@mariahsudi ?

This is very relevant in the age of social media where people see a few posts and believe they are "experts" on topics they've never actually studied.

Manufacturing doesn’t grow in isolation, it drags agriculture, logistics, energy, mining, skills development, and technology adoption along with it. That multiplier effect is why it has historically been the backbone of structural transformation. Growth is not transformation.

So we have software engineers earning 60k USD per month in Kenya and we haven't seen anything innovative yet or even fully working systems , apart from what safaricom keeps coming up with.

@Brainiarc7 "I'm NOT doing that labor for you" is the most honest thing you've said in this thread. You've never done that labor for anyone, including yourself. Ksh 500k/month costs me Ksh 700k+ to deliver. Good luck with convincing clients to pay for that. I asked you to show the math.

One person I can never argue with on Twitter is Lennox Omondi. That guy uses data in everything. You cannot outsmart him

The Kenya Bankers Association is lobbying for a 5 percentage-point cut across all income bands, arguing that higher taxes have eroded purchasing power, including the ability to take and service loans. I concur; we can’t tax our way to economic growth. Further, lower taxation

I told a clever asshat here even if the wasteman from Gatundu leaves, it will still be built. I am sure AfDB wonders what else they can do to increase access to Addis. They can fund Mwingi - Kyuso - Tseikuru - Usueni - Kianjai - Isiolo and connect it to Lamu & Mombasa Ports.

That debt she is talking about, Washikane na Bwanake Kamotho walipe. We owe Ruto nothing

Yesterday we ensiled 10T of maize silage. We've struggled with space. So we decided to convert one of big rooms into cubicles measuring 8x4x8 ft. We've built five stones and left a window like space that we close using wood frame and board after loading and compacting. Each

Bruuuh, the North cannot be helped...huyu ndiye anaenda kukuwa next Governor wa Garissa

Cleaning up towns surrounding our campuses, improving university infrastructure and capacity, and attracting international students are the lowest-hanging fruits Kenya has allowed to drop and rot by the wayside. The lack of ambition within our leadership class is nauseating.

I like this strategy of ring fencing funds. When you have housing and stadiums competing with education and healthcare needs in the same budget you will sure as hell end up building nothing.

No serious country cannibalizes infrastructure to fund consumption.

That moment when ODM wing ya Oburu fails to get enough numbers to withdraw from Azimio coalition so a coup will have been actualized and now those who want to support Ruto have to join UDA or form another party😂

This treats electrification as a welfare metric. Ethiopia treats it as industrial policy. Cheap power to factories builds the economy that later finances universal household access. Also, this is a history snapshot, not a trajectory, and ignores 3-phase industrial load.

This is why electricity, not transport, was the subtitle of The Time Travelling Economist

Funny thing life has taught me is that L's and W's aren't permanent. High flying one day, trenches the next. Ms in income. Ms in debt and vice versa. So long as you are mentally tough enough to rideout out the hard times you probably will bounce back.

Bungoma County just diverted funding set aside for their CAIP to fund boba boda. Still puzzled. Governor interested in boda boda economy over actual, gainful, long-term employment that'll guarantee GDP growth. The CAIP infra ameona ni kama ni wastage kubwa sana.

If you know math, can code, have a little above average IQ, and good grasp of GenAI, poverty is a choice.

Close those laptops beloved. You have done enough.