Having lived in the USA for a while now, I have observed that all human beings are the same. To be honest, no government builds a country. The country is built by the people: starting up small businesses and creating employment for others. Creating new technologies and building machines to improve our lives. All you need to do is empower your people to think and let them implement their thinking.
America has very little to do with its government but much to do with individual innovation and creativity: The biggest companies in the world: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, Apple, etc are not government-owned like our Safaricom. American Airlines: Delta, American Airlines, etc are not public companies like Kenya Airways. They’re all privately-owned companies and they employ millions of Americans through technology and innovation.
The best universities in the USA (Ivy League: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Duke, etc) are not public universities like the UON. The best and most technologically advanced research hospitals (John Hopkins, Mayo, Cleveland Clinics, etc) are privately owned and run. The military technology you see America flaunting across the world is not built by the government: the planes, aircraft carriers, bombers, missiles, etc, are developed and built by private companies as sold to the army.
So my point is, the development will never come from Statehouse! Statehouse can only divide the cake it collects from Boda Boda riders, matatu operators, government employees, peasants, etc!
Mitsubishi, Mazda, Toyota, Isuzu, Daihatsu, Nissan, Subaru, etc are all privately owned Japanese car manufacturers that have single-handedly built the 3rd biggest economy in euros.
My point is: we can whine and complain about the government but until we do the real work, the thinking, the innovation, etc, and create our own technologies to sell to the world, we will continue being poor and hungry.
We must stop the stupidity of growing labor-intensive, minimal return crops like tea and coffee, and invest in technology instead. We sell Japan a whole ton of tea leaves to be enjoyed by all of Tokyo in a month and in exchange they give us one Subaru
The UK sells Kenya one Land Rover for 2million shillings(Remember to build one Land Rover every 5 minutes!) we give them 2 tons of tea picked for a whole week by 2000 people processed over another two weeks by over 100 people. In short, we are engaged in a colonial activity that generates almost nothing for […]