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Maasai wore the same attire - made from leather (cow skin) - they smeared themselves with red ochard (red soil). Maasai started wearing clothes purchases from Arabs - in 1890s - and only thing that changed was the material from leather to cottnon- the design remained - their many ornamants remained. Their housing remained. Their food remained. Their culture is almost intact.

Maasai refuses to wear trousers, shirts. The only change is leather to cotton - everything else remain as was. Their colour of clothing remain red.

1) Maasai now
2) Maasai then

obaaderemi:
Keep fooling yourself.
If the maasai had kept their authentic culture, that senator in your Parliament will be in animal skin and not that European style blanket he is wearing which the maasai started using around 1960.

Kenya kids thanks to it's high quality education do assignments, masters, thesis and even phd for students in developed world - controlling the 1B dollars contract assignment industry.

“There are incredibly qualified people in Kenya. Very high levels of English. Very able to write essays quickly and when they want to, to a high standard,” he continued.

Kenyan writers are sometimes asked to dumped down their assignment -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXA6WaLzBtM&t=9s

Kenya rules the world in this type of work
Dr Thomas Lancaster, expert in contract cheating

One firm offered to create a 30,000-word PhD thesis for £22,416. Almost all of these companies are based abroad, with many in Kenya but others in Eastern Europe and India.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-01-24/doing-western-students-homework-big-business-kenya

Arabs when they arrived formed a close association with coastal bantus - they converted them to Islams - and intermarried. They were not raiding slaves or selling them from people they were befriending. Just about 40 miles from Mombasa - the huge Maasai territory starts - at the very south - the Maasai started from near Lake Tanganyika to Lake Turkana. Maasai reputation as fearless warriors spread far and wide - everyone basically left them alone - Somalis retreated to Somalia - Ethiopians moved north - and other kenyan tribes basically retreated to highlands - left all the grassland and plains to Maasai and their many cattles.

The arabs did slave and ivory trade - but they avoided Maasai territory - looked for pathways to Congo, Uganda and such areas - where kindoms existed that sold their people for cheap.

Maasai were the real wakanda - the brave Africans who saw the Arab and whiteman for crap - and could not entertain their trinkets.

Maasai to this day walk in Nairobi clad in their traditional dress.

This Maasai senator in parliament - if there are Africans who have kept their authentic culture and have genuine self esteem - it the maasai - not the crap I see in west africa - were 90 percent are bleaching.
https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/files/2020/11/IMG_8099-e1605026163599.jpg

Maasai are bad arse...and Europeans only colonized Kenyans after they went on civil war btw different sections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0EFw7sPSo

obaaderemi:
Slavery was abolished by the Europeans in 1809. And since the Europeans did not reach Kenya until 1890 like you said there was nothing like the transatlantic slave trade in Kenya. But long before the Europeans came, the Arabs of Kenya's coast traded in slaves.
Lamu and Mombasa were slavery hubs. Many Kenyans along the coast were sold as slaves. Unless you want to claim lamu and Mombasa are not part of Kenya.

Joseph Thomson in 1885 - became the first white man to cross Maasai Teritory and come out alive. He went on to write about his experience crossing Kenya - and wrote his best seller - Through Maasailand.

The Maasai to this day refuses to modernize - because they have such a proud history as some of the bravest people - they see a whiteman as beneath them


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0EFw7sPSo

Actually it wasn't until 1880s when any European entered Kenya hinterland.

The British Empire had a commercial interest in building a railroad to these lands, but the shortest route from the coast of present-day Kenya was still an unexplored spot on the map. Two great obstacles stood in the way: the impenetrable Taru Desert of thorns and, above all , the Maasai, a legendary tribe of fierce warriors whose mere name inspired dread

The Maasai were as feared as the Vikings were - and for many years - no Arab or Europea could dare enter Maasailand - and kenya remained isolated for many years.

This Nilotic-Hamitic tribe of pastoral nomads in former days overran East
Central Africa. They owed their supremacy to their military organization
under which the warrior companies or sirits lived apart and formed a republic of young men governed solely by ideas of military glory . . . They are a pagan tribe impervious to the efforts of any missionary society. Their
bravery is proverbial. The customary diet is meat, milk and blood: any
form of agricultural labour is beneath their dignity. The Masai are conservative pagans and so far have shown but little response to administrative effort. (Kenya Land Commission Evidence and Memoranda 1934, 1221)

Not in kenya. The European and Arabs confined their operation to 10 miles of kenya ocean - due to very hostile tribes in the hinterland - but in Tanzania down to Mozambique- and South Africa - they entered - bought slaves from around there - all the way to DRC Congo.

Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and such was too "deadly" for them. The Maasai lived almost 40 miles along the coastline - and the Arabs could never dare enter.

