Kumbusha watu that we had 3 types of schools in Kenya!
"European schools", "Asian Schools" and "African Native schools". Hebu muulize kwao nyumbani nani alikuwa amesoma hivyo... siku za mkoloni?
Mzungu always believed that the mental development of the average African adult was equivalent to that of the average 7-8 year old European boy!

This is how the infant mortality looked like...

the reason we are 45 million africans from 7 million hardly 55 years ago is because life GOT BETTER FOR THE AVERAGE KENYAN!! All indications point to it!

It doesn't necessarily follow. In fact, there was a time there were people but no Kenya...

But we can't think without exaggeration...

22? Urongo. Then how come all communities had old grey haired and toothless elders? How come our ancestors were polygamous with many grandchildren and great grandchildren?

Africa was not all doom and gloom as you are putting it. That is why even countries like ethiopia were (and are) doing ok even without colonization. You shouldn't believe all mzungu propaganda.

A responsible Gava is supposed to provide low cost housing. This used to happen. There are many City council estates still in existence that were built by wakoloni like jamhuri estate on Ngong road, Jericho in Eastlands etc.

Above all, gava is supposed to incentivize the private sector to build low cost housing e.g. by providing cheap land for investors who want to build houses. But instead of doing this, Kenyatta and his goons went about grabbing valuable land in Nairobi and its environs and quickly selling it to speculators.

Instead of enforcing the kipande rule, gava can relocate people upcountry by moving its operations to other towns. Not every parastatal and ministry must have its headquarters in Nairobi. You can move those jobs to other towns. Responsible governments do this elsewhere to address congestion.

Finally gava is responsible for planning a city so that the growth is managed. No planning is ever done in Kenya. Just shady deals that result in public land being grabbed and quickly resold. No wonder the city is a mess. Road reserves land were stolen long ago so traffic is a mess. The city is always flooded because drainage channels were built over. Garbage is choking the city because landfills were stolen. All because Kenyatta created the culture of land grabbing.


This is very simplistic from you. Thieving is not the only issue. Other issues are incompetent political appointees, high crime, ethnic tension (this dissuades people from investing)...

But ujue Tanzania is passing Kenya and has passed Kenya in many ways.
On top of passing Kenya economically, they they have no ethnic tension and low crime. The last two are the legacy of Julius Nyerere
While Nyerere preached equality amoing tribes, Kenyatta fueled ethnic tension with his irresponsible murders of innocent people from other tribes. And by creating a siege mentality among his people.


Lets take kibaki for example. He is responsible for the death of 3000 people during PEV 2008 and many more before that. He was in power for 10 years. I don’t think mukoloni killed that many people during a 10 year span


Now look at Jomo Kenyatta: He fueled ethnic tension by killing leaders from other ethnic groups. It can be said therefore that he is the root cause of most of the ethnic tension that has happened in Kenya and therefore the deaths of people who died even in PEV 2008 can be attributed to Kenyatta. Had he fostered peace like Nyerere, perhaps all these deaths would not happen.



Moi himself said “Kenya ina wenyewe”: By that I think he meant that the power must be kept amongst the corrupt royal families at all costs.
If Kenya haina wenyewe then UK should agree to electoral reforms so that every 5 years we don’t have people questioning whether the elections were rigged

Every 5 years people die needlessly because they think their votes were stolen. I fully blame Uhuru Kenyattta for all the people who died in the most recent election including that 5 year old Moraa. I blame him because Uhuru can act like a good leader and ensure that henceforth , all elections are transparent. Kibaki should have done the same before he left office. Instead these people want to ensure that every election is opaque so that the corrupt royal families can continue rigging elections.

If the @Masukuma hypothesis about longevity under slavery is true, then one would wonder whether it's better to live for long as a dull fool than live a short and beautiful life.

Has he been here(Riara Ridge) in shiny new suit and crying louder than us?

All? People like Ngunyi and Kiai from Nyeri were always against Kibaki. Kiai is still there. The case against Uhuru during the repeat poll last year was filed by Njonjo Mue, mtu ya huko kwa kina Uhuru

Hata sijataja Ndii

About time we spared our trees for caskets... unless they use firewood to cremate

Methinks it was tasteless to read out names of people who supposedly opposed Matiba during his fight for multipartyism?
If Matiba was a true democrat then he must have appreciated that others were entitled to air contrary opinions too.
To call out names of people on one's funeral (some of whom are dead or were present) merely because they disagreed with the deceased-as if he were an infallible saint- is the height of arrogance.
If Matiba had a grudge against his opposers in life, it was, like for us all, his own to carry or dispose off and anyone else arrogating to themselves that responsibility is a cheap con!
It's fair to record that Mabita only saw the light because he had lost favour with Moi yet there're lots of other people who had been agitating for pluralism much earlier and for longer.