Na venye akina Joho and co usually ball with billionaires utadhani they’ve done their jobs. Hawa wase pia wanakaa akili pungwani kiasi… Have you ever had a real conversation na mtu wa coast you sense a certain weightlessness about them. Ama ni mnazi na madre mingi hata their women appear and talk a bit spacey, watu hawakai serious na maisha.
Although this could just be a symptom of the mental anguish they’ve undergone all these centuries under Arabic /Swahili mercenaries. Unajua coast regions all the way to Pemba and Zanzibar zilikua thriving slave capture zones and markets. Ongeza debilitating Islam in the mix unaona its a hopeless situation
Waah poorer than even pokot huko… that’s heartbreaking considering how close they are to the ocean, si waamue seafaring hata kaa ni pyracy juu hata kenya navy haina capacity ya kupatrol samaki yote inibwa na wageni
Mombasa is not badly off.
Kilifi & kwale( 20 kms away from the offshore ni tafash).
Halafu some billionaires were thinking of acquiring land in those interiors, you will never blend with the existing communities there kimawazo na kimaendeleo.
Have you ever been thier…wajamaa ni jaba na youths the only thing that comes to mind ni boda boda…fishermen ndio wako na respect yangu either way hio place you cant farm dry as fuck by 8.00am jua inakaa ya saa 8…huko ni poa vacation from september to march hapo.
We need serious extensive research-historical and scientific, to understand why coastal peoples are “idle”, lethargic and generally slow.
How has tourism, sex tourism, the proliferation of substances and alienation from their ancestral lands affected them? Slave trade?