The first European to cross Kenya was Josehp Thomson in 1850.

Appisko:
first Europeans arrived on the Kenyan coast. In 1498, a Portuguese explorer named Vasco de Gama stumbled upon the East African coast in search of China. De Gama was initially rejected by the sultan at Mombasa although his bitter rival, the sultan of Malindi welcomed the explorers. The new immigrants did not settle in quietly, however, and within a few years the Portuguese had looted and ransacked several Swahili cities. 
 The Portuguese remained on the East African coast for 200 years with well established trading posts. These newest immigrants spent their time trading gold from the interior and exporting slaves to work on the plantations in North America and East Indies. Portuguese rule was harsh, unpopular, and economically debilitating for the local people

https://sites.google.com/site/whywequal/civil-war-top-war-countries/kenya/kenya-slave

not in kenya

Appisko:
Author N'Diaye estimates that 17 million East Africans were sold into slavery: "Most people still have the so-called Transatlantic [slave] trade by Europeans into the New World in mind. But in reality the Arab-Muslim slavery was much greater," N'diaye said.

"Eight million Africans were brought from East Africa via the Trans-Saharan route to Morocco or Egypt. A further nine million were deported to regions on the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean."

https://m.dw.com/en/east-africas-forgotten-slave-trade/a-50126759

Please study the East Africa Slave Trade. Kenyans were not taken slaves. Arabs used to go to Congo and Uganda to pick slaves. Remember kenya tribes were free from any kingdom - so nobody could sell anybody - all the people were equal.

Slavery in Africa was mostly Ghana-Senegal-Nigeria-Congo-Angola. These were mainly kingdoms selling their subjects for crap like clothes, sugar, salt and maybe few guns.

Kenya was definitely a no go zone for Arabs or White people until late 19th century. The Maasai were feared far and wide - and Arabs had warned the white - Portuguese or British - to avoid the Maasai for they were unbeatable-- so the Maasai formed a huge wall from northern TZ (Arusha) all the way to Northern Kenya.After you were done with Maasai - nearly all the kenyan tribes were equal hostile.

It wasn't until 1890 that Kenya was colonized with Maasai weaken by civil war, rinderpest and British invention of automatic recoil guns. Otherwise Kenya tribes could make nonsense of the Arab muskeeter guns.

The biggest slave trader was half-arab half-african - Tippu Tip- was based in Zanzibar - and established his slave kingdom in DRC congo

obaaderemi:
This stone you are throwing will break your empty skull.

We all know that long after the trans Atlantic slave trade had finished, the East African Indian ocean slavery was still going on. The main thrust of the East African slave trade was for Arab concubinage with your girls and women.
Please don't make me go on.

They make the perfect slaves - docile - unlike Nigerians - so such menial jobs are ideal for them - that is why they were shipped in millions to go work in slavery for 400yrs. If they had taken Hausas or Kenyans - that won't have last even 20yrs - before people revolted. Everytime they took Hausas - they would revolt on the ship - and so they had to take Ghanians and Yorubas and Igbos.

Obakillah:
They call it Green Card. Apparently highly sought after by West African graduates.

When Africa countries assessment are compared - Kenya come top; Kenya teachers scored the highest as is expected.

Look for Ghana at the very bottom with South Africa and Zambia

You mean nurses to go whipe old men? Or when is the last patent created in Ghana.

Just30:
Yet all countries are paying top money to recruit Ghanaian graduates

Have you wondered why they don't consider Kenyans?
The answer is simple, Educational outcomes from your country can not compete with the best of the world because your educational standards are shitty ...

Uk is paying top money to break Ghanaians out of their bonds

Long story short - you do a senior high school - that kenya doesnt - and you sit horrible waesec exam - and your education outcome - are well known. Below even South Africa - where majority blacks historically been messed up.

Just30:
We have change so many things

First we move from the whole form 4 nonsense and also moved away from the O levels and A levels

We then went to a 6-3-3-4 system and now we are running a 9-3-4 system called the Universal Basic Education

This means, 9 years of compulsory Basic education
3 years of Secondary education and 4 years of tertiary...



this has nothing to do with universities abroad accepting your certificate.... it's all about the quality of your certificate

Kenya has sat through couple of TIMSS with Ghana - and as always Kenya came the very top. Our quality of education is not comparable to any country in SSA bad the developed Mauritus. That is why kenya is doing very well without any minerals. Africa best human capital.

Just30:
Yes

we ranked with the best countries in the world... too bad, Kenya was not one of those best countries....

Madness level 1. Ghana was ranked bottom...............bottom....average kid scored 300 marks....about twice as bad as developed world. South Africa beat you. Botswana. And the Arabs nation.

