The first fabric is a cotton shirt from Dolce & Gabbana worth USD 780 or KSH 100,000
The second fabric is a cotton shirt made locally and it would cost approximately USD 30 or KSH 3,800
Same cotton. Different brands.
The first fabric is bought by politicians and 'local elites' who looted the local industries that made the second fabric.
Afrika's poverty is institutionalised and then embedded deep in our heads.
The impoverishment of the afrikan economy is extractive, intentional and systemic.
The people who perpetuate the dehumanisation of Africans are the so-called elite Africans who are graduates from Eurocentric ideological institutions.
When a MAN falls, don't celebrate.
Don't mock their struggles.
Sit. Pause. Learn.
Men learn through other men's experiences. Wins and losses are vital lessons.
Listen. Learn. Live.
In 2002, I bought my Safaricom line.
Ksh 2499.
I still use it.
It came in a metallic tin, with a booklet (a user manual), and a template for the SIM card.
It was preset on the Taifa Tariff.
Ksh 36 per minute billing during peak, and Ksh 27 per minute billing during off-peak.
Per-minute billing means that even if you talk for 32 seconds, you will be charged the per-minute rate.
At that time, KENCELL (later CELTEL, then ZAIN and now AIRTEL) was everyone's favourite carrier.
Safaricom was struggling to attract subscribers due to KENCELL's awkward commercials that portrayed Safaricom's network as sluggish and chaotic.
But, 2 months later, Safaricom reduced the price of its SIM cards to Ksh 99.
I almost went mad after spending KSH 2499 just two months earlier.
There were massive lines in Safaricom shops in Nairobi and Nakuru.
Nakuru, Kenyatta Avenue, next to Merica Hotel, was impassable for 1 week. There was a Safaricom shop there, and later a Samchi Telecom shop.
A lot of people had bought phones and kept them at home, especially Motorola T190 and Siemens C35, because they couldn't afford SIM cards or the cost of making calls.
A Motorola T190 was selling at KSH 17,999.
A Siemens C35 was selling at 11,499.
Safaricom immediately began selling locked mobile phones that could be used only with Safaricom SIM cards.
Later that year, Kibaki was overwhelmingly elected president, and his regime liberalised the telecommunications industry, and we began advancing in telecommunications technology.
We have come from far!
Men,
Birth certificates of children today lack Afrikan names.
"Liam James"
"Rooney Jayden."
This is wrong.
Children need an identity.
Mothers who erase FATHER'S name from a birth certificate are messing lives of these children.
Don't allow this.
#MasculinitySaturday
@jon_d_doe Old man Ramsey doesn't want to understand the caller even a bit. Imo, as soon as the caller tells his wife, she'll be angry and file for divorce since she now knows she'll get millions in alimony .