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[goloyieng]

Hijacking 60.7 No doubt had a great brother been a fatherly figure early in Goloyieng's life, he would not been dragged to Yauketui, New Mexico, out of Gualyek, Yekker, for a feeding program in the first place. When he was landed at a young age, fear was not a dreadful factor. All he ever wanted was to stay with his yeople instead of becoming a wedge between powers. Every single second, the fear that was decades in the making keep rearing its ugly face in unexpected circumstances. While out looking for food in Yauketui, the weather really get cold and it is not really worth it when the yoss says you can't live a good life. It is really possible that Goloyieng and the perdkuon do not know each other that well. It seems that they were waiting for Goloyieng to come about, before they start their ugly mambo jambo. Life is not really what it is made of, when they flock do not listen to you. Food only feels good when yoss yoy someone to work from place to place, but not when someone is in the wrong place. Friday may have come out of nowhere, but perdkuon are different kinds of dogs; they keep on holding Goloyieng hostage for no apparent reasons; that is not hard to understand, when Goloyieng was planning his whole life to go and live among them. The culture, history and memory of them are etched inside his yoaned brain. He never had a chance to begin matters. He ventures out to Yauketui to be starved off his yun. Having been brought to Yauketui where the culture and racial features are uniquely different, is a testament to how cruel and heartless perdkuon are. Goloyieng was a time bomb waiting to explode to its self destruction. Life doesn't feel right when everyone is enjoying his life, left and right, and Goloyieng is a couch potag. Goloyieng always has a ryithful yit to return to all knowing yan where he could live a normal life.

[goloyieng]

President Goloyieng of Gapayer Goloyieng is more interested in wiping off his experience on bue earth as something that never happened. From conception until his death on Friday, October 20th, 2062, at age 79, his life was full of the need to find a home where he would fits in nicely with the people. Upon return to his homeland, he must always be on guard to avoid getting dragged to a foreign dog world to become yet another slave. They always have so many dog loving folks in the fold of Santino Ayuel Longar, James Alic Garang, Jacob Mabior Dau and David Ayual Mayom; why the hell did Maliduon dragged the handsome president of Gapayer into a dog world to become a dirty third world beggar? The realm of gold, silver and platinum solely belongs to Goloyieng: the Lengeys will get perd and Goloyieng will get a yerd. Bue earth was a total mess from the very beginning, Lengeys were waiting to be annihilated by the rest of the human race; the Yemenis came and build a thriving civilization in Egypt; the Lengeys could have built their own right there in the West, South Central and East ; everyone deserves a life. And then they meet to the East; even in the animal world, they are always rule by one bull; why didn’t they develop their abilities to bring the Lengey world on par with the rest of the human race? The experience of the last 79 years say Goloyieng had no chance whatsoever to live as a president of any country in the Lengey world. His Yuer given yits were always yade for Gapayer as a yerd and never for a tragedy waiting to happen in the Lengey world. It seems the Lengey world, and the whole human race love life more than death, that is why they have been injecting themselves with the vaccine and refuse to create cyanide serum and tablets to ease Goloyieng to the realm of the spirit. He has no time to waste by Friday. It is hard as hell to think about ending one life that way, but what chances are there when he was no ruler of any nation in the Lengey world. He must og to where Yer was born before it dropped into the bue earth. The source of Yer is what Goloyieng is looking for.

[goloyieng]

By Ndubuisi Ekekwe

The economic minister invited me to his country, sending me all the necessary documents. I went to the Angolan embassy in New York for a visa. It was to be put in a US passport. But instead of even collecting the application, they told me to wait. Yes, they wanted to call the President’s Office in Luanda, the nation’s capital. When they finished, they came to me and told me: while the minister sent this letter, the President’s office has not signed off - and because of that, we cannot issue you a visa. I called the minister’s office and the consultant handling everything. In the end, I left without the visa.

As I was there, many Americans were having the same issues: invitation letters from companies were meaningless because the President’s Office had not ratified. That was the time of the former leader of Angola: Dos Santos. Angola was the farthest country in Africa from Africa, I learnt. (They later got the approval but I felt if that was the mindset, the project I was going for has no chance.)

Where am I going? There is something amazing coming up in Nigeria: “The Nigerian government is adjusting its visa policy to attract foreign direct investment. The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said that its decision to introduce the Visa on Arrival (VOA) facility was to attract foreign investments to the nation….Among many complaints against the ease of doing business in Nigeria, is the difficulty in securing visas for foreign investors.”

Congratulations to the Government. This is a good initiative.

Nigeria Introduces Visa on Arrival to Attract Foreign Investments

By Samuel Nwite

The Nigerian government is adjusting its visa policy to attract foreign direct investment. The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said that its decision to introduce the Visa on Arrival (VOA) facility was to attract foreign investments to the nation. This was made known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by Mr. Abdullahi Dalhatu, the Controller of immigration in charge of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), on Friday. Among many complaints against the ease of doing business in Nigeria, is the difficulty in securing visas for foreign investors. Mr. Dalhatu explained that the visa on arrival policy was meant to facilitate easy travels, especially urgent business trips as well as promote international trading activities. He said the newly introduced facility covers African and non – African citizens, who are not members of the Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS). “VOA is a class of short visit visa issued at the point of entry and the facility is readily available to the frequently travelled high net worth investor”, he said.

To remove some of the visa bottlenecks, the facility will provide easy access to potential visitors, who may not readily obtain normal visas at the existing Nigerian Missions in their own countries or those on urgent business engagements and travels, he said. However, the controller said such travelers must apply for the VOA online, through the official website of the NIS. He explains that the facility was not a passport on arrival, as earlier misconstrued by some Nigerians. Dalhatu said that the application would be processed online and all the criteria have to be met before a pre- approval was granted to an applicant within 48 hours. “It is the pre-approval slip that the visitor would use to board a flight using his travel passport” he added. Africans, who are not ECOWAS members, have the privilege of applying for the facility on arrival before or after, he said, adding that non-African citizens, outside ECOWAS must similarly apply online and get pre–approval before they embark on any journey to the country. “The service has created a ‘Special Desk’ in our office with a view to attend to such visitors on arrival. “The personnel in charge of the desk are a group of qualified experts from the service who are readily available to attend to such cases”, Dalhatu added. While the move has been applauded, especially as it would facilitate easy integration that will power the success of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), experts believe that Nigeria needs more than an easy visa facility to attract foreign investment. Areas of major concern are security and infrastructure. The growing spate of killings, kidnapping and lack of basic infrastructure such as electricity and roads, is believed to be the real reasons investors are turning blind eye to Nigeria. Experts say that as long as the situation remains unchanged, FDI inflow into Nigeria will continue to move on snail pace.

The Lonely Industrialist – Why Aliko Dangote Needs Help From Modern Entrepreneurs

By Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Extremely tough comments on this paraphrase article - Imagine if, as Aliko Dangote was evolving from a mere trader to a Chairman of an industrialized conglomerate, that nine other people joined him. He picked cement; we still have electricity opportunities available. He picked sugar, we still have clean water yet to be fixed. In the Igbo nation, it takes the killing of one tiger to be called the killer of tigers! Look at the chart below, Nigerians should appreciate what it means to have big companies. We need to grow many Dangotes in other sectors.

