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Nearly all iron/tin/aluminium sheet roofing you see in Africa - that replaced the grass thatch of before - began as small manufacturing in Mombasa Kenya - plus most of cooking pots and such

The Comcraft group of Companies whose host country is in Kenya is hosted in over 40
countries, with Dr. Manu Chandaria as the Chairman and CEO. It deals in the industry
of mechanical or industrial engineering. Comcraft Kenya Ltd produces steel, plastics,
and aluminium products in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and internationally. It
also manufactures and markets various consumer and building products made from
steel and aluminium. The company was founded in 1915 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya
with additional offices in Singapore, Sydney – Australia, London – The United
Kingdom, Toronto – Canada, Geneva – Switzerland and India (Bloomberg, 2017). In it
are companies like SAFAL Group, Tower Aluminium, Metalex Group among others

https://safalsteel.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/005681SS_Safal-Group-Globe-1536x742.png

Selective amnesia as always.
We have posted many kenya manufacturing companies.
I think Kenya is easily the third in manufacturing sector after South Africa and Egypt in proper Africa manufacturing.
Morroco and magreb are more linked to Europe.

What you call manufacturing in most of East Africa countries are actually Kenya subsidiaries. A few of our manufacturers like Comcraft/Safal group has expanded globally - in fact most of tin or iron sheet roof in West Africa are Tower Aluminium - part of Comcraft that started and is HQed in Kenya.

IVM/INNOSON are not manufacturing - those are jokers rebadging finished chinese cars.

Like in any sector - Kenya manufacturers are all over East Africa. It's just Dangote like Nigeria.

Let me give you an example; East Africa Breweries - is easily 2nd biggest brewer in Africa after SABMiller. SAB Miller has no hope of entering Kenya or East Africa - while they DOMINATE West Africa and almost run Nigeria.

EABL - operate in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Congo and Rwanda

EABL began with the creation of Kenya Breweries Limited in 1922 – the year we brewed our first ever beer . Today, our business is concentrated on three core markets of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, and our products are sold in more than 10 countries in Africa and beyond. We have five production sites across the region and our operations support a range of industries and suppliers.

Current group companies
Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) – Nairobi, Kenya- 100% Shareholding -Established in Kenya in 1922. The company's core business is brewing of Beer and bottling of non-alcoholic malt beverages.[8]
Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) – Port Bell, Uganda - 98.2% Shareholding - UBL has been a brewer in Uganda since 1946.[9]
United Distillers Vintners (Kenya) Limited (UDV) – Nairobi, Kenya - 46.32% Shareholding - UDV was established in 1962. UDV Kenya Limited is majority owned by Diageo PLC, which holds 53.68% shares. EABL manages the company on behalf of Diageo. Its core business is the manufacture, marketing and sales of spirit based alcoholic beverages. It also imports and distributes premium spirit brands from the parent company.[10]
International Distillers Uganda Limited (IDU) – Port Bell, Uganda - 100% Shareholding - Acquired in June 2012 from Selviac Nederland, is a subsidiary of Guinness UDV.[11] The company manufactures, markets and sales of spirits in Uganda.
East African Maltings (Kenya) Limited – Nairobi, Kenya - 100% Shareholding - EAML-Kenya plays a vital role of supplying quality brewing raw materials in the form of Malt, Barley and Sorghum to the brewing units of the EABL group in Kenya.
East African Maltings (Uganda) Limited - Kampala, Uganda - 100% Shareholding - EAML-Uganda plays a vital role of supplying quality brewing raw materials in the form of Malt, Barley and Sorghum to the brewing units of the EABL group in Uganda.
EABL International Limited – Nairobi, Kenya - 100% Shareholding - EABLi (formerly EABL Venture) was set up in 2009, the venture's business was to focus on building the Spirits business in Eastern Africa and driving the geographic expansion through greater focus to drive a total beverage business and through expansion into new markets such as The Great Lakes Region. EABLi operates in Southern Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and DRC through third party supply, exports, and covering the spirits portfolio for both domestic and duty-free sales as well as beer sales in the markets where the group does not have local operations.[12]

Bottle of Serengeti Premium Lager
Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL) - Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - 51% Shareholding - SBL is the second largest beer company in Tanzania, with a market share of approximately 28% of the Tanzanian branded beer sector. The company was incorporated in 1988 as Associated Breweries Limited. Its name was changed to Serengeti Breweries Limited in 2002. EABL acquired 51% of the issued share capital of SBL in October 2010.[13]
East African Beverages South Sudan Limited (EABSS) - Juba, South Sudan - 99% Shareholding - EABSS commenced operations in 2013 with the set-up of a depot in Juba from which it would supply beer and spirits to its distributors

IGpro1:
with your boisterous 'chest beating'
You'll only make Kenya a laughing stock when all your fantasies fail to materialize,
We hardly buy VW in Nigeria, it's like saying only 32 INNOSON VEHIVLES where sold in Kenyan, when in actual fact most Kenyans don't buy IVM.

