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Which little ones apart from Nigeria petty traders in Ghana. They should be kicked out because few countries allow petty traders to come to their countries. 5 million petty traders in Ghana. I have seen some in DRC. I met two Igbos in Mombasa 5yrs ago...they were looking to set up spare part shops..I dont know if they managed

Otherwise, Dangote, Globalcom branch in Ghana, the 10 banks - end of story.

mhkent:
Lol, what's this rip guy feeling like, if we start listing these tiny businesses you are bragging about here, do you think this thread would contain us . Never knew Kenyans can brag like this with their oversized coats.

One of Chandaria business in India - if all chandaria business all over the world are amalgated - it one would be one largest fortunes in the world - started in humble beginning Mombasa kenya.

Aegis Logistics Ltd. is India’s leading integrated Oil, Gas & Chemical Logistics company and one of India’s top Importers and Handlers of LPG amongst private players. The company operates through its state-of-the-art Necklace of Liquid & Gas terminals across major ports of India having a storage capacity of 15,70,000 KL for Chemicals & POL and 1,14,000 MT of static capacity for LPG.

This year Manu Chandaria became the first African to receive the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, which honours innovative philanthropists and highlights the contributions that they have made to society.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LJ3o21UMk&t=166s

Chandaria is not only very brilliant, rich but also the humblest man you'll ever meet who has donated alot including huge part of UON plaza. He use to come to our school at UON whenever we invited him for talks.

Dr. Manilal Chandaria is the Chairman and CEO of Comcraft Group, a business conglomerate that oversees operations in over 40 countries throughout the world. Hailed as one of Kenya’s leading industrialists, Dr Chandaria is a respected known for his extensive charitable work and contributions to the community.Passionate about youth and education, he has created the Chandaria Foundation which has endowed Chandaria School of Business at USIU, and Chandaria Business Innovation and Incubation Centre at Kenyatta University to help students nurture their skills and knowledge. Mr Chandaria was recognized by the Kenyan government with the Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear and granted the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth in 2003 in recognition for his community work and promotion of Kenyan-British interests.

True icon of real entrepreneurship - not Dangote enslaving Nigeria using gov.

Chandaria never meet gov officials for his steel, aluminimum and now many more areas - he sets up his factory - play fair - and soon dominate based on quality of services.

He has build business incubation centers at many kenya universities now.

Nigerians have a long way to go. If their best businessmen are petty Igbo traders then they have LOOOOOOOOOng way to go. Kenya boast very voracious Kikuyus, Somalis and Indians merchants ....but generally kenya business are likely to mature up to large corporation with operation in 10 countries.

Igbo business remain petty until it's inherited by another petty kin.

And the reason is simple. EDUCATION.

You cannot run complex business with Igbo type apprentership

Kenya-Indians go to Harvard, Yale and come back - turn around their family fortunes - the rest of kenya have learnt from them - educate you kids to the best possible.

The Ivy league kids come and make their small business regional empires.

Now Nigeria idea of business - skip school and come to my shop - I teach you how to sell Jollof rice or car spare parts. That man will never graduate into making his own spare parts - and cars - because of his very limited education.

Majority of kenya business that have gone far are run by very intelligent and educated folks most with IVY league education.

Manu Chandaria found his grandfather business moulding cooking utensil in Mombasa - with his world class education - he turned Comcraft into Africa most successfully industrial congolemerate with operation in 50 africa countries, in most of Asia, Europe and America. Dangote is piece of chicken shiet to Comcraft. They just wont list it because they dont have to....their wealth remain in the family

Almost every roof or cooking utensil in Africa has been made by Manu Chandaria ComCraft.

Bidco shah - also turned around their father soap making little thing - and has send Uniliver out of most of Africa - running 40 brands in 19 countries.

Take your kids to best school or if not hunt for best talent - let them come and run your small business.

All kenyan the more than 300 supermarkets stores bar two (khetias I think & Chandaria - kenyan-Indian) are now own by indigenous kenya. Only

Carrefour is the foreign player. The last South Africa - game stores - is auctioning their last shirt as we speak

The second largest now at 60 stores is owned by late Kinuthia family

Mukuha family - started from selling chicken - now run many business including one largest chicken hatcheries in the region - Karen's Waterfront Mall, schools, and Naivas supermarket chain.