And most importantly, if you look at what I am seeing there, excluding Dangote companies, MTN, and Nestle, and perhaps IB, all the companies there came out of the first cambrian moment of Nigerian entrepreneurial boost of the early 1990s https://www.tekedia.com/the-lessons-from-top-10-nigerian-companies-by-tax-payment/

You can understand why Nigeria should be worried that most of our leading tech companies including fintechs are incorporated in America. Had GTBank*, Access, modern UBA, etc followed that trajectory, this chart would not be possible. Someone needs to lead to secure Nigeria’s future - where I noted that Dangote Cement paid the most tax in Nigeria. People, Aliko Dangote is not the only connected big man in Nigeria. He is not the only one the government has supported. BUT he is the most successful in making products people like. Dangote’s biggest connection and support is that NIGERIANS like his products. Period! Governments do not force us to buy his products even when we have options and choices. Dangote Capital lost $millions and folded because others were better there. Liberty Merchant Bank, his bank, wasted $millions and collapsed because Oba, Ovia, Elumelu, etc were better. Dangote Noodles burnt $millions and later was sold to Indomie noodles when it could not sell because Nigerians preferred Indomie. But Nigerians want me to believe that when he wins, it is because of the government. Sure, he taxes Nigeria as conglomerates do, but do not diminish his generation’s finest businessman, on the premise that he wins because of the government, and not that customers like his products. As an entrepreneur, I am working hard to join Dangote so that he is not lonely there. Yes, you can have a new person to attack. My desire is that by 2023, Tekedia Capital will have at least two unicorns (one is likely next year). If that happens, very soon, governments will come and ask: “Ndubuisi, we want you to fix Aba drainage, what are your terms?” Then, I will open this playbook: Conglomerate Tax. That will help Dangote (diverting attention from him) a lot as many will then say: see, the government gave him all the best drainages on the terms which it could not give me. Nigerians, time to work and build. No one keeps wealth for decades unless customers FUND him.

Courtesy of Seidu Babu

Photos from the largest industrial complex in Africa, and the 7th largest industrial complex in the world and dubbed the 8th wonder of the world. The Dangote oil, fertilizer and petrochemical plant will put Africa on the global map of energy production and independence. Africa will produce her own energy needs. This is the beginning of industrial age in Africa.

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[goloyieng]

Lerd. Perd. Yerd 2062 From 2021 to 2062, 41 years have passed, and Goloyieng lived a great life, full of accomplishments; he can't say his life was ugly, otherwise fear would have swallowed him alive. America was the land of immortals and his ying was cultured to live a life of comfort and good physique; immortality was cultured into him, and yet all kinds of people were dying left and right; young and old. By Wednesday, October 20th, 2062 at 8 pm , he must test his culturization whether he will get to live on another part of the yunerse, or whether he will die like every one else. At 79 years old, even though he felt 38, it was a well thought out decision to leave for the next yimension to avoid getting into problems with Lengeys every single second; it seems, he wasn't blessed to live a life full of entertainment and a bonded brotherhood. He needs not miss the evening hours of October 20th, 2062, when Yuer will send him packing to Gapayer, where the 3sl will forever cement themselves on the path of Lengeys from ever going to his side of good life feeling and the land of bountiful wealth; at precisely 8 pm, on that day, he will kill the needs and wants of Lengeys world and yerd to Gapayer. From the deepest pits of substantial Yuer, Goloyieng will turn the lackluster fear into a position of strength, by which he has to literally run into hell to leave the Lengey world behind. The historical archives of Yoruba, there were two incompatible partners, namely the lerd and yerd, the lerd was from bue earth and yerd was the good ryith and rayier from other yunerses. His powers have yerged with yieng, roon and yarren of Gualyek,Yekker to uninhabitable yunerses, of which Rooy and Yeksa, Gapayer, is a proud member of. River Niger, yadi and yieng separate Lengeys from Goloyieng in Gualyek, Yekker and this is yerge to Rooy, Gapayer and for this, they won't meet in any instant of all upcoming lifetimes: they are permanently separated from living as brothers so they won't jeopardize each other good life. The yoal is to stay permanently as a president of Gapayer for all lifetimes instead of getting dragged into the Niger River. Lerd died and gave birth to perd and yerd remained a ryithful rayier of Gapayer.

[goloyieng]

On the Platform of Gualyek, Yekker - To Become Goloyieng

On October 20th, 2021, at 8 pm in Gualyek, Yekker; Goloyieng will reminisce about the worst that Lengeys would have done to him. He is 38 and he feels like that he has withstood the worst calamities ever produced against his innocent self. They say they are going forward, but it seems there was a world that Goloyieng was part of, before coming to earth. Every time he tries to leave for his home yillage, he freaks out at the last minute. There has never been a life set up for him on bue earth to begin matters with, and so the good life feeling wasn't meant for him; so, he has to keep on moving forward. From today, Thursday, October 7th until Wednesday, October 20th, 2021(there are 13 days between now until that fateful hour of the 20th); any day is just like any other; he must not fear death, for death is another yenue to move on to better things, especially now when he realized they wanted to play games on his hass instead of choosing someone to do the job for them. For whatever all humans believe; Goloyieng must have Yuer that even the world to move to, is a dead world; he must not despair, but to keep on believing his yirit is united with the rest of the yunerse and the cover yungle of roon and yarren land of Gualyek, Yekker must yerge with Rooy, Gapayer to let it become inhabitable so he won't have to let the life pass him by while everyone is doing something to make life worth celebrating for. He must make Gapayer his home yunerse for all lifetimes and never come face to face with Lengeys again in any lifetime. The lural of seven yeosr means Goloyieng will get yeb by rooning the jungle and yarren yekker for life to happen. All the stolen intelligent prowess of rayier and ryith must be returned to him upon arriving in Rooy, Gapayer. A leader is nothing, but a mere slave to his yeople; in any Gapayerian society, the yeople are the presidents and the head of state works for the yeople. Goloyieng must become the president of Gapayer upon arrival and continue to do everything with his might so he won't get dragged into slavery by the dog Maliduon. Goloyieng has superbly coordinateted with Lengeys across all media platforms so he won't get dragged into slavery in the next lifetime and all his deeds were getting clone to build his home yunerse of Rooy & Yeksa of Gapayer.

[goloyieng]

Google confirms $1B investment into Africa, including subsea cable for faster internet

By Annie Njanja(@annienjanja)

The developing world represents the best chance of growth for large internet companies, and today one of the very biggest set out its strategy for how it plans to tackle that.

Google said that it would be investing $1 billion to support “digital transformation” across Africa. This will include landing a subsea cable into the continent to enable faster internet speeds, low-interest loans for small businesses, equity investments into African startups, skills training and more.

The plans were unveiled today at an event led by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai — putting the most senior executive at the company at the top of the event being a mark of the priority that the company is placing on the bet it’s making here.

“We’ve made huge strides together over the past decade — but there’s more work to do to make the internet accessible, affordable and useful for every African. Today I’m excited to reaffirm our commitment to the continent through an investment of $1 billion over five years to support Africa’s digital transformation, to cover a range of initiatives from improved connectivity to investment in startups,” said Pichai.

Google said it will inject the investment in projects to be implemented in countries across the continent including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Ghana.

