Truth be told 90Percent of businesses in Nairobi CBD are still run by Kikuyus

[Pepi]

@Kibinda_Nkoye

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Pepi:

That’s because Nairobi is closer to Central and so shares many characteristics with Central.

Now that Nairobi also neighbours the kamba and maasai, why are they not in the picture as prominent business owners.
JUST THINKING ALOUD

A substantial population from central is 15 minutes away from the city, while Kambas and Maasai have always been at least 2 hours away from the city (when you factor in transport dynamics). Essentially, this central population are city residents during the day.

[Mickey_Bricks]

Empires decline when they get complacent. Then they get replaced by new ones that adapt to the times.

Egypt > Assyria > Babylon > Persia > Greece > Rome > Ottoman > Britain > USA > China

In the first half of the 1900s, Indians dominated the economy coz the British allowed them to do so, and the British banned Africans from doing the same. Not that Indians were smarter or more hardworking than the Africans.

Kikuyus learnt from the Indians and the British, and so in the second half of the 1900s, Kikuyu economic power rose at the expense of waning British and Indian economic power. Mainly due to proximity to Nairobi and favourable state patronage.

More than any other community, Kikuyus were getting formal education, and getting introduced into the formal and informal economy. The other communities still lived the subsistence lifestyle.

In these early 2000s, the Somalis have joined the game in a big way. Economic power is shifting from the Kikuyus to the Somalis. In 20 years, the Somalis have transformed Eastleigh into a poor man’s version of Dubai. Meanwhile, the area between River Road and Kirinyaga road is still stuck in the 1950s, with cheap bars and brothels. Complacency. Kisiis are increasing their stake in the transport sector.

In 100 years, economic power will be more evenly distributed across all communities, more like in Western European countries.

[eddy_mahelo]

@RV_Pundit

…ntire economy.
nairobi is kikuyu land stolen by the britishi colonizers. The whole of karura forest was the private land of a man called karura. His grave is still somehwere inside the forest

Nairobi is not original Kikuyu land !!
Thats why its name is not a Kikuyu word
Its truly shocking that a grown man can tokelezea here mbele ya wanaume and say stuff like that,
Ati Karura alikua mzee fulani !!

when i hear these kind of arguments i just know am dealing with people who don’t read history.no offense
Nairobi the metropolis(not necessarily the county) was occupied by Kikuyus in the general north area, masais in the south western side and Kambas towards far south east.
What we call the CBD was mostly a swamp, a part of it was a place the 3 tribes met to exchange goods.
If you argue about names, even Eldoret is a Masai name.

[Straw_man]

@eddy_mahelo

…ments i just know am dealing with people who don’t read history.no offense
Nairobi the metropolis(not necessarily the county) was occupied by Kikuyus in the general north area, masais in the south western side and Kambas towards far south east.
What we call the CBD was mostly a swamp, a part of it was a place the 3 tribes met to exchange goods.
If you argue about names, even Eldoret is a Masai name.

Na Lessos in eldoret is also maasai.

[slevyn]

ebu tuonyeshe kibandaski yako ya maembe kwanza

[Straw_man]

@poyoloko

Sijawai ingia mjengo nikakosa mjaka from the simiti boy to the brick layer wote ni wajaka slaving away , isipokua foreman architect na mwenye nyumba. Tuendelee…next

You are a very disagreeable cunt, aren’t you?

[Jack_Black]

@cortedivoire

Pia lanye

Good point. 95% of prostitutes are Kikuyus.

Move somewhere else if you don’t like the prostitutes economy.

[Sanchez11]

@slevyn

ebu tuonyeshe kibandaski yako ya maembe kwanza

I am an online entrepreneur in the city

[Mikymas]

@Pepi

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Now that Nairobi also neighbours the kamba and maasai, why are they not in the picture as prominent business owners.
JUST THINKING ALOUD

A substantial population from central is 15 minutes away from the city, while Kambas and Maasai have always been at least 2 hours away from the city (when you factor in transport dynamics). Essentially, this central population are city residents during the day.

Areyou saying 2 hours is life and death in business?

[Mikymas]

@Mickey_Bricks

…n 20 years, the Somalis have transformed Eastleigh into a poor man’s version of Dubai. Meanwhile, the area between River Road and Kirinyaga road is still stuck in the 1950s, with cheap bars and brothels. Complacency. Kisiis are increasing their stake in the transport sector.
In 100 years, economic power will be more evenly distributed across all communities, more like in Western European countries.

If somalis arr so grat at business why is somalia a shit hole

[Pepi]

@Mikymas

…ai, why are they not in the picture as prominent business owners.
JUST THINKING ALOUD
A substantial population from central is 15 minutes away from the city, while Kambas and Maasai have always been at least 2 hours away from the city (when you factor in transport dynamics). Essentially, this central population are city residents during the day.

Areyou saying 2 hours is life and death in business?

That is equivalent to 300 shillings by public means or 700 shillings by personal car. Alafu kabiashara bado kanakua.

[Mikymas]

@Pepi

…entral is 15 minutes away from the city, while Kambas and Maasai have always been at least 2 hours away from the city (when you factor in transport dynamics). Essentially, this central population are city residents during the day.
Areyou saying 2 hours is life and death in business?

That is equivalent to 300 shillings by public means or 700 shillings by personal car. Alafu kabiashara bado kanakua.

Are you saying the only thing keeping people from making it in business is fair of 200 to nairobi? Is that your official know position?

[Pepi]

@Mikymas

…n transport dynamics). Essentially, this central population are city residents during the day.
Areyou saying 2 hours is life and death in business?
That is equivalent to 300 shillings by public means or 700 shillings by personal car. Alafu kabiashara bado kanakua.

Are you saying the only thing keeping people from making it in business is fair of 200 to nairobi? Is that your official know position?

Are you purporting to be a business expert, in addition to restraining animals during injections? And managing a political party in the US?