Established in 1990, Naivas has grown to become the largest supermarket chain in the country with more than 84 stores and 8,000 employees as of June. The Mukuha family and the institutional investors own Naivas Limited –the operating company— through the investment vehicle Naivas International.

Ndegwa family is another conglomerate - let exclude the Mois and Kenyattas - who unlike the stupid Nigerian politician - run very extensive business operations. Not just stashing money abroad.

The Ndegwas are bloody billionaires

Philip Ndegwa and his sons , James and Andrew Ndegwa,
The Ndegwa sons, James and Andrew Ndegwa, split half of their family’s 25 percent stake in NIC Bank —where they’re the majority shareholders — worth Sh5 billion. Their father, Philip Ndegwa (who has been featured here before) created one of Kenya’s single largest business empires of which the over Sh2 billion the sons split is one reason they will croon their eternal financial Hosannas.

Philip Ndegwa: He minted one of Kenya’s most secured fortunes via First Chartered Securities, an indigenous investment outfit founded in 1974 with some 20 civil servants and business moguls as shareholders. Ndegwa’s acquisition vehicle bagged the Insurance Company of East Africa (now ICEA Lion with a 100 percent shareholding to date), before forays in re-insurance, banking, agriculture, logistics, and real estate.


Controlling stake in NIC Bank (whose 20 percent stake the family bought from Barclays in the 1990s) and Ambank, three tea estates and tea processing factories including the world renowned Karirana Estates bought in 1986 after acquisition of MacKenzie Kenya Ltd, milling and beverage manufacturing, the Riverside Park in Westlands where its managed by Knight Frank Kenya with First Chartered Securities as partners.

The property portfolio was worth $100 million (Sh9 billion by 1999) — through its insurance arm, alone! Before selling its interests in Inchcape Shipping (including a ‘garage’ for ships), the Ndegwas operated Africa’s largest dry shipping dock between Cairo and Cape Town!

The alumnus of Alliance High, Makerere (economics) and Harvard was government advisor on economics and planning on his way to being the second governor of the Central Bank in 1982. The chair of KCB and the National Bank of Kenya, KQ (whose privatization he steered), KRA, Society for International Development Kenya Chapter was also an international economic expert with the UN and assistant director of UNEP. The father of James and Andrew Ndegwa died in January 7, 1996. He was buried in a private ceremony.

The eastern african - if you remove kenya companies - what do you have left - nothing much. Maybe a few chinese have now entered the region otherwise kenya companies dominate from making tissue papers to everything.

The late Christopher John Kirubi (20 August 1941 – 14 June 2021), born in Murang'a county, was a Kenyan businessman, entrepreneur, and industrialist. He was a director at Centum Investment Company, a business conglomerate, of which he was the largest individual shareholder.[2]

According to the 2011 Forbes annual rankings of Africa's richest people in Kenya, Kirubi was ranked the second richest man in Kenya and 31st richest in Africa with a net worth of $301 million in the 2011 Forbes inaugural ranking of Africa's 40 richest people.[1] He ranked behind only the Kenyatta family, who were ranked richest in Kenya in 2011 with a net worth of $500 million. However, in 2012, Forbes dropped Kirubi from the list of Africa's 40 richest.[3]

He chaired: (1) DHL Express Kenya Limited, (2) Haco Industries Kenya Limited, (3) Kiruna International Limited, (4) International House Limited, (5) Nairobi Bottlers Limited, (6) Sandvik East Africa Limited and (7) 98.4 Capital FM. He was also a non-executive director of ( Bayer East Africa Limited, (9) UAP Provincial Insurance Company Limited and (10) Beverage Services of Kenya Limited.[4] He died on 14 June 2021 after a long battle with cancer.

TransCentury group - owned by 10 BLACK kenyans - run electrical cable business in east, central and south africa. Almost half the electrical, data and high tension wires you see in entire region are made by them.

Subsidiaries East African Cables in kenya, Tanelec in Tanzania, Kewberg Cableries in South Africa, du Congo in DRC

They manages Avery weights in entire region

They aslo own Civicon is large building construction company- The company has successfully undertaken projects as far afield as Yemen and today we have permanent facilities in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo from where it engages in operations in those countries as well as Ethiopia, Burundi, [Mozambique], Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.