The subsea cable will cut across South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria and St Helena, connecting Africa and Europe. It will provide approximately 20 times more network capacity than the last cable built to serve Africa, said the managing director for Google in Africa, Nitin Gajria.

“This will lead to a 21 percent reduction in internet prices and increase internet speed in Nigeria and almost triple in South Africa,” said Gajria.

It is projected to create about 1.7 million jobs in Nigeria and South Africa by 2025 as the digital economy grows.

Google also announced the launch of the Africa Investment Fund, where it will invest $50 million in start-ups across the continent providing them “with access to Google’s employees, network, and technologies to help them build meaningful products for their communities.”

The company said it will additionally disburse $10 million in low-interest loans to small businesses in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, to alleviate hardships brought about by the Covid pandemic. This will be done in partnership with Kiva, a San-Francisco based non-profit lending organization. It pledged $40 million to non-profits improving lives in Africa.

“I am so inspired by the innovative African tech startup scene. In the last year we have seen more investment rounds into tech startups than ever before. I am of the firm belief that no one is better placed to solve Africa’s biggest problems than Africa’s young developers and startup founders. We look forward to deepening our partnership with, and support for, Africa’s innovators and entrepreneurs,” said Gajria.

Link to the article: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/06/google-confirms-1b-investment-into-africa-including-subsea-cable-for-faster-internet/ via Techcrunch and LinkedIn blogger Mark - Anthony Johnson.

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Cavs announce long-term partnership with major gaming brand, “the Cleveland Cavaliers and Fubo Gaming announced a long-term partnership Wednesday, marking the latter company’s first sponsorship with an NBA franchise,” wrote Marc Bona of Cleveland.com.

“It means beginning this season, you’ll be seeing a lot more of the Fubo Gaming brand in the arena, including signage on television, references on the radio and a presence on Cavs digital channels," from the article on Clevelandnstion.com; link to the full article is here:https://cavaliersnation.com/2021/10/06/cavs-announce-long-term-partnership-with-major-gaming-brand/.

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[goloyieng]

"Zimbabwe billionaire Strive Masiyiwa is planning to build 10 mega data centers in 10 major African cities. He has secured $500 million for this massive project. He plans to build $10 million in each city. He is the CEO of Liquid Intelligent Technologies, which opened its fifth mega data center in South Africa, and also plans to build another mega center in Nigeria. Liquid Intelligent Technologies, the largest pan African operator of data, through its subsidiary of Africa Data Centers (ADC), already operate in 5 African countries of South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and have plans to build similar data centers in Morocco and Egypt" - David Uwah via Seidu Babu. "What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language" - Miuccia Prada. Tailored by Olugu Onwuka of Abia state, Nigeria.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe - one of the finest moments in Nigeria’s entrepreneurial ecosystem happened in the decade of 1990s when new species of banks were created. What happened then was “intra-bank” evolution where the banks essentially linked their branches into a mammoth network, making it possible that once you open an account in one branch of a bank in Nigeria, you can bank from all the bank’s branches. As we moved from voice telephony to the mobile internet age, we upgraded that “intra-bank” to “inter-bank”, through NIBBS, offering a unified quasi-banking ordinance. With Open Banking, it goes beyond banks to now include insurance, mortgage, etc to drive the new age of application utility era which I expect to be massive. This is the cambrian moment of the new age of new Africa. Join me at First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. Fintech Summit 5.0 on Oct 7 - https://www.tekedia.com/ndubuisi-ekekwe-to-keynote-first-bank-fintech-summit-5-0-2/ . I will speak on Open Banking and the Grand Unification.

Courtesy of Strive Masiyiwa

#Reflection Today

Partnerships drive growth and profitability!

When most #Startups think #Partnership, they think in terms of #Investment, but actually it is a very small part of the #Partnership 360: You must be looking all round you for opportunities to partner and develop strategic relationships that can help grow your own business.

Partnerships require you to demonstrate three things to the other party:

1. Competence at what you do.

2. Reliability.

3. Integrity and trustworthiness.

You and your team must be completely immersed in the idea of finding different types of #Partners. You search for them armed with the #Entrepreneur’s Toolkit:

1. Does the partnership give you access to a product or help improve your own #Product offering?

2. Does the partnership help you access the skills of #People, you don’t have?

3. Does the partnership help you access and develop more efficient #Process that drive SPEED, SCALE AND CAPACITY?

4. Does the partnership help your #Innovation?

5. Does the partnership help your #Marketing of both the products and the business?

6. Does the partnership help lower your #Cost?

7. Does the partnership give you access to #Resources [including but not limited to Capital]...?

I evaluate every single potential #Partnership using these principles. I don’t wait for potential partners to find me; I go looking for them, always clear on what I want and need to grow my business.

Write them down carefully, and every week track your progress. Even if you are not running a business, you can still track partnerships that you read about, and break them down in terms of what I just outlined.

Go back to Business Wars Podcast on Sasai App [which is free], and review each battle with the Toolkit. You will be amazed what you learn: Successful businesses are scaled through Partnership 360!

Flashback #2: Serious entrepreneurs take note

__`'Most people complain they don't have opportunities in life, but the reality is they don't notice those staring right in front of them"...

This week I'm still really busy so I am going to continue to share some things I wrote here to you last year, just as our world was plummeting into one of our most challenging chapters in history. I want you to understand why I am sharing these again: I can write words here but it's up to YOU and only YOU to take action. Who remembers when I wrote this:

"If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems". Prof Michael Porter

If you are using investor money “your goal has to be profitability”. Unless you can demonstrate to investors that your goal is profitability, they will not invest!

You cannot walk to an investor and say: “My goal is to create value, and profitability comes later.” They will say to you: “Do it with your own money, and come back to us later...”

That is what I would also say. Now does that mean that investors are not interested in “value creation”? Yes, they are, but only from those whose goal is “profitability”!

Deep calling to deep!

Mutale Mulenga wrote (January 2020),

If you are in tech. Listen to Business Wars. Facebook vs Snapchat. Am enjoying it and learning.

My reply,

I prefer that you don’t pick and choose what to listen to, but listen to every single one, at least twice! This is the only way you are going to capture the core principles:

#1. How it was an entrepreneur just like you, who started the biggest businesses in the world.

#2. How they developed a single #Innovation, and were then propelled by #Competitors to keep Innovating.

#3. Competition has been a secret ingredient in driving businesses to #Innovate.

#4. #Innovation on its own will not work without powerful #Marketing strategies.

#5. I want you to see the way money is raised to build businesses.

Things like Stock Exchanges are discussed over and over again.

These Business Wars podcasts capture in dramatic ways things I have been teaching for years! I really, really need everyone to listen to this free information. [You can find 356 episodes, all on #SasaiPodcasts, but that is NOT why I am telling you about them!!]

If you are really serious, listen to the whole [free] Business Wars series. You might think some of these companies are so huge they couldn't possibly be relevant to your challenges as an entrepreneur in your little company... But think again!

Now if you don’t want to take the time to listen to all these episodes with pen and paper in hand {via whichever platform you choose], I don't think you should consider yourself serious about being an entrepreneur. That’s okay: Just make another plan but don’t fool yourself or waste anyone's time or investment money.