I can understand if Zimbwabwe were to speak quality of education.

Just30:
Should we test your ability right now?

I will give you a chemistry or physics question from WASSCE, I need you to ace it


Your nonsense KCSE is not even recognised internationally yet you want to compete with wassce


Outcomes from wassce are doing marvellous things al over the globe, can anything good come out of KCSE?

You don't even know that your education system is British. When did you change what Brits handed to you. Most British colonies are stuck with same system - except Kenya - when we made switch in 1984 - for Canadian system.

Our system of education is 8-4-4. That means 8 years in primary. 4 years in high school. 4 years in universities. The 1st year even in kenya is foundation - where you study senior high school stuff.

Now we are changing again to another system.

Just30:
we dont do British system either and your years of education has nothing to do with where you are accepted to .....

Its all about the weight of your certificate


Next time don't give a lame excuse


There was a time, I think 20 years ago, that all these unis will immediately reject your Wassce certificate or ask you to do a foundation course ...And we decided to improve WAEC to international standard.....

you guys need to do same for KCSE

Assesment accross countries have been done. Kenya comes top. If you give kenya your crap WASCE - they will ace it - it simple rote learning.

Just30:
Yet if I give you a high school question in Maths, physics or Chemistry you will fail badly because you kenyans are not taught anything in school..




Today, you are saying you dont need a whole bunch of kids going to uni ?


Meanwhile in your country, there is a wholesale pass even if you fail.

Kenya doesnt do British system - of senior high school and then 3 years of university- we do American and Canadian system - where university education is 4yrs.

Kenya kids sit their exam in Form 4 - and join university - where they do pre-university for 1st year - including here in kenya.

Just30:
You are just bitter because your KCSE is not enough to grant you access to these top schools

If you hold kcse, you will have to do a foundation years course in these universities perform they fully accept you for a programme..

Thats to tell you that your kcse is not up to that level

Exams are tough worldwide except in stupid African countries like Nigeria and Ghana - because you really do not need a whole bunch going to universities - they should end up in technical and vocational colleges.

Exams are tough on their own - because there is no other way about it - except we start asking Senior High school kid to name the use of water (12 marks).

Once you shift to analytical examining - from these basic memory tests - then you will get mass failures - and you can work you way up - by improving the quality of teaching and that.

obaaderemi:
You mean kenyan kids are failing exams because the questions are tough.

Are the questions brought from outside Kenya? Or do the examination bodies set questions outside the curriculum? Why didn't they prepare the kids in line with the curriculum so they wouldn't fail so badly?

So many questions begging for answers. But your lame excuse proves what we are saying: Kenyans are just stvpid.

I am sure they accept exams from South Sudan and Somalia too.

Just30:
Most of the top unis in the UK accept WAEC and WASSCE results

University of Sheffield.
The University of Manchester.
University of Birmingham.
University of Portsmouth.
University of Southhampton.
Brunel University London.
University of Kent.
University of Bristol.
South Wales
University of East London
Glasgow
Oxford
Kingston
Bolton
Nottingham
Belfast
Chester
Lancashire
Plymouth and etc

Yes we just uncovered why critical thinking is alien to them.

kikuyu1:
GOODNESS! Just so people KNOW you're NOT unfairly hating. All you WA high school escapees here's a question involving deductive reasoning, logic and essential math.
10 marks!

That is because our exams are very tough - not simplistic like WAEC - the educational output are obvious - kenya has Africa highest HCI - and Africa highest educational standards - and when compared to the countries in self-assessment - only Mauritus (a developed) country measures up.

Just look at your rote learning exams - that just for memorizing and regurgiating - and compare to kenya very analytical exams that develop critical thinking.

obaaderemi:
You Little Indians are just plain stvpid. You love to throw stones that only bounce back to break your empty skulls.

No wonder the display of ignorance by you folks on this thread.

