Why Can't We Mine & Process ALL Minerals In A-freaker?

We process soda ash from Lake Magadi. Nini hatuna wadau?

Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of coffee during 2019.

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[li]Brazil: US$4.6 billion (15.1% of total coffee exports)[/li][li]Colombia: $2.6 billion (8.7%)[/li][li]Switzerland: $2.5 billion (8.3%)[/li][li]Vietnam: $2.41 billion (8%)[/li][li]Germany: $2.37 billion (7.9%)[/li][li]Italy: $1.7 billion (5.8%)[/li][li]France: $1.2 billion (4.1%)[/li][li]Honduras: $1.1 billion (3.5%)[/li][li]Indonesia: $879.4 million (2.9%)[/li][li]Belgium: $846.9 million (2.8%)[/li][li]Ethiopia: $836.6 million (2.8%)[/li][li]United States: $822.5 million (2.7%)[/li][li]Netherlands: $806.2 million (2.7%)[/li][li]Guatemala: $663.8 million (2.2%)[/li][li]Peru: $621.3 million (2.1%)[/li][/ol]
Now tell me how many of these countries produce raw coffee?
And do you think they would allow you to sell them processed coffee?
And take jobs from their manufacturing industries?
Now replace coffee with other commodities from Africa…
Tea?
Titanium?
Oil?
Cocoa?
Cotton?

Good question

Crony capitalism & cartels.
Once Africans start manufacturing, their quality of life will go up European quality of life goes down.
Moi era made coffee farming very unproductive, I was in Banana a while ago and people uprooted coffee trees to put up apartments. It’s very sad but I can’t blame them. People need to eat.

Switzerland exports coffee!!!

NESCAFE is Nestle Company. 100% Swiss

Swiss also makes Chocolates from West African Cocoa Beans. I saw a documentary about Cameroon where some villagers have NEVER seen a Chocolate bar as of 2018

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@cortedivoire ingekua inaprocess chocolates zake ingekua mbali saidi.

Where will they sell them?
Most importantly, which Western countries will allow them to take away “their” manufacturing jobs?

Until such a time that we become end users, we will forever be stuck at the bottom of the value chain.

What would we do with the coffee we export if the west bannes our exports?

Where would we take the flowers that bring in a billion dollars each year and employ hundreds of thousands?

Africa is just too fragmented to extort meaningful concessions from the west and China.
We need to grow our base economies and fikisha per capita income usd 5000. From there if we act with one voice tutaskizwa.In the world, you get what you deserve.

Wakatae kuexport raw cocoa

What if the west refuses to import the processed chocolate under the guise of quality, child labour or other excuses?

Hio yote watauzia nani?

You need to understand how economic power and coercion works in the world stage.
Gunboat diplomacy is still a thing

Halafu wanyimwe loans for development…
Sema kufinywa balls.
254 was coerced to continue importing mitumba…

Import mitumba and kill our cotton industry.

Non tariff barriers.
Like what China is doing to Australia.
USA is doing to China.
Tz is doing to Kenya.

The number one reason is that you will run into cartels on the processing side. Their agents are in government offices. Some are politicians and through them, they have written into law things that makes it extremely difficult to join that trade.

For example, you want to process sugar from cane. Simple thing thats been done for hundreds of years. The process takes 3-4 hours. Juicing, steaming and then cutting the crystals. A little machinery from China you are in business. Right.

But no. Sijui you have to get a molasses permit. Sijui you have to apply for a mill operating license with an application fee of 1m and is valid only for a year. And you have to go through county governments and National governments verification. There now you meet officers not willing to process your paperwork. You will be zungushwad paka you puke. Start by standing on a que for 5 days and getting nothing done. And your 1m application fee may malaysia. Those chuttahs who own the processing plants have paid them off to stall any paperwork. They do not want any competition. They themselves import the sugar, btw. They dont process most of it.

Companies make sweets everyday from sugar with little paperwork. Some make juice, icecream, kools, etc, things way harder than making sugar from cane. How much harder is it to make sugar to justify all these requirements. Sugar’s been around for hundreds of years.

Project this to all your industries.

Because African leaders and their families got lot’s of money from wazungu for mining rights.

Some were loaned massive amounts of money and as collateral, wakapeana mines. Oh, and almost all the money from the loan ilikuliwa.

That’s why even after 50yrs, shit holes like Congo haipati anything from their minerals.

Mtaani kuna politicians meffi sana wanafikiria civil war kila saa

because Africans are not in control of such minerals, the beneficiary of the revenues isn’t the common African , western-backed companies, lobbyists and leaders are milking the continent dry

You don’t process soda ash from Lake Magadi. Tata Magadi is a foreign company. They own a railway, and land worth billions of shillings. They don’t pay anything meaningful to your treasury.