Kenya Somali - Amina Mohammed Hersi - basically runs lots of things in Kampala Uganda and has sugar factory in Uganda north.

The village girl who changed Kampala''s urban lifestyle
Growing up as a young Muslim Somali immigrant girl in the small town of Bungoma, Kenya, we were not allowed to be seen or heard. We were not supposed to go ...

This month, Moghe has been named ‘African Businesswoman of the Year’ by The New Economy, a reputable London-based quarterly business magazine for “helping turn around several multi-million dollar projects that have dramatically changed the face of Kampala… during a particularly hard time for the global economy following the financial crisis.”

The MD of Kadhar Investments, Amina is behind the imposing Laburnum Courts luxury apartments in Nakasero, Oasis Mall and Kingstone Hardware Store, a top hardware distributorships in Kampala.

Moghe is also currently setting up a sugar plantation and factory in northern Uganda. She apparently “employs over 6,000 people, mainly women, and ensures that they play an integral part in management, as well as actively supporting girls’ schools in and around the city.”

There are just too many kenya business doing great stuff in the region; I think I will run out of time.

David Langat - has several companies including 3 tea estates in Tanzania and 1 in Malawi


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daOTNl7tn84

Although headquartered in Kenya, the DL Group has extensive operations and interests in Tanzania, UAE, China and the United Kingdom. This international presence in Africa, Asia and Europe provides the DL Group with global footprints that lead it to world class excellence in its diverse portfolio of products and services.

I dont have the time they are just too many.
Telcom - Faiba - kenya 4G operator - owned by Chepkwony - owns about 1/3 of all internet/fiber data business in kenya - guy has many other business.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yinTVJ9OQWU

Example 2: Stabex international - owned by Chebet - kalenjin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiY_tgmV93w

He has large avacado plantation in uganda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZoMxxti5pc

After BUA, Dangote and Globalcom - and few banks - that pretty much your business community - then below them are petty informal traders. Kenya has very extensive business men owning things across the region. It's not just Indians. The kenya-indian are like West African lebanese - born and bred here. But even forget about them...I can give you hundrends black owned companies doing great in the region.

Kenya is not Nigeria backwater.

Hass Petroleum - Kenya somalis - check how many countries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr4hQVPw4No

obaaderemi:
Behind Dangote there is BUA, Glomobile and many more, not to talk of the banks which have bought a couple of your banks. Indians are not as important here as they are in little India. Remind me of the name of your richest businessman again.

Kenyans are only African or black people to reliably win at highest level in sporting events. If you remove kenyans - then dark continent of Africa becomes very grim in sports. Ghana is number 61 in Fifa ranking and it showed. South Africa maybe would have done better...Ghana went there and leaked at least two goals every game . They were worse than even Qatar or Saudi Arabia.

IGpro1:
so you think other Africans have your kind of mentality?
Don't push your inferiority complex on others..
If you were from another country I would listen not a Kenyan, no na.. Turkana still needs food, hope you know.

There is no proper records of anyone in Nigeria because Indians just whittle through their airports and start working - Nigeira is a zoo without work permits.

35,000 is just the Indians working for Dangote alone.

Shma2022:
Nope, you only have 35,000 indians. Kenya has 110,000.

Humprey Kariuki whom Ruto just appointed to Kenya Investment Forum own many things

He own Africa Spirits in Kenya, Ihub Karen, Mt kenya Safaris amongst many other things.

Through Great Lakes Africa Energy we are powering Africa by generating energy from locally available resources. We have key projects in Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, and Mozambique as well as dozens of others in incubation.

Dalbit Petroleum is fueling regional growth by servicing the aviation, mining, manufacturing, transport and humanitarian sectors in the region.

Belgravia Services Ltd specialises in the construction of oil terminals, power plants and related infrastructure. It has so far undertaken key projects in Zambia, DR Congo, Kenya and Tanzania.

Kenya defence forces continues to make huge stride to become a modern armed force.

The National Defence University- Kenya (NDU-K) has today, Friday 2 December 2022, matriculated the first cohort of 177 cadets in a historic and colorful event at the institution’s main campus in Lanet, Nakuru.