There's nothing Kenya is doing that hasn't been done in other parts of Africa.

You seem to hallucinate alot, and it's annoying really.

You've dragged everyone down to posting ordinary roads and bridges,
When we should be posting industries.

I've never seen a Kenyan post pictures of their manufacturing industries, all we see are skyscrapers.
Question is, those occupying those buildings where do they work.?
Or are they All engineers and tea farmers.

They are unequal but they are middle class. Those two are not mutually exclusive. Dont delude yourself. South African primary teacher drives a brand new VW polo car. Nigeria - the whole 210M people - only 32 can manage to buy brand new VW polo in a year. South African do not buy used cars...they buy almost half a million new cars.

Nigerians are daily emigrating to South Africa because it's middle class country. They have serious racial inequality - unemployment - but it still a decent - country by African standards.

Or in few words Nigeria will get to South Africa current level in 2070 if they work really hard. Kenya maybe 2035.

South Africa problem is to get to developed world standard - Europe/South Asian/North American standards - where poverty/unemployment/etc are rare. They are likely to stay in the middle class rut unless ANC decides to take them Zim way to find their base...and re-start again.

samorobo:
Pls check your head this minutes. You are the world most unequal country with less than 3500 of your population owning more than the rest of your populace.it’s simply mean your middle class and average SAns wealth is a charade-one that exist in theory but not in reality. You zoo is a poor broken joke,this illusory wealth exist in the realms of your imaginations and tgat is pure hardcore facts.

Yeah it worse delusion you can imagine. Nigerian generally suffers from a miasma of grand delusion. We have seen them live live here. They come and buy a toilet or rent a room 10 guys and next time you meet them -they are out saying they own Kenya - they dont even own the room they squeeze 10 guys in Umoja or Roysambu.

Which banking or ICT or name any sector do they control in Kenya If South Africa companies cannot hack kenya - NIGERIA

Some of their banks came and bought small little banks (got duped) - but kenya big banks are all over East and Central Africa. ICT companies are all over Africa.

These people are emerging from military dicatorship or darkness - and this their first decade when they are expanding outside Nigeria.

Kenya companies made their first forays regionally in 90s - dominated Uganda and Tanzania.

Name literally any sector - Kenya companies went abroad long time ago. Precisely in 1990s when kenya economy tanked with IMF/WB/Western sanctions.

Outside South Africa - there is no other country with regional expansion like kenya firms.

gallivant:
Delusions indeed.

PWC are bean counters. They cannot make economic projections. They probably dont have a single economist of any repute. OECD, IMF, WB - those can talk.

jl115:
We all know the kshs will weaken in the next 5 years but regardless, You obviously have no idea who PWC is

Fact is you ain't even in the picture by 2050

I am happy to always see African countries making progress.
I am great supporter of late Meles Zenawi and his Ethiopia magic.
I like what Kagame is doing in Rwanda.
Now let's deal with reality - Kenya since 2005 is on steroids.
We have seen GDP rise from 15B to now 110B.
Nothing suggest that growth is about to stop - infact I believe it's about to accelerate into double digit territory.
I see Kenya GDP in next 15yrs doing what it has done - growing by 7 times - to 700-800B
You may think this is crazy - but remember this thread started when Kenya GDP was barely 40B
Kenya is about to nail all the pre-condition for sustainable growth.
This I repeat again is zero mineral sustainable broad based diversified growth that is hard to bring down even in COVID or global recession or name it. Only a civil war in Kenya can slow us down.
As for Ghana, Nigeria and backwater countries depandant on minerals - YOU ARE GOING NOWHERE except where you are.
When commodity prices like now are high - you'll get high - then market collapses - and you go down. It's going to be that way - up and down.
As for South Africa - it's totally stuck if not regressing - Ramaphosa has now officially failed

chrisooblog:
Now this is your problem and the reason why people drag you here on this thread.

