That is how it has always been in Bonobostan. Unlike chilli munchers who teach their children the ropes at an early age.
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Take a look at the Tursky’s Brothers, Njenga Karume, Michukis, Akamba Bus Brothers the list is endless. I am sure hata kwa kijiji yenu kuna watoi wa matajiri who during their dads’ hayday walikuwa wanaishi kama wafalme but today they roam around chang’aa dens begging for Ksh 10 watoe lock.
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Tukiwa Primo kuna majamaa walikuwa wana dropiwa academy asubuhi na Volvo ya mama yao na jioni wanakujiwa na SAAB ya baba yao ikiwa na driver sisi tukiwa DEB. Their dad used to export curios to Sweden in the 1980s i think huko ndio akapenda magari za Sweden. When their parents passed away majamaa waliachiwa Hardware shops na lorries kadhaa. In just two years the two dudes were broke as fvck having bankrupted the businesses and canibalised one truck to repair the others. One jamaa died in 2019 from liver failure the other walks around in unlatching shoes.
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Akina Njenga Karume, Tuskys grew dirt poor so they toiled hard and became millionaires, their children found money in the bank so they know not the trouble their dads passed through, so their job is partying like there is no tomorrow and sueing each other. Lawyers benefit from them a big deal.
Waafrika walikataa kuonyesha watoto wao biashara kabisa mi nakumbuka nikiwa mtoi beste wangu muarabu alikuwa ana kam na gari home kwetu…sato na sunday kama hatuko chuo…yuko kwa supa ya budake nyuma ya counter kama cashier…naongea kuhusu kijana tulikuwa class 8 na yeye…guess yuko wapi saa i…
Si kukataa but you can’t pass on qualities you don’t possess in the first place.
Kids BTW know mali umechokea and illegally gotten and kuna moja huheshimu ingine ni kubonda…
Take the example of a corrupt government employee mwenye amejaza flats na kickbacks, how will he teach his kids vile biashara hukua run?
Or some guy who is a supplier and biashara hukuja juu ya relationships zile umeform over the years, how do you transfer that to your kids?
The nature of our businesses zimekua one man shows and only the owner knows how everything runs.Once he’s out of the picture, everything falls apart Chinua Achebe style.
Best example is wakina Trump. The old man immigrated to US akaanzisha biz from nothing akawachia Donald Trump and now Trump ameingisha his kids uko ndani.
A lot of black African billionaires do not do that.
Strong men make good times. Good times makes weak men. Weak men makes bad times. Bad times makes strong men. Strong men makes good times… The cycle continues.
A man toils and suffers to create wealth. Children come up in tht wealth find comfort and good life unaware of what it takes to create such. Eventually after the founder if the business is long gone, the business shuts down. The children bring up their children in abject poverty. Their children work hard to escape the shackled of poverty, only to be ket down by their children. In short, wacheni hii ujinga ya ati my children will never live the life I lived. Yes, they wont in terms of opportunities and education, but nothing should be handed down to anybody easily without them putting in the work. It breeds a toxic culture of laziness and entitlement.
Kindly don’t generalise kuna exceptions,for instance great grandfather ya @PHARMACY alikuwa anauzia waarabu matako, grandfather naye alikuwa anauzia mzungu, pharmacy na baba yake naye hadi wa leo wanauzia muhindi matako
Tucker Carlson recently said something which I thought was so profound. He said that there are two kinds of people in the world today. A clear cut duality. Those who build and those who tear down, and not just the physical things which can be seen or touched like generational wealth in the form of Tusky supermarket but immaterial things like great philosophies, cultures, laws. Evil and darkness is drowning out the light.
Wrong, whatever I have my dad played a part, if you did it solo congratulations. That said, it’s every man’s job to make sure their progeny succeeds.I will do as what my past generations did…guide them to a soft landing till they mature to fight it alone.
NB: If you aren’t aware life is not getting easy, I will do my part…I decline your line of reason. The difference between us and the wealthy Asians is your reasoning.
As usual, bonobos popping out of nowhere with their basement IQ. Bro if your dad ownded Akamba, or Tuskeys, then yes youre right. If not shut up please.
Mali ya uma hurudi kwa uma one way or another. Mimi niko na uncle yangu. Very rich. All his kids wako majuu and none of them wants to come back. If they are not careful mali yao itskuliwa na property managers or by the trusts
You can do better than that. That is the most slay queenish and single motherish reply. “Who hurt you? Why are you so bitter?” How does bile comes in this sort of discussion?? What I am simply trying to say is that, you cannot disparage an entire quote made about falling businesses and entire case studies just because you had it well with your dad. Granted, there are so many people whose dads imparted them wisdom and knowledge. But how many do you know that sucessfully carried their family’s business across generations??
On this I actually blame the parents. Our african parents wanaficha kila kitu hadi hakuna business continuity. They don’t wean their children into the business.
For example, if you own a group of schools, first thing ni kuskuma 1 child awe mwalimu and teach him the ropes. The other awe accountant and you employ him in one of the schools. Ile siku utaenda majamaa watakuwa sawa sana.