Arent we dumb facks? We are still economically colonized because we are dumb facks, blacks are the only low IQ dumb facks whos resources is owned by other peoples and they allow it.
It wasn’t minimal, it was just practised by a few. The most affected aspect was land and tenders were still being dished out on a who knows who basis. Companies couldn’t be established without parting with a certain percentage inform of shares. Don’t sanitise theft or try to dichotomise it. The only advantage your sweetheart Kenyatta had was that he lived at an age when we weren’t technologically advanced. It took many years for people to realize the mess that his leadership had left us in.
Don’t forget also Githunguri is usually adversely mentioned on the same…
No sir the original sin rests with Mzee, Moi just became obscenely sinful
Every leader comes with his own sins -jomo majored in land grabbing, But Jomo did not fuck up the economy, moi was a systematic economic terrorist.
Same way we are being dazzled by railways and highways by chinaman?
Strange how you don’t see the relationship between land grabbing and economic stagnation. Land is the biggest factor of production and property rights have to be protected at all costs else capital flight. This is simply because no one wants to invest in something that can be grabbed in a minute. Huko majuu they protect property rights like shirt. Hata police can’t just enter one’s property at will.
Isn’t land a factor of production?
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my fren story ya huyu acha niangushe kesho.
riwe riwaro
I don’t deny land grabbing was a factor in stagnation, and am not trying to sanitize Jomo, but look at it this way, our economic stagnation from 80s to early 2000s was not cause by land allocation. It was by institutional fuck-up… from education,health, zero accountability ,fucked judiciary, methodical destruction of key economic sectors , corrupt police system, having selfish idiots in key decision making bodies.
I don’t want to be harsh, but with the right revolutionary govt not embolden to the dynasties of Jomo and Moi, over 70% of grabbed land can be recovered. But how can you recover from 30yrs of institutional mediocrity ???
When Jomo was “exiting” KE was still on the right path on very key economic indicators.
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Show us who’s written a better detailed chronicle of Kikuyu ways than Leakey, we will wait. Let us not mix issues. It’s not about race. It’s about one sneaky man.
Nmekom late to the table. It’s an interesting twist to the issue of the book Facing mount Kenya. Yenyewe the deep kikuyu culture as articullated therein haiwes kuwa ni thoughts ya msungu, unless Kinyatta was dictating and the msungu was writting. Probably there is another angle to the whole authorship of the book that we still don’t know.
Kamau wa ngengi started writing an autobiography na hakumaliza
Even if its proven he didnt write it, I cant hold that against him. Dozens of politicians have books written for them by others. People like JFK didnt write “Profile In Courage”. It was basically written by his speech writer. Here’s an excerpt from wikipedia about the guy who actually wrote the book:
During January 1953, the 24-year-old Sorensen became the new Senator John F. Kennedy’s chief legislative aide. He wrote many of Kennedy’s articles and speeches.[5]:357–359 In his 2008 autobiography Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, Sorensen said he wrote “a first draft of most of the chapters” of John F. Kennedy’s 1957 book Profiles in Courage and "helped choose the words of many of its sentences.
So basically, such tactics are very common among politicians.