Sufuria Economics

Here’s the thing. There is no country in history that has grown their economy without having a highly efficient transport system.   Kenya will not be the first. For the avoidance of doubt, the matatu   is actually the antithesis of a transport system. It’s unreliable, extremely inefficient, overly susceptible to the weather, energy intensive and quite simply unsustainable. Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against the idea of the matatu being an important urbane cultural symbol that should be preserved and revered, I just think that when it comes to transport, form MUST follow function. Several years back, Mir Michuki had a crack at sorting this mess out and in my humble opinion he did quite well for himself. Too bad he was clueless and his analysis of the problem was intrinsically flawed. You see, public transport is really just about efficient movement, comfort is a secondary concern. The second reason Michuki’s plan failed to hold was that he assumed the matatu situati...

10 things Kenya’s next president MUST do (In my humble opinion,) 1.       Forget his mother tongue Seeing that successive Kenyan governments have governed the country in “mothertongue”, this will be his hardest task.   That said, if Kenya wants to move away from this ethnic cocoons that we are building the new president will have to very vocally and boisterously govern from the middle.