You assume other countries will remain stagnant and not improve while you continue to grow which very laughable. Your 'vibrant economy' relies heavly on aid and loans to build basic infrastructure. Your debt to GDP ratio is close to 70%. your trade deficit is a joke. Your population uses less power than Ghana that has at the very least 20 million people less than your country.

The Nigerian 'zoo' controls your IT sector, owns your banks, sponsors your football league and build your roads. You clowns have yet to conquer slums and you're dreaming of surpassing serious countries that have no such problems?

You rafiki are a textbook case of delusions of grandeur.

Our treasury mandrains dont think so. I know you're clutching on that report by some accountant intern at PWC. PWC should concentrate on auditing books- simple maths - not making economic projection. It's simply not their domain. Let them count beans.

As you can see our treasury economist think we will be at 200B dollars (Kshs-dollar staying stable) in 2025/2026.

And RSA treasury projection is you'll be stuck around 350B if not less

jl115:
you ain't overtaking us anytime soon

Algeria is hopeless - a country without any private sector. Kenya will zoom past it. Their economy has tanked from 180B dollars to 140B dollars 0 now 160B. Kenya has a vibrant private and domestic economy. Nigeria is a zoo. The South Africans are busy waiting for us to overtake them in 10yrs. They cannot move forward. They are stuck.

GeneralDae:
Overtaking Morocco would be great but Nigeria, South Africa, and Egypt have always been amongst the top three economies in Africa for more than 3 decades now even though the others below them have always fluctuated. Beat Morocco first, but it would be a huge leap to beat Algeria in the next five years, because unlike Morocco, the Algerians are heavy on resources especially oil and gas. If Kenyan economy topples that of Algeria in the next 5 years, you would truly earn my respect.

Pretty close....Kenya may overtake Morroco this year or next year - to become 5th Largest economy in Africa. Next Algeria. Then Nigeria (or formally South Africa)

Shma:
Source ~ World bank.

Years Morroco
2018. $118.1B.
2019. $119.7B.
2020 $114.9B.
2021. $117.04B
Difference. - 1



Year's Kenya
2018 $92.203B
2019 $95.5B
2020 $101.84B
2021 $109.1B
Difference: +17

Oba, here is the answer.

68816419:
Nigga ,Nigeria is a huge country, meaning all states should have at least 1 Airports
here are some of the New International Airports been built by State Government
1- AKWA IBOM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN UYO NIGERIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtAES_mpzoI&t=409s
2- Anambra Airport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa2vj3Q-2eY&t=253s

3- Asaba International Airport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O7FlCldbzU

4- Duste International Airport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgjWUE85hE&t=31s

5- Ebonyi International Airport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBkH0kPg40

6- Calabar International Airport


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6PjLctYovw&t=361s

only six..Kenya has six international airports..plus more airstrips and airports than Nigeria

Lagos could do with better airport if - not three more airports. Why does Abuja need brand new airport - and all the whistles. Nigeria need to feed the cow that produce the milk (Lagos) - and leave the Fulani cow of Abuja to roam the streets.

68816419:
The New Abuja International Airport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPlTP8AHPQ

GeneralDae:
For the first time ever in your life, you seem to be making some sense.
However, South Africa is still punching below her weight and this is not because of the population. Just the way Nigeria has the potential to be a China in terms of GDP, South Africa has the potential to be a Japan in terms of GDP. Not in absolute terms but in comparable terms if you get what I mean.

South Africa problem is well known.. legacy of apartheid that miseducated the majority black in Bantu schools..the economy is largely held together by tiny white and Asian minority...and unfortunately the blacks are not getting the educational shift that will make them as productive and efficient as whites.Until South Africa address it's education it will remain neither developed or developing...it will remain in middle class trap like many Latin America countries.Asian countries are moving to developed world because they are serious with their education...the more educated the more efficient and productive you can be...for education is the common denominator of advancement

GDP measures in simple terms all goods and services produced annually..rich countries are more efficient and productive..they produce more farm outputs, build more houses, manufacture more, etc because they are again more efficient and productive.Its function of inputs (population) and productivity..so you can produce more by simply having large population...or by being more efficient

obaaderemi:
Tell us why Morocco's GDP is higher than Kenya's GDP with fewer people.(Morocco)

Obaboon it's called productivity..how productive are you to produce more goods and services from low population..using either bare hands or machines..it's efficiency and productivity.. Nigeria if it was to make it 200m as productive as say South Africa would have roughly 4 times bigger economy.How do you make people produce more? Developed countries uses less resources to produce more..in acre of land they produce 5 times what we do..from a cow they milk 5 times more..their employees at end day has done 5 times more work... their economy therefore becomes 5 times more ours.Its start with having well educated healthy population with money to invest in inputs to produce more outputs...if your Fulani herder was educated....he won't be crazing cows over long distances...he would use the land to grow corn..and use that to grow beef...maize is maybe 100 times more than grass in calorific value..that is how one cattle farmer abroad produce more than 100 Fulani herders

You have a well earned reputation as one world most dirtiest countries.

