@sparkly it doesn't have to be said ,it has everything to do with what we see.till even Donald Trump said they steal from their own countries and go hide their loot in their previous colonial masters. So it's a culture that's cultivated and passed from generation to generation

That's good to read and hear about, but we are in a country that majority of your tax money can't be accounted for by the county governments who we voted for.

My respected friend MaichBlack you have mentioned good about stereotyping. I agree. I would love to hear your thoughts about this article

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One more thing @enyands, PhDs, scientists etc in the west don't do research because they are smarter or are more predisposed to research!!! They do it mainly for one reason. Research in the West Pays!!! It pays much better than most other jobs. And it is not your responsibility as the researcher to monetize your invention or research findings in most cases. In a lot of cases, it works in reverse. A company that wants a solution to a certain problem approaches a university, group of researchers or a research institute and "sponsors" research on that specific problem. This money is used to pay the researchers hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars each! Actually, lecturers in the West don't moonlight. You make astronomically much more doing research.

A good number of wazuans have advanced degrees and know very well that in Kenya/Africa, research ends up being just that. Research. Your well bound thesis just gathers dust in the library and once in a while another candidate dusts it as he is looking to further his own research!!!

And you cannot blame the individuals. They live in a county where even toothpicks are imported.

Others innovate, finance and even turn their findings into end products - like energy saving jikos, machines etc, then what happens? The design is copied and everyone re-produces what you researched on for years. You can obtain copyrights and whatever else you want but who is enforcing them???

Unless your kids can eat research findings, and the landlord can accept papers published in peer reviewed journals as rent, you find yourself turning to basic money making ventures before anyone can say "Research"!

MaichBlack having come from where maize is grown, did you know that Kenya seed company with their maize hybrids H685 and the rest have made it in a way that once you harvest you cannot replant it. So our own Africans are doing the same as to what Monsanto are doing.

I think western colonization is much better that our own african leadership colonization, reason being the western don't know some of our cultures (eg mau mau chased British) but when you have your own african Colonizers colonizing you its worse because they know your weaknesses and strength like what's happening now.