, you have to file a tax return and get a rebate.


Unfortunately, Kenya does not have as many registered businesses as Ghana.

You have produced gold since 13th century - if you're hoping for miracle it wont happen. Countries that are somewhere in Africa - Mauritus, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, few island like Seycheles and of course Magreb.

1st miracle is to send Chinese gang away.

Just30:
If Ghana was producing that much gold, the land will be completely finished.


Unfortunately, Ghana only recently overtook SA in production.



In anything developmental, the ranks go like this

SA or EGYPT and then Ghana.

Kenya always find itself far below.

Good luck bringing your country out of the mess.

There are two types of registration
1) Business license for informal business - you pay maybe 10-100 dollars a year to operate - you do not file tax returns.
2) Proper business or company - with all the whistles and bells- you need to file taxes, articles of associaiton, legal fees.

You dont come near kenya in either. The first is informal sector. The 2nd is private sector.

Just30:
I guess companies are not businesses in your country...


Good you've accepted defeat and started throwing tantrums.

Anyway, how does a registered business that pays tax and informal business?
Do I need to teach you what an informal business is?

It criminal enterprises - breeding more criminals than the world can handle - nearly every country - has to deal with nigerian criminals as their top security challenge. Kenya we are spending almost 10M dollars annually to deport them. They fly back through Tanzania and Uganda - enter through smuggling routes. Now we just send them to prison.

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
To put it in one word it is known as Criminal worshipping

When China stop smuggling 8B - more than official 7B - worth of Gold - come and talk. If you managed Gold - you'd be like South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. Clearly you're not. You cannot use population as an excuse.

Just30:
Gold is well managed here and has made a lot of Ghanaians successful and taken them out of poverty..

Zombie, first learn to manage your lands so that they dont end up in foreign hands..


Ghana is one of only 2 African countries that produce Active pharmaceutical ingredients

Number of registered business - in an informal zoo like Ghana - like seriously.

Maybe number of registered small time informal business.

Definitely when it come to companies - you aint go nothing

Kenya register annually now close to 150,000 companies - not you informal business get a business licence to operate on a street corner.

https://brs.go.ke/statistics-2021.php

Just30:
The average IQ of a Ghanaian is twice that of a Kenyan...

This is evident in the fact that Ghanaians own the strategic sectors of it economy while Kenyans cant rap their heads on how to start.

Ghanaians are ore enterprising than Kenyans and it is evident in the number of registered businesses in both countries.

What is terrible - almost every Igbo I have met - wants to secede. They are very unhappy with Nigeria. Only one I have met doesnt care either way. The rest hold tightly to their Biafra flags and dreams.

Hold a referendum - and let them leave. Every human has a right to secede from a country that is clearly not working for them - where they are killed and hunted like wild dogs by Islamic Northerners.

Sudan let go of South Sudan - and the world did not die.

Roan77:
Lmao, Kenyans, I really weep for your educational systems, this is terrible.
Let all agree your parents money spent for your educations are waste, they should go and ask for a refund.

Manage GOLD first before you can rise above BONOBO level.

Just30:
The average IQ of a Ghanaian is twice that of a Kenyan...

This is evident in the fact that Ghanaians own the strategic sectors of it economy while Kenyans cant rap their heads on how to start.

Ghanaians are ore enterprising than Kenyans and it is evident in the number of registered businesses in both countries.

Azikiwe was a spokesman for Biafra and advised its leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, during the Biafran War (1967–1970). The betrayed his people (He switched his allegiance back to Nigeria during the war, and appealed to Ojukwu to end the war in pamphlets and interviews)

What is hell is wrong with West Africa education?

The exam itself is just hilarious.

All of you need to be re-schooled. I think average year 7 kid in Kenya knows more African history than most of you.

Roan77:
We all have concluded that you have empty brain, spend more time in reading and making research before you spew rubbish, you are embarrassing, and very ignorant.
Don't quote about Nigeria again, if you don't know anything, or better still, feel free to ask questions, before quoting.
How is Azikiwe a Biafran? Do you really know the man called Azikiwe?

What are 5 million Nigerians doing in Ghana - if not informal retail, transport and such. These Ghanians have to be most lazy un-enterpising people to see such a big influx. Their very LOW IQ is self-manifested in this forum. All they do is engaged in echo chamber of liking each other dense post - like it counts for anything. Deadly mix - at least Somalis though un-educated are very enterprising. These onces are almost bonobos for real.

Roan77:
Yeah I saw it too, and that's the first time I'm seeing that, throughout my 6 years stay in Ghana, I have never encountered or heard of a Nigerian driving taxi in Ghana, it's very rare, a Nigerian can buy a car,and hand it over to a Ghanaian to start a taxi business, and he will be paying him salary after balance.

You wish I was a rat so you can have me for dinner - grass cutter.

vaxx:
Your total income on pharmaceutical product spells it out. You are a small rat .

Once again - for umpteenth time - respond with link - of some empirical data - not your written diarhohea.

Just30:
In 2021 and you are still referring to something from 2005



You are really desperate

Its a know fact that your country does not produce much pharmaceuticals..

IN Ghana, each manufacturer you will pick is doing more than 600 different products..
Kenya needs to learn both the manufacturing end and the dispensary end of the pharmaceutical industry..

Countries that really manufacture drugs in Africa - are few - Ghana first learn to dispense drugs - before you can make drugs - and then syringes like Nigeria - Kenya was doing all that maybe 40yrs ago.

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/september-2020/how-africa-can-manufacture-meet-its-own-pharmaceutical-needs

Although pharmaceutical products are currently manufactured in countries such as South Africa, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt, as a whole Africa currently imports more than 80 per cent of its pharmaceutical and medical consumables. It is unsustainable.


Another study

In 2005, a World Bank study revealed that South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe had demonstrated the
industrial capacity for producing medicine for export or domestic consumption in the face of the diminishing supply
of generic medicine from the major producers.

Nairobi Expressway to go live in six month - now 65 percent done. And this was started almost a year ago. Breathtaking! Nigeria will do such projects in 30yrs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUCIb3g11Q4