Ranked among the world’s dirtiest countries, Ghana has poor environmental sanitation and hygiene, and a lack of potable water, all of which combined have been largely blamed as the underscoring reasons for cholera outbreaks.

THESE KIND OF STATS ARE SHOCKING - I mean kenya does have cholera case - in remote places and slums - but never at epidemic level

Ghana has continued to record intermittent cholera outbreaks since the 1980s, with these becoming increasingly frequent in recent years. The most recent, devastating outbreak that occurred in June 2014 spilled over to 2015. As of 4th January 2015, a total of 28 922 cases including 243 deaths were recorded, representing a case fatality rate of 0.8% [4, 5]. The outbreak affected 130 districts out of the 216 districts in all 10 regions of Ghana [5]. Until 2014, the highest number of cholera cases recorded in a single year during an outbreak was 15 032, reported in 1982 [6]. During the 2014 outbreak, the proportion of cholera cases recorded was highest among those aged 20–49 years, representing 70% of the cases.

Just40:
we've eliminated cholera

How long will it take your country to do same ?

It's 2022 and your people shouldn't be dying from eating their own poop

POKUASI2:
yes, as a Ghanaian, I guess the god that experimented with you humanoid forgot there's something called brain he needs to insert into the very big, v shaped head to read and understand things. Firstly, bit*ch pls is/was an exclamation but it's necessary I explain it to you-Ghanaian cos you don't have the brain to know that on your own.. I found it very disrespectful when you say I don't respect cos you don't know my age and may never say it to my face If you should see me in person. ( mind you, I'm not your typical Ghanaian that doesn't grow past 5.3 foot tall) I'm 6.3ft tall and well built so when you talk respect I suggest you should be mindful..Yes, the rest of Africa needs to learn how cholera killed over 4000 people in the 21st century in your capital city

shocking...4000 people died of cholera and they still have no sewer plan

gallivant:
Ghanains stop whining, screaming, crying and post development.

They have nothing...we have been asking for pictures and videos...but they always come short

POKUASI2:
I live in ghana so what.. Ghana is a shambolic, mismanaged country with bowls in arms ready to beg anybody or thing.. Ghana, a very poor country run on PR but some of us that have been to most part of it know that 90 percent of things you see about ghana on the cyberspace is false.. for example, tamale, the 3rd largest city in ghana and Northern regional have little or no cars plying it's roads because the people are so poor that having car is Nearly impossible or a miracle.. Accra the capital city is 80 percent slum and having a toilet in ghana's capital is a luxury.

Agreed.. totally

POKUASI2:
bit'ch please! Cholera Nealy wipe residents of your capital out in 2014 with over 14,000 cases and over 4000 deaths. Did that stopped your from selling food in front of gutter. In Accra Ghana, food has to be sold in front of open, stech emitting gutter before people can buy which is basically an indication of quality of people Ghanaian society produces

I am not surprised...they need to build sewers

Mombasa roads and bridges catching up.

You need to learn from Kenya.
Kenya oil industry runs an open tender system - gov basically issues the import tender to one of fuel downstream company.
That single company is given say 250M dollars tender to import fuel for the entire month - months in advance.
The fuel once it arrived in Mombasa port is kept by Kenya Gov pipeline.
And is released to different oil companies.
You cannot have NIgeria kind of mess where everyone imports or fail to import on time.
Kenya people dont even know what fuel shortage is....maybe one petrol station lacks fuel....for few hours...but entire town or city.
It's never happened before...people dont even know that fuel will ever run out of petrol stations.
Such pics we see in Nigeria are crazy.
https://kepsa.or.ke/why-open-tender-system-is-the-best-model-for-petroleum-sector-in-kenya/

Kenya Oil Open Tender System (OTS)

Kenya imports refined petroleum products through the OTS. The importation of petroleum products through the OTS allows Oil Marketing Companies(OMCs) to access petroleum products at the same price and therefore ensure competition in the petroleum market. He noted the OTS is run through monthly tenders, it entails sourcing of petroleum predominantly from the spot market whereby petroleum is sourced from the open market without any prior contracts. PS Kamau added that the industry recognizes that OTS is an effective supply system that creates a competitive and transparent means of availing the product to Kenyans, through the economics of scale. He concluded by giving the various formula they use to calculate the final pump price of petroleum products

PROVERBZ:
some times u need to ignore that fool. The issue has been resolved after other ships containing petrol reached our shores. It's not that there was scarcityz the one which was bought got contaminated and had to be removed from circulation.