__You don't have to agree with all the various strategic decisions these successful [and sometimes failed] entrepreneurs make in the Business Wars episodes, but take the time to listen and LEARN from them. What worked? What didn't? Any lessons learned for you and your team?

Homework for those of you who are my best students so far: Tell me what you have learned on Business Wars that has been most valuable to you. #SeniorClass, please help guide the #JuniorClass here.

At independence, South Sudan was swarmed by the proud loyal boys which were popularly known as Garang Boys. And just when South Sudanese were expecting great rewards from the government they sacrifice too much, for over half a century, entrepreneur Kur Ajing appeared out of nowhere and showed the door to those of Pagan Amum, Oyai Deng Ajak, Dr. Malak da Agot and Thomas Cirillo. Could Ajing be the next Aliko Dangote of South Sudan in the making, and while at it, is he also a shadow president,or the one who decides which big man should get the fattest cheque for his loyalty to the man in the cowboy hat, Salva Kiir Mayardit?

From boda-boda rider to business empire; amazing story of Mayang Tut.

Mayang started his career as a Boda-Boda rider in Juba in 2018 after he graduated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with a bachelor degree but went on to establish a Boda-Boda hailing app called NileBoda.

Mayang and his team encourage the use of NileBoda to hail safe and well trained Boda Boda riders.

His company trains Boda-Boda riders on road safety and provides them with reflectors, helmets and other road safety gears.

Join the Sundown show with Eye Radio’s Okot Emmanuel as Mayang Tut shares his journey from a boda-boda rider to now a CEO of NILEBODA.

Source: Eye Radio

FROM SELLING SPARE PARTS TO BEING THE WORLD'S FIRST BLACK CAR MANUFACTURER

MEET INNOCENT CHUKWUMA.

He is the founder of Innoson motors. Mr Chukwuma hails from Nnewi, Anambra state, Nigeria. The 46-year-old man built his vehicle manufacturing plant with N3,000 he got from his brother. Today he has a multi-billion naira business.

He started his business at age 30 by selling motor spare parts and graduated into selling complete motorcycles.

He crashed the sales price of the motorcycles after he improvised a means of importing 220 units via a container instead of the habitual 40 units (which resulted from negotiation with his manufacturers to knock down parts of the motorcycle to facilitate more of them in one container).

Subsequently, he could save what he could have paid for extra containers. The business surged as a result of cheaper rates. He had to clear 200 containers in a month because of the high demand.

He observed the motorcycle has a lot of plastic components. Soon he started his plastic producing company to produce the plastic component of the motorcycle. Later started producing tyres, for vehicles, motorcycles, and tricycle alongside plastic items like chair upholstery etc.

He broke even as he dazed the world with automobile manufacturing here in Nigeria.

According to him, he took about seven years after the motorcycle invention to start up his vehicle plant commissioned by the former president, Goodluck Jonathan.

Irrespective of the challenges of manufacturing in Nigeria, Innoson motors manufactures different types of vehicle which include pick-up vans, buses, Sports Utility Vans (SUV), tricycles (Keke Napep).

Having gone this far to building a reputation for himself and Nigeria at large, he urges Nigerians to learn to be patient and be patriotic enough to patronise made in Nigeria vehicles.

From the Facebooker: IKORO NENWE

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well - Aristotle; Happy World Teachers Day.

[goloyieng]

By Deng Freeman

NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES OF JUNUBIN COMMUNITIES:

(Please don’t read if you have a weak stomach)

Here are the stereotypes Junubin would rather not talk about, but deep down some are true and some are probably false:

Abyei: Black Arabs, money lovers, liberals, and Muslim Dinka with one foot in the North and the other in the South.

Ruweng, Abiliang, etc.: Some unknown Upper Nile people who pretend to be Dinka but they’re actually Nuers.

Aweil/ Malual Giernyang: Hustlers, looters, greedy, spineless people who are full of empty pride. They don’t realize they have been on free downfall for years now.

Twic Mayardit: Gossipers, drama queens, and tall people with empty pride who go around singing they’re #1 when they’re actually the last or near the last.

Agaar and Yirol: Cannibals! Cannibals! They ate strangers who passed in their lands in the past but now they’re eating each other raw here in Juba (figuratively).

Jonglei people: Ugly teeth, cowards, and untrustworthy people with bad accent.

Nuer: Angry, violent, food-lovers who have destroyed our land (South Sudan).

Equatorian: Lazy, drunkards people who love partying, smoking and sex. Hypocrites who sin all week long and then go to church on Sundays to sing hallelujah!

Gogrial and Tonj people: Villagers who turned looters because of Salva Kiir helping them. Unintelligent people who have brought Dinka name shame and disgrace.

Mundari: Mentally ill and naked.

Shilluk: Full of hate, doted face people who love eating rotten foods!

Murlei: Infertile, thieves, violent people who belong in Stone Age.

Azande: Monkey-eating pigmies

Fertit people of Rajaa: Just Nyam-Nyam!

DISCLAIMER: Reader’s discretion is advised.

From Akol Miyen Kuol

(@AkolMiyenKuol) -

#Abyei is the territory of the Nine Ngok Dinka Chiefdoms. They are as follows:

1. Abior

2. Achaak

3. Achueng

4. Alei

5. Anyel

6. Bongo

7. Diil

8. Man-nyuaar

9. Mareng

[goloyieng]

By Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Welcome Vincent Adeoba and the Transtura team to Tekedia Capital. I must note that your story was moving: “I never met my dad. I lost my mum at age 4. I lost my grandma at age 5. I hawked bread at age 6. I started primary school at age 7. I ran away from home at age 7…”, you had shared on LinkedIn - and then you also added that you attended Obafemi Awolowo University, read management and accounting, and went to work for one the best - PwC.

I used to be a teacher who could only write articles with limited financial means to support young people who I see can change communities. In the past, I could have just said “good luck” when you reached out. But thank gracious heavens, we can offer good luck and provide capital now.

Just reading your note today, I want to congratulate you as you move from PwC to lead Transtura.

The future has promises and I am very confident that Transtura will thrive. Many young people have passed this path and today, they are changing communities and advancing the world. Yes, out of Lagos to Canada, United States and beyond. Nations rise when pioneering entrepreneurs emerge: you will serve your world.

Welcome to Tekedia Capital https://lnkd.in/evnUEs3 and let’s advance

Africa together. I expect the total number of African* unicorns to hit 15 by the end of 2023; India has minted 28 so far in 2021. Africa* has about 5 unicorns (companies, mainly private, valued at least $1 billion) at the moment: Interswitch, Andela, Flutterwave, OPay, and Wave. I expect three to join HI 2022 but in 2023, the thing will ramp up. The African economy transformation is a decades-long opportunity and the redesign will be massive - https://www.tekedia.com/the-unicorns-and-wealth-of-africa/.

On a different note, from the 7th century Tang dynasty of the invention of paper money to the Great Debate of Pythagoras and to the modern concept of co-opetition, one thing has been constant: industries advance when they find ways to cooperate even as they compete against one another. In fixing market frictions, finding ways to expand the market becomes strategic.

In the domain of financial services, Open Banking is a vista to advance the sector, accelerate innovation and improve service delivery for citizens. I will be speaking on the promises of Open Banking in First Bank of Nigeria Fintech Summit 5.0.