Free reading Ghana Beyond Aid.
http://osm.gov.gh/assets/downloads/ghana_beyond_aid_charter.pdf
The impact of aid (and grants) on the budget is much more significant than what the chart may suggest.
For the overall budget, if we exclude compensation payments (i.e. wages, salaries, allowances, and
pensions), interest payments, and statutory transfers to consider expenditure on just goods and services
and on capital, then the percentage of aid averaged 38.3 percent over 2016 to 2018, while grants alone
averaged 21.2 percent. This feature is even more pronounced in the expenditure of some of the
Ministries and Services. For example, from 2016 to 2018, for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and
for the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, aid as a percentage of Government of Ghana financed
expenditures on goods and services and on capital averaged 102.8 and 312.1 percent respectively. The
percentages were 22.7 and 46.9 respectively for the Ministry Education and the Ministry of Health; and
for the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection, and the Ministry of Local Government,
they were 54.3 percent and 104.1 percent. Again, the lower percentages for 2018 reflect the downward
movement, but still the levels are significant.
What these numbers suggest is that for a number of Ministries and Services, while Government pays
salaries, the abilities of these paid staff to actually operate and deliver to the people (i.e. through goods,
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services, and capital expenditure) are severely constrained without donors. So, even though
Government pays the bulk of the expenditure, at the margin donors get to be rather influential in shaping
priorities and determining what is actually done by those MDAs that rely significantly on donors for
operational resources.
Our target is to steadily increase Ghana Government’s own contribution to the budget, and:
 For the overall budget—reduce grants as a percentage of Government of Ghana
budgetary expenditure on goods and services and on capital from the average of 21.2
percent (from 2016 to 2018) to below 5 percent by the end of 2023 and to below 2 by
the end of 2028;
 For every Ministry and Service--reduce grants as a percentage of Government of Ghana
budgetary expenditure on goods and services and on capital to no more than 10 percent
by 2023, and below 5 percent by 2028;
 Any aid (concessional loans or grants) will have to be aligned with Ghana’s
transformation strategy and priorities in order to be accepted into the budget;
 There will be no ceiling on long-term concessional loans that promote economic
transformation and growth by financing infrastructure, skills development, and
scientific and technological capacity development at the post-secondary levels.
 Starting from 2020, it will be unacceptable for any Ghanaian public official to accept
workshop and meeting allowances and per diems within Ghana from donors

WAEC Senior High maths is comparable to kenya primary exam
https://www.myschoolgist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WASSCE_Gen-Maths1_2011.pdf

Kenya primary exam
https://www.atikaschool.org/uploads/6/0/4/0/60406393/maths-atikaschooldotorg764.pdf

Yes I'd put Zimbwabwe next to kenya - it a shame they have nearly lost it during their economic mess - but definitely I would rank Zimbabwe education VERY HIGHLY.

AfriqueDuZuid:
Even Zimbabweans make claims of being very educated

Back to real things, REAL ESTATE

My kid this year was sitting for Cambridge checkpoint primary exam for yr 6 (grade six)

Check this sample science exam. Tell me if West African Senior High school kid can pass this primary exam. And you wonder why Africans we are still in stone age.

https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/Images/25174-science-specimen-paper-1-2014-2017.pdf

No abcd, not direct question for rote learning kind of memorization and regurgiation, you need to have really understood the concepts to answer the questions.

NTSA:
Btw in France highschool kids have philosophy as one of the core subjects.sometime back the final year question for the philosophy exam was" Is all truth final?"...This means that the kids are taught to apply knowledge which is different from just answering questions.
From the examples I have seen here ,a primary school kid in Kenya can easily pass west African highschool exams.

Okay in kenya continuous yellow line - is to avoid overtaking. I am glad they are fixing their inner roads. I sometimes think the current president is all talk and no show. He seems to like talking BIG like KWAME Nkrumah.

popizaino:
I think it's a form of beautification and demarcation and some in the middle of the road serves as road signal especially for pedestrian crossing.

Your IQ is almost like that of a monkey to the Average white and Asian man. Sadly they lumped it to all Africans while Kenyans are trying to raise it educational and reasoning standards.

Vlain:
I gladly reiterate

High IQ - YES
DRug trafficking-NO

High IQ and Nigeria. Use it to develop your country. Every country I have gone to, you infest public parks, streets, train stations and name it pushing drugs. All over walking with bags - selling drugs - except in America continent - where you slave cousins - the black americans - are doing it.

You really give Africa a bad name. That is why getting a visa is so hard for many African countries. They just see another pest to infest their public spaces pushing drugs.

Vlain:
Drug trafficking-No
Yahoo - yes
High IQ - YES

This was mostly for my own good - to solve the puzzle of why you sound this infantile.

Vlain:
Nope they accept it because it’s meets the standard they want. U might think otherwise but it’s doesn’t matter- u are a nobody.

Okay the white median continous line supposed to mean what? Dont overtake? Low speed?

popizaino:
Yes it was just been paved,probably a dusty road some times back.

Every country I have gone to Nigeria are associated with drug pushing on the streets - drug trafficking too much for their punny brains - and funny yahoo games.

Vlain:
Drug trafficking I doubt that-yahoo yes- High IQ yes.

They must be crazy to accept output from such a system unless it to help Africa basket case - affarmative action.

Vlain:
Try Dayton university.This is just a list out of many. Heck some unis in Uk doesn’t need u writing any extra exam.just come with a jamb s ore above 300 and a credited waec and u are in.