You should have banged the table, teared their visa and turned back. If you and few hundreds do so, how long will they last? Hotels? Tours and travels companies? It's time we stopped begging these fellows. I don't know what business conference they can host that can't be hosted in Kenya,Rwanda or UG.

Mfupa aliyoshindwa Fisi wewe taweza?

Pole sana.
Been there on a bad day. The bile they hold for Kenyans....as a Cord member you'd rather go to Uhuru park on a 1st June.

Visit Nakumatt City for a feel-at-home experience - if you know what I mean and its on the shelves.

Also try to walk tall - you are many times ahead in almost all sensible indicators (literacy, political maturity , economy, strategic planning.... Right now they are basking on trade coup on pipeline and railway. Little do they know how devious the Rw and Ug twins are. They just want T3 to also build infrastructure for them to strengthen bargaining power.

Meanwhile S.Sudan recently became EAC member... Ethiopia can technically join as well.

Those 2 economies are perfect for Kenya: consumerist, low agricultural and industrial output, (and no coherent plan towards that direction) but with good amount of mouths to feed.

SA has discovered that T3 is not relevant economically unlike Zim (dumpsite) and Mozambique (state farms). As a matter of fact, there is over 5 times SA investments in Ke compared to T3 (fdi intelligence; in dollar terms).

Our warts and all, Ke is still the most viable country with progressive economic and investment climate across the East half of Africa (Egypt, SA, Rwanda and Mauritius included). Our vibrant politics being a big force multiplier.

When I worked in tz for a while I found them very welcoming and kind of showed too much respect to kenyans, during that period I did not have a passport and used to go to nyayo house to get that temporary permit paper and the immigration guys at tz always used to tell me - 'mwenye hadhi kama wewe unatembea na makaratasi'. That seemed odd to me considering I was just a hustler going to stick a flashdisk in a server and click on install.

I think magufuli is really trying hard to beef up their confidence, and to make them feel as equals, not to see Kenya as the very big brother.