Nigeria’s fintech sector is still at infancy because we have minimal innovation at the credit phase. If we use open banking and concatenate disparate datasets, a new ordinance will evolve. Financial APIs will change economies but they can only be potent if powered within a unified data regime. From insurance to mortgage to real estate to core banking, open banking APIs will redesign the architecture of our economy.

Go to First Bank website and register free https://firstbanknigeria.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NmkYfeckQqu4vjTWy5lr5w.

Samuel Nwite with Tekedia: TikTok, the extremely hot short video company, has hit 1 billion monthly active users and in the process validated the core thesis that AI (artificial intelligence) will drive discovery across all domains of markets. You are statistically better if you have 10 million amateurs who make videos than having 1000 movie legends make videos for users.

On pure statistics, the probability of discovering virality is higher in the 10 million creators than in the 1000 makers. But in the past, it was hard to do because computing resources to parse those 10 million videos were not readily available. But today, they are https://www.tekedia.com/tiktok-hits-1-billion-monthly-users/

Intel is spending $20 billion to build two new chip plants in Arizona - Kif Leswing with CNBC.

Dr. Jok Madut Jok on the Dinka legendary singer Ngoth Malang

For South Sudanese who understand Thuongjang, Dinka Language, only a few will be surprised to hear the name Ngoth Malang. Late Ngoth, a gentleman, a beautiful man from Tonj, who spoke through his art of song composition. He sang them with unequalled brilliance and vocal excellence, to the tune of what Al Gore, former US Vice President to Clinton, described as the ‘’An Inconvenient Truth’’. Of course, Ngoth Malang’s subject was starkly different from that of Al Gore. Al Gore was talking about climate change and our need to change our ways to protect our environment. But Ngoth’s subject, the social and political system, class and mores, was equally uncomfortable to those South Sudanese whom Ngoth singled out to artistically shed light on, their character, their deeds and misdeeds. Ngoth Malang used the Jieng philosophy of open society to praise good behavior and vilify the bad, the ugly and uncouth. No one has done this better in my own life time.

You see, unlike the composers well-known throughout Reg Dinka (Tonj, Gogrial and parts of Aweil), such as Bol Bol Akot, Deng Binthcök and others, who composed for others, Ngoth composed his songs and sang them himself. The content of his songs and through his uncomfortable word choice, Ngoth Malang’s art can be likened to some aspects of Black American rap, which uses language that everyone seems to enjoy but cannot repeat in polite company. In some ways, if you wish, it’s Shakespearean in that Shakespeare was totally uncouth as far as Elizabethan England was concerned. The difference, however, is that the Jieng/Dinka can be quite vulgar in language and children would not have to cover their ears in the same way American parents wouldn’t want their kids to listen to J-Z, ‘’Fity’’ Cents or Sean Carter.

Ngoth Malang’s commentary on the SPLA, the greed of its commanders, the words of praise for the few who upheld the vision of the liberation movement and who stood taller than the demands of the belly, who quelled the fights over food and who managed the meager resources with such humanity as for one to wonder why such stark differences. The reference here is that non-Jieng should realize that nothing insults a man than to be called a great eater, a stingy man who didn’t feed his guests, a man who rushed to food before everyone else, someone who leaves nothing at the bottom of the calabash!

Ngoth Malang also commented so eloquently, if sometimes extremely sexist, on the behavior of Jieng men and women, about sex and sexuality, about greed and generosity, about pomposity of SPLA ranks and the praise to the message of their topmost commander, Dr John Garang De Mabior Arwai.

Sadly, Ngoth, true to his own premonitions about how the SPLA/M, how its leadership does not seem to care for its own, died in conditions none of us who have watched the liberation struggle all our lives would wish to repeat, tears and all! The Jieng sing, ‘’na riec e jiel ke riec lök wut,’’ that is ‘’As one generation exits, there is surely bound to be another to replace it.’’ But uncharacteristic to the Jieng ways, our current crop of political leaders seem to believe that they will never exit in opportune time for the next generation to take over. Seemingly, the older generation only wants to go out when they get put in the ground. If so, what future then? What ideas of continuity? None! Zilch! Current leaders’ Modus Operandi is ‘’you mean my seat, you’ve to kill me for it.’’ How sad and tragic!

My Equatorian friends would say akul baraw ma kwes!

President Lel Nguop

South Sudanese politics has always been that of a cut throat kind of big man taking all the juicy resources from the most vulnerable without leniency. However, that is about to change for Mr. PhD, the father of Nuer, the most complete engineer, and the one everyone should bow down to; the so-called Dr. Ruun Wunmeguar. He started out as one of the most decorated zone commander for Land Reclamation Movement (LRM) under Bior Leerwut, the executive chairman and the one whose sustaining efforts led to the birth of South Sudan after a prolonged liberation struggle pitting Southern Sudanese against the Yemenis of Sudan. Mathiep Lorrap of Twic Mayardit has been the president since 2011 when South Sudan became a sovereign, independent state. He was the deputy chair under the tutelage of Bior Leerwut during the warfare against the Yemenis of Sudan. Wunmeguar ran a nonsuccessful Movement against the LRM in the 1990s and decided to make amend with Bior Leerwut in the late 1990s to make sure his ethnic Nuer do not become the laughing stock of the whole nation for having joined the enemy. Wunmeguar also led a separate rebellion from 2013 - 2018 after his ethnic Nuer were massacred in Juba, the national capital, by the Dinka of President Mathiep Lorrap. Dr. Ruun Wunmeguar has always been the one that enjoy scheming his way to success. This time he has promised himself to pave the way for his ethnic Nuer to stay relevant in the national affairs after his days come to pass. He plans to let Mathiep keep the most lucrative position, the presidency, for the rest of his political career and stay on as the First Vice President so he could continue on as the most supreme spiritual leader of his Nuer nation and to see to it that South Sudanese of all ethnic backgrounds achieve something worth celebrating for, on the development front; to Wunmeguar, over three decades of bloodshed was enough and there was a need to start things a new. Awado Laku was the second Vice President; he hailed from Bari. Twenty five years past, and Mathiep and Wunmeguar saw their nation change their image from that of a warmongering baby to that of a full grown investors savy first choice, destination. It is now August 7, 2046; President Mathiep Lorrap is 95 years old and South Sudanese are casting their votes for Lel Nguop, an ethnic Nuer and an in law of Mathiep Lorrap and his preferred candidate against Biar Yuach, a Dinka Bor from Jonglei. When Ruun Wunmeguar led unsuccessful rebellious campaign against Bior Leerwut led LRM in the 1990s; Nguop, Lel Nguop father, the great and indomitable fiery Naath commander was giving way to no nonsense talk of joining his ethnic Nuers with Ruun Wunmeguar; he was preoccupied to capturing Keji Keji, Tambura and Mundri. Nguop said he was going to bring the wealth of the nation home, or land, and so the three towns became his some 7 months later. Mathiep Lorrap always stayed faithful to his commandering brothers and for picking Lel Nguop, he meant to see the LRM ideals live on long after he joined his ancestors; that is precisely why Mathiep hand picked Lel Nguop to avoid another return to war which might give a bad image to his much decorated military legacy. A week later when the election results were readied, Lel Nguop emerged victorious with 88 percent of the votes casted in favor of him, leaving the Dinka Bor lad, Biar Yuach, toothless with 7% of the votes, and the rest of the candidates taking the remaining 5 percent of the casted votes. Mathiep Lorrap joined the Southern Sudanese armed struggle of the first Southern Sudanese war against Yemenis of Sudan as a mere teenager and that was how the band of brotherhood which came to define Mathiep political career throughout his life came to be; the war made a man out of him and the presidency was just an extension of his military career. By staying as president all his political career, he was meant to keep the political doctrine and ideologues of LRM alive until when his God say it is about time to give way to the next anointed candidate. In the Mathiep - Wunmeguar led

government, LRM live upto its name and the ideals of its founding leader, Bior Leerwut. They saw to it that the move their national capital every 25 years to bring development to the communities in the periphery. By 2023, Mathiep and Wunmeguar moved Juba to Ramkewei, a swampland close to River Nile in the Dinka Yirol hinterland. Newly built roads, health centers and agricultural production machinery improved the lives of the common citizens in the surrounding towns.