The matriculating class comprised cadets from Kenya and allied countries, including Burundi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

NDU-K has seven Colleges among them the National Defence College (NDC), Joint Command and Staff College (JCSC), KMA, Defence Forces Technical College (DEFTEC) and the International Peace Support Training College (IPSTC). Others are the Defence College of Health Sciences (DCHS) and the National Intelligence and Research University College under the National Intelligence Service (NIS).

Behind Dangote - is Indians; So all your biggest company Dangote cement, sugar, oil, fertilizers; are managed and run by Indians. Dangote daughters and sons just run the accounts and the foundations.

There many black kenya business men whose business have expanded -example no is Humphrey Kariuki - with many business in downstream oil (dalbit - run petrol operations in 10 countries), power stations in Uganda (24MW), Zambia (105Mw) and Mozambique (250MW).

There are way too many black kenyans doing great stuff in the region. Unlike the lazy and indolent South Africans - or the criminal minded Nigerian - Kenyans are hardworking and resourcefull go-getters who do their things with minimal noise.

obaaderemi:
Name the biggest companies in Nigeria, none belongs to an Indian. Yet we have more Indians in Nigeria than Kenya. They dominate your manufacturing, retail, etc. They're even the richest people in Kenya.

The bulk of dangotes workers are Nigerians, not Indians. Indians do not only dominate your industries, you even tout them as your success story. You can't talk about Kenyan businesses outside Kenya without pointing at the Indians. They've colonized not only your land but your minds.

30yrs is long time not to make adjustment. The reality the black SA is not working on their weakness - they remain lazy, indolent and un-
educated.

It's in Nigeria where Indians dominate - not Kenya. Your entire manufacturing and even retail is held together by a million indians. Kenya has about 50K indians - and their dominance only exist in manufacturing - and that too is declining very fast.

Dangote alone annually ship in what maybe 30,000 indians - and you still allow him lots of state protectionism - so he can hire more indians.

Then Nigeria about 30,000 travel to India for medical and educational purposes..

You're more colonized by India than Kenya ever was.

obaaderemi:
It's not the same thing. You didn't suffer apartheid. Men were separated from their families and many children and women were sent to "homelands". It was terrible. The whole thing crumbled only in 1990. Most of the blacks are just coming to terms with the new status quo.

But what is the excuse for Indians dominating you in business in Kenya?

South Africa is generally ahead of kenya but the gap is closing pretty fast. 10yrs ago the gap was 10 times big; now it's merely 3 times; another decade; there wont be any gap. Unless the majority blacks wake up - South Africa is stuck.

jl115:
So you are saying Kenyan blacks can't compete with South African blacks or whites ..... We've heard it here first folks... Rvp admits Kenyans are below all SAns...

Yes their are transformation targets which the government would ideally want the national team to be like, however they cannot be inforced since international bodies will ban SA if they made qoutas mandatory hence the teams have always been chosen on merit..... Except for Temba Bavuma...

Cameroun bow out with some respect after beating Brazil. Now all hopes on Senegal and Morocco.

I saw tears all over. Men should not cry except in their close relative mourning. Who died? Even TV dude was weeping. Your Ghanians really are weak. You need to toughen up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izJRMdD58pE

Just40:
Fortunately Ghanaians are very happy....

We've finally built a team and already have a coach that can manage them to dominate African football for the next 20 years because they're all young.

No!! Kenyans have different economic and sporting enviroment from South Africa or Namibia.
You cannot measure Kenyans by Black South African standards. That racism.
You measure them by white South African standards.
They are born and live in the same country like a Boer and should attain the same standards that obtains in RSA.
Not in kenya. What is possible in Kenya is different - we dont for once have gazillions of minerals.
Kenya kid should equally compete with any kenyan of any race first - before we compete with South Africa.

It like us telling ethnic Somalis that they are okay despite the discrimination & marginalization they undergo because look fellow Somalis in Somalia have an even worse deal. Or turkanas in kenya are better than those in South sudan.

And please dont lie

By the latest transformation targets, on average about 6 players of color, including 2 black African cricketers should be in the playing XI. Not only that, but the transformation target is also implemented all throughout South Africa's cricketing system, from age-level groups to senior internationals.

The South African government and the SARU have an agreement that 50 per cent of the Springboks team at the 2019 World Cup should be black.

jl115:
Our Rugby team is chosen on merit.... You don't win a world Cup with qoutas...

As for the rest, well black SAns earn twice as much as you and the SAn Black Middle class is several times larger than yours so yeah....take away us Whities you feel so inferior to then you still miles behind SA in everything...... An all black springbok side would put 150 on the best Kenyan rugby side

Yes that was point. The xhosa weak khoisan was demeaning kenya which has really tried - and equating it with Uganda - while their gov has to force the Boers to include black players in the team - force them to hire black people - name it. In fact the black players are mostly affirmative pick - they won't make the cut it if Boer had his way.

The Boer here at least acknowledge the great strides kenya indigenous rugby has done.

Shma2022:
I am not anti-diversity! I like the intermingling. However, that was not my point. Here is my point; SA is good in sports, yes. Don't come demeaning other Nations based on your performance. Especially if you're a lazy Khoisan like you.

In every sector indigenous black Kenyans have worked their way up to compete with formerly privileged Asians and Whites; I am doubtful the Azian here is making any progress down in South Africa.

And I think that elephant in room when you look at South Africa - for how much longer will the boer dominate the slum dweller here?

We cannot just sweep everything under the rug - elephant in room in South Africa rugby is the boer continued dominance.

In the apartheid era, rugby was racially segregated with blacks barred from representing the Springboks.

I suggest they should even change the team name from Springboks to something Shaka Zulu Boys.

obaaderemi:
The Indian dude is the only industrialist of note in little India. They can't talk without mentioning him.

Africans team should really work on their mentality - otherwise all the talent continue going down the drain - and it just tears in Ghana now

From kenyan forum - African teams have to work on their mindset - there is no dearth of talent

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Africans are a waste of space in this tournament. There was a time I would be excited thinking they might pull off something. The only African team I am looking out for is France .

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The brainwashing at work . Senegal just didnt have a finisher . Then it was clear from word go they were playing a Counteroffensive game.
No matter what we should support our African teams . Its my hope Senegal advances they have the potential. Unfortunately Mane was injured but still they have a good team.
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Mane would have made no difference. I have seen hugely talented African teams fall to otherwise untalented teams one too many times to be bothered. I would love to be pleasantly surprised, but I'd rather not go through the agony of *kukaza mkundu* for a group of guys that just don't share the same passion and interest to bother showing up.
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You see having lived and travelled in different capitals of this world , I ve interacted with lots of Africans who live in Western world and feel they are locals there and look down upon fellow Africans . Termie you are one of them . This has become evident by your blind support of Western Nations and NATO in the Ukrainian cities.

Senagal just like Spain in 2010 Worldcup made some tactical blunders hope they will learn from it. We need to rally our African teams this time around our target should be Semi Finals . Will be here , cos I have the final ticket. Unlike in Russia 4 years ago when I sold my Semi Final ticket when Russia lost penalties against Croatia , Mimi sibanduki……

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If you are dumb enough to hop on a train that the players themselves won’t, be my guest. Senegal et al are hugely talented and a waste of space. I’ll pick Laos in a game against them, because Laos would show up.
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Senegal's game yesterday was a perfect example of how nyeuthi gets distracted,after playing well for 90% of the game they lost concentration I could tell very early in the game senegal would concede last minutes, all african nyeuthi team have this weakness in mind, But for some reason Senegalese are the worst. I think its baafrica gene.

They start celebrating or feeling relieved early and just start to mail it in. In early 2000s, I followed Senegal's exploits all the way to quarter finals with baited breath. In that last game it was obvious they had been celebrating all of the previous night. Turkey which I thought should be no match, made quick work of them. I learned my lesson with humility.

Thats true with baafrica
But if Kalenjins knew how to play football or team sports they would be unbeatable they really have a strong will power to be able to run for marathons and stuff the mind is key.


South Korea sleepwalking into round of 16 beating Portugal 2-1. Uruguay desperately trying to max goals against Ghana(last in the group). Like mentioned, Africans are brimming with talent, but total waste of space.

The Black star all the best. Let me watch you get arse-whopping.

Rhamtons have even long history..their factory is in Nairobi mombasa road..they have been making these products for two decades now.