Nigeria has crude, Nigeria does not refine crude in the quantity that would be enough for now. So like every other country we import it even tho that would change by 4quater of this year.

The most widely spoken languages of Africa:
Kiswahili (100 million)
Yoruba (20 million)
Igbo (21 million)
Fula (13 million) all belong to the Niger-Congo family.

AU accepted and signed for Kiswahili as an official language.

PROVERBZ:
I really don't understand u. U claim appolonia is the fastes developing. Post pictures of the developments or at least name companies that have laid roots at appolonia. U keep on posting renders as if the other projects don't have them also.

Appolonia is by same company with Tatu n Nigeria one in Lagos... Appolonia is dead on arrival.. only cheap housing with iron tin roofing have been completed

jl115:
English is already the lingua franca in most African countries(including Kenya) .... Why do we need Swahili?

Because English is a colonial unafrican nose language.Kiswahili is Africa n natural tonal language that is already spoken by most African..Bantu language that can easily be taught from Nigeria to South Africa.The few non Bantu speakers in Africa will also easily learn it..Arabs in the north will find many Arabic loan words.. leaving the Boers and their Afrikaan language...as last adopters..we would care less..you will never be an African bloody colonizer.You cannot enslave n colonize us then demand we speak your language between ourselves.We should speak Swahili locally and English-French internationally

10B dollars that look like 100m

vankelvin:
These are the few pics I got from my search about the project..

Long overdue.. kiswahili adopted as one of the AU official languages.. Africa need to agree to use Swahili as the lingua franca.. Southern,Central and East Africa.. already huge acceptances.. considering lots of Arabic p
Loan words should not be problem in northern Africa...so next is for west Africa to adopt it.

Just40:
The 10 billion dollars African Business Hub city project in Accra which began last year already has more project construction than Konza in Kenya and all the other scams.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqu06XO4-4c

mad cow 10 billion is a lot of money..try 100m dollar

You can bet it's gotten even more hellish

vankelvin:
2017 Clown

The WORST countries in Africa by maternal mortality ratio (World Bank modeled estimate per 100,000 live births 2017):

South Sudan 1,150
Chad 1,140
Sierra Leone 1,120
Nigeria 917
Central African Republic & Somalia both 829

ABSOLUTE HELL.

LOL I am not suprised. When you have central bank dishing out money and state inflating figures; that is what happens.

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
Listen to me you are a total illiterate and you cannot calculate Nigeria produce 1 million bags of rice this one million bags of rice is not even enough for the Nigerian people for one week. 1 million bag of rice is 50 million kg. A bag of rice is about 50 US dollar which is about 50 US dollar. 1 US Dollar package. Here we could only produce 50 million u.s. dollar of rice. 50 million kgs of rice divided by the population. The rights cannot Feed Us for one week. I love it when illiterate make noise. Ghana export 300 million u.s. dollar of pineapples compared to 50 million u.s. dollar of rice

I am sure if I dig deeper into it - it probably a scheme to eat Central Bank money - rice anchor program. Where is the electricity to process the rice

68816419:
@RVP: Here is the 11th mill Rice been built across Nigeria in spate of 6 years, Mind u, the 3rd largest rice Mill in the world located in Lagos hasn't even begin productions . Buhari will commission one the largest rice mill in Nigeria this year in Katsina to produce 2.8 million bags of 50kg rice annually. Over 10,000 farmers will be engaged to supply rice paddy from Katsina and neighbouring communities outside the state.

In Kenya we have many formal agricultural institutions with very extensive agricultural extension services.
Gov knows how much is planted formally - and do estimate the informal sector - and validate it against pseudo-data.

dreamxhaser:
Do will do that by making their research like the way a Kenyan like you claim to have done.

But the only difference is theirs is carried out by professionals not some individuals with quack knowledge of economics living somewhere in Nairobi