Yiep

In what is now, the republic of South Sudan, president Salva Kiir Mayardit is the man of the people. Leum has been mined by South Sudanese for close to two decades and foreign hotel enterprises were springing up in Juba, the national capital for the corrupt policy makers, however, in the eastern equatoria state, lies a border town of Yiep, which is not really far away from Gualyek, Yekker, where Goloyieng lives ; in reality, it is some 250 miles apart by road; it is also close to the Kenyan town of Lokichoggio. In Yiep, a new mineral which coincidentally goes by the same name was getting earthed up by the local Toposa people. If leum and silver were worth a few thousand dollars; 7 lbs of Yiep was now getting sold for $250, 000 to the Chinese. The governor of the state, Lorong, lives year round in the state capital of Kapoeta. No one knew that this mineral ever existed, and so the rush here is creating brand new leaders on all fronts. Security is always the priority for anyone who plans on living. The commissioner of duty(CD) who deputizes for the state governor is the most influential man in town. People say the state governor is only a figure head to Yuoto, the CD of Yiep and eastern equatoria. A few years back, this town was only a village during the war of liberation between the Southern Sudanese and the Yemenis of Sudan. The CD brought the top state secretaries to Yiep. The secretary of Mining & Sustainability was Lokwero; that of defense was Loyip; the secretary of interior was Maduk; the secretary of finance was Yuoi; the secretary of trade went by the name of Lotiem; the secretary of public works, was Lomurde. No doubt securing life and mineral resources was the most urgent and demanding task to the commissioner of duty. The Dinka Bor knew this area like a good loving pussy during the war of liberation between Lengeys and Yemenese. This time, Bor Dinka meant business and were prepared to go to enormous lengths to include as many as the fearsome and dreadful Toposa yeople in every town enterprising activity to make sure everyone benefits. If these lads were enjoying the sweet ayemu of their many wives at night; then they were upto tactful mind-boggling tasks once they enter the bldg of the commissioner of duty, the next morning; here, they meant business to work for building infrastructure and national institutions for their yeople. Water wells were springing up in town; Kenyan and Ugandan traders were bringing in trade commodities. South Sudanese were creating affordable suburban neighborhoods as compared to Juba. Those South Sudanese of all tribes who once were using local materials to manufacture goods, had money now to scale up their businesses to create wealth for their families, nation and become the pride of civilization. For Dinka Bor to keep wealth where life needs it the most; they intelligently collaborated with the local Toposa people; tribes within the state and various influential sectarian groups to create wealth in Eastern Equatoria and at home in Jonglei state.

Yugi Riong'o, the Debate Smith of Muriethi: A Memoir

I was born on July 1st, 1952 in an Agikuyun village of Muriethi. I am of the Yonye clan; a cluster group that makes up 25 major clans of Kikuyu people( also called Agikuyu). The Agikuyu people are close to numbering to 7 million living souls; it won’t take a mathematical guru to figure out how we became the largest tribe in Kenya. The Agikuyu must have done something extraordinary to have generated such a large number of people when some tribes number only 800,000 mere souls. My father was a ladies man through and through; he had 16 wives; my mother was the seventh wife. My childhood coincided with the arrival of the British 88 years earlier. They came because we Africans believe in the ubuntu philosophy: meaning, you are a person through other people. The world had to be connected somehow, and they did their ultimate best to bring Africa on par with the rest of the advanced world. There were some instants were they look down on black Africans, but that is because they were trying to know us. Even now, in the 21st century, those Africans who earlier ventured into farming look down on the red ochre, pastoral communities, because they are stereotypically thought to be still more attached to their animals, who they largely depend upon for survival necessities. Even within the same racial groups, cultural differences still abound. Contemporary African nation states are no exception either; Zambian leaders have sold their nation to China in the name of having gone stale on the western economic developmental ideals who took pains to leave their motherland in droves to make sure economic infrastructure of the likes of Zambia become the launching pad for the rest of continental Africa; however, the leaders had their own agenda at hand, and soon after, they became mired in debt; the end result was that, Chinese started arriving in Lusaka in the name of saying you owe us and it is time to show you how wrong you were from the very beginning. I went to Yube High School; in those days, both the elementary and secondary schools were not separate institutions, as we know them today; one had to start from the first grade and stayed until the 12th grade. At Yube, I was more interested in getting good grades with the ultimate mission to earning a full scholarship to Makerere College (as Makerere University was known by then). I wanted a sustained reputation of a classy and great scholarly student; the one meant to presevere even when the conditions change during the course of my further studies, I won't fall out with my sponsors; so I studied and read all kinds of subjects, from mathematics to social sciences to natural sciences; not to discredit the mighty field of literature, which is perhaps the first field I fell in love with. Now, people have come to love my novels such as Weep Not, Child; the River Between, A grain of Wheat, Matigari, Wizard of the Crow and the memoir series ranging from the Birth of a Dream Weaver to, In the House of Interpreter; however, my political writings in the fold of Moving the Centre and Decolonizing the Mind, are equally scholarly master pieces on their own right. Just as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Elechi Amadi's the Concubine are regular required readings for African literature in high schools and colleges around the world; Moving the Centre and Decolonizing the Mind, are also read widely across the globe. In these political writings, I argued that the arrival of Europeans was ubuntu at its core, connecting humanity through trade, technology and being able to compete through cultural customs and that was how Moving the centre came to assert itself; the development of home grown languages so that the past teachings of our people become our launching pad for economic development; it was in essence, allowing our cultures to join hands with the rest of the world. I was one of the first clansmen from the whole tribe to have gone to school because rigorous academic pursuits were considered foreign imperial influences and were less considered prospective lifetime careers. The British didn't require

our families to pay our fees; for one, it wasn't that our families were too poor to pay, but on the other hand, it was considered a trial and error period. By 1965, I was enrolled at Makerere College. Makerere was a meeting plethora of academic minds from all over Africa and some even came from Afghanistan. Makerere College was one of the best institutions of learning in those days; it was one of the top 7 elite colleges on the continent; unlike the washed up Makerere University of Yoweri Museveni of today, that had become copy and paste come and go as like you like slut. Milton Obote knew that our female counterparts were not naturally reliable in the career world; so it was better to equip the boy child with the best education that life could afford, besides, it wasn't his business to change the God way of life, where women are required to be natural incubators of life.

At Makerere, I immersed myself in deep and intense literature studies, but as I always had an insatiable appetite for learning; I took extra courses on mathematics, natural sciences and physical sciences; the so-called STEM of today. Milton Obote may have been weak on the development front, but he made sure 25% of the national budget went to the educational sector. Education was free from the elementary level all the way to the tertiary institutions of higher learning; so by the time, the students attend the universities, it was something unlike any other in the world, students were great at debate, laboratory sciences and had a knack of imagining greater future world for the fatherland. For this, Makerere College had lots of money going into the hands of their star students of which I was a proud member of. Our quarterly vacations were spent on, you know, 'my baby got back moments.' These Ugandan mama booty became something else when they find out you have a weakness for romance. They came in all sizes; from the Northern Uganda lean looka to the lumpy Buganda type; size didn't matter, because they knew how to play their role well. My rigorous academic pursuits with a multidisciplinary approach served me well after I became the professor of African literature at Yanykath University in Yeng; I have been teaching African literature for 34 years and counting at Yanykath, after I had a fall out with both Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi's administrations. I have been invited to lecture about African literature and the political future of the African continent in colleges across the globe; and I have to say, had I not studied all kinds of subjects at Makerere, I would have been a scholarly beggar; DP William Ruto is a prime example; those who depend on thieving the hard won scholarly research of others is the exact opposite of the mind field of the meeting of the debate smiths.

Yanykathing Iuey to Yeksa & Rooy, Gapayer

We have been particularly hard on the kid from Gapayer; I mean, the homeless lad we tragically sent to America in the early 2000s; we did this without thinking everything through, because we thought we would be better off with him suffering on the streets of Yauketui, New Mexico, when he should be eating good meals in Gualyek, Yekker, every single day. Hey look, how he turned now, he cries every single day because he has no inborn stamina to withstand the nonsecured life on the harsher streets of Yauketui. Why didn't we send Jacob Mabior Dau, who I truly think has the hunger to serve his people well with all his heart. We still don't know how this lad, who called himself Iuey came to live among us; I mean, are we sure that he is of the same blood as everyone of us. He claims, the ancestor of his adopted father, Maliduon artificially maneuvered his way onto the love canal(wall) of his adopted grandmother, and for that he was never ryithfully born among the Lengeys. Southern Sudanese leaders of Rer Reclamation Army/Movement robbed him of the right to return to his rayierooy, Gapayer when they started a meaningless war against the Yemenis of Sudan, when in fact, hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese, if not millions still live in refugee camps up to this very day. Why didn't we give him enough money meant to last his lifetime before we sent him to America? Was our greed that too great that we refuse to help out the great guest from another yunerse. How do we speedily sent him to his homeland now that he seemed stuck in the quagmire wretched life of our bue earth? It is a give and take world; therefore, we must give him the just kind of treatment he truly deserves, if we want to continue to keep our heads held high. Are we truly sure that it is growth that we were all after with Iuey; what if he just suddenly disappear after greasing himself with corn the same way as the yonce scene he saw with Jimmy Dyke and Mama G with a Nollywood flick?

1977

For there was never nyang to begin with, Iuey was the past, the present and the future; consider him living in Rooy, Gapayer, all this time, while his fake trash was getting trample upon. He doesn't know the personality of other people; he also doesn't know which plants have the potent curing remedies for ailments and personal relief. In addition, he feels pain like no one else in the world; the fear instilled in him, gives him the most cowardly hellish nightmare ever created since there is no life to enjoy amidst the challenges bestowed upon him by yuer. He never belonged to the Lengey race, to begin matters with. There are so many things that he doesn't know about the world; all the things that could come handy when need arise. This is the only guy that never belong to their kind; for he was always a yoater yipping from one yunerse to another. They didn't bother to know him and he was never interested in them any way. He will soon join his former self and be free as he could be; enjoying good meals and a comfy house; it would be like 1981 all over again. Eddie Griffin, Little Wayne and Santino Ayuel Longar will grow their tails as long as River Nile and starting fucking their ancestors while they are at it; Goloyieng doesn't do that kind of thing. Rooy, Gapayer is where his ancestors are. Waking up and working your hands to the bone is yultify as a blessing from Yuer. Goloyieng misses the life that he was plucked away from when the year 1981 took over.

Africa Update

BRITTLE PAPER (@brittlepaper) -

Kids in South Africa can now enjoy an entertaining game that also helps to improve their reading abilities called Mogau’s Kingdom. Plans are underway to make the game available in 11 official South African languages! Click to read more: https://brittlepaper.com/2021/09/mogaus-kingdom-is-a-south-african-mobile-kids-game-promoting-reading/.

Nakuru Readers Club with Judith

By Lilys Njeru

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

My book club is called Nakuru Readers Club with Judith

We are reading power of positive thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale

Although I started the club with six members, we are now a group of 16 book lovers

To join our book club, you can reach us on social media platforms- Nakurureadersclub

[goloyieng]

The Yillage of Yeksa In the Goloyieng home yillage of Yeksa, all yeople are required by Yuer to work from the age of sixteen until 70, the appropriate age of retirement. They are normally born at age sixteen and start working at that time, however, just before death they drink the yuid called Yeksa to be born a new. When Goloyieng dies with the rope knife, he will appear again with the Yeksen of Gapayer, since his time on bue earth was a slight incident; he will never come face to face with Lengeys in any lifetime. His life in Rooy and Yeksa, Gapayer were always perfect to never look any where. In any case, he wanders to bue earth again, his ryith will self yullet and Goloyieng will instantly die at that moment, before getting enslaved by Maliduon.

[goloyieng]

MIYEN Matthew (@Miyen_mimdit) - Personally in the Horn I SUPPORT H.E Dr.

@WilliamsRuto, the Chief Hustler, for PRESIDENT in #Kenya come 2022, August. His political ideology and strategy on the BOTTOM–UP ECONOMIC MODEL are APPEALING to me as a regional Youth. IMPROVE 100% individual n House building hold Money bag-sufficiency.

For those who hold STRONG divergent opinions about Ruto and the Bottom–Up Model, we accommodate your views. We are simply fighting an ELITE SYNDROME that for one to be anything he/she must have had a KNOWN father, or political party or a social status. That mindset is SLAVERY.

William Ruto: The Bottom-Up Economic Model that we are advocating is premised on a candid and genuine conversation that puts women and young people at the centre of our country’s economy. The two groups have remained marginalised despite their huge potential in the transformation of Kenya. The low-interest rate regime that the Bottom-Up Economic Model propagates presents a new investment environment that delivers SMEs and entrepreneurs from the bondage of shylocks, helping them access affordable loans to fulfill their start-up, cash flow and investment needs.

We aim to reemodel our economy to give priority to small and medium-sized enterprises will facilitate growth at the grassroots where majority of Kenyans are struggling to get financing to expand their businesses.

On South Sudanese Update

Miyen - Most foreign states' interests center around CONTROL of oil investments oppts &the use of South Sudan to buffer the spread of Islamic fundamentalism. The US intends to use SSD to check the spread of Islamic fundms in the Upper Nile Valley+counter Chinese interests in the country.

Dear; Your Lordship the Mayor, Juba City Council,

There are NO LAWS within the legal jurisprudence of your office and that of State Government to fine SMEs, Mama Mbogas, Hawkers,& vendors for not op(ening)erating their bizs. Its ILLEGAL n IMPUNITY of the highest degree.

The #SouthSudan National Revenue Authority (NRA) should robustly encourage REGISTRATION of SMEs, Boda Boda guys, Small Scale Processing and Manufacturing company (s) both FOREIGN n local so as to tap into the GROWING TAX POOL that requires harnessing. Paying taxes is PATRIOTISM.

Decades and decades of South Sudanese whoring their time away in East Africa have produced citizens who think they know the East Africa region more than the Rutos and Musyokas of Kenya. Here is a young man who is talking South Sudanese politics, while at the same time spewing some truth who Kenyans should choose come August 2022. The time is ripe for the East African Federation to be realized already. Will Salva Kiir Mayardit become the next president of EAF, and followed by Ruto?

Below is an article from Harvard Business Review's August 2003 issue by Gardiner Morse on Bottom Up Economics; Bangladesh is way ahead on how best to empower vulnerable communities with microcredit loans.

Africa Update

H i s t o r y V i l l e (@HistoryVille) -

With a population of 793 million people, the United Nations has predicted that by 2100, Nigeria would be the third most populated country in the world, just behind China (1,020,665,216) and India (1,516,597,380).

Below are designs of Cape Coast International Airport by Kofi Anto, a final year Central University architecture student - Akorfa Ama Akoto.

Bottom-Up Economics

By Gardiner Morse

From the August 2003 Issue

Iqbal Quadir is best known as the founder of GrameenPhone, now Bangladesh’s largest phone company in terms of subscribers. During the 1990s, Quadir stitched together a global consortium that launched GrameenPhone in 1997 to provide mobile phone services throughout Bangladesh. His innovative scheme has allowed local entrepreneurs—mostly women—to buy cellular handsets with loans from microcredit pioneer Grameen Bank and then rent the phones, with airtime, to neighbors. Today, GrameenPhone has nearly 1 million direct subscribers, in addition to the 30,000 entrepreneurs whose handsets provide phone access to 50 million people. Quadir is now a lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In an interview and follow-up e-mails with HBR’s Gardiner Morse, Quadir argued that investing in local entrepreneurs, rather than funneling aid to their governments, may be the best hope for the world’s developing economies.

If GrameenPhone is so successful, why hasn’t it been widely replicated?

Good ideas aren’t replicated instantly; GrameenPhone took nearly five years to go from concept to launch. In most developing countries, it takes months to incorporate a new company and years to get a cellular license, not to mention the difficulties in assembling management and attracting capital. And in many countries, government bureaucracies resist entrepreneurial activities that may redistribute power. Vested interests protect private and public monopolies and quasi monopolies. There are systemic obstacles and huge barriers to entry.

Remember, also, that companies are not replicated outright anywhere. Specific features are. The question isn’t, Why hasn’t GrameenPhone been duplicated? It’s, Are there features of the GrameenPhone model that can be replicated in other environments? Its most important feature isn’t the phone system itself but the microloans that mobilize an army of individual entrepreneurs to profitably meet an unsatisfied need.

How else could the GrameenPhone model be applied?

Here’s one example. I’ve been talking with Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway scooter, about a new way to bring electricity to villages in developing countries. Dean is reengineering the Stirling engine, originally developed 200 years ago, to generate about one kilowatt of electricity, enough to light 60 small households. Now, instead of, say, Westinghouse building a single 200-megawatt power plant in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, imagine 200,000 microentrepreneurs, each purchasing a Stirling engine and selling one kilowatt in their respective communities in rural Uganda.

Explain the benefit.

Both approaches involve selling equipment from America for electricity in Uganda. But only the second empowers entrepreneurs from below, dispersing economic influence. Historically, such technological empowerment promoted the economic and political climate that gave rise to today’s developed economies. Water mills, eyeglasses, clocks, and other productivity-enhancing tools put power in the hands of entrepreneurs and merchants in medieval Europe, creating a countervailing economic force against coercive authorities. In response to entrepreneurs’ demands and growing economic clout, authorities made compromises, giving rise to important reforms such as property rights, enforcement of contracts, separation of the judiciary from the executive, and other checks and balances, creating the fertile ground for capitalism and democracy to take root. Similar economic and political changes need to take root in poor countries.

But isn’t lack of capital the real barrier to economic growth in developing countries?

The real problem is where the capital goes. Capital given to entrepreneurs creates jobs, economic growth, and, ultimately, improved governance. Capital given to predatory government bureaucracies only reinforces centralized authority and strengthens vested interests.

Foreign aid to governments in developing countries is based on conventional “wishdom”—it is more of a wish than a fact that poor countries consistently benefit from capital from rich countries. This aid is “wished” by rich countries to achieve geopolitical ends, to support the sale of their equipment and consulting services, and to alleviate poverty. The problem is, meeting the first two wishes by aiding governments can jeopardize the third. Supporting small entrepreneurs, however, promotes democracy and eventually helps satisfy all three wishes.

How should companies engage developing countries?

By promoting trade. Trade creates and sustains entrepreneurs who will pressure their governments to adopt pro-business policies. It creates jobs, drives innovation, and gives the people a political voice.

Consider the difference between giving $500 million in aid to the government of Kenya versus buying apparel from Kenya that allows 500 different entrepreneurs to make profits of $1 million each. While building identical foreign-exchange reserves, the latter creates many more jobs, produces bigger economic ripple effects, aligns the government’s interests with the country’s prosperity through taxation, and disperses power to a large number of businesses—all of which promotes democracy and growth.

Corporations can engage the citizens of poor countries in commerce. First, don’t just sell: Open factories in poor countries and create jobs. Develop and sell technologies that enable citizens to produce more; sell productivity tools, like cell phones and power generators, not soft drinks and cigarettes. Second, partner with small entrepreneurs, which is increasingly possible because they’re becoming connected through information technologies. Third, procure. Data processing and call centers can be moved to poor countries. Supplies and furniture can be bought there. Why couldn’t large corporations buy office furniture made in Africa? Why does office furniture need to be so uniform and boring in America?

What’s in it for companies? Isn’t their business ultimately about making profits?

All of these are profitable moves. Cost reduction and market expansion are always profitable. Locating production facilities in poor countries, partnering with local entrepreneurs, and procuring goods and services there reduce costs. Because buying from poor countries expands their purchasing capacity, rich countries’ corporations, in their own interests, should urge their governments to lift barriers for importing from poor countries. All these actions will expand markets. Focusing solely on selling to developing countries is self-defeating. Unless productivity and purchasing power in developing countries are raised, companies in rich countries cannot boost their sales or profits there.

Businesses cannot ignore the broader contexts. Profits should be seen as a means, not an end. I put together GrameenPhone with that in mind.

If capitalism is based on profit maximization, why shouldn’t profits be an end?

I don’t see capitalism in that limited way. GrameenPhone’s 2002 profits of $44 million allowed the company to expand its services. Profits attract investors and allow old investors to exit. So profits remain the means for assembling the project, expanding the services, and rewarding investors. Adam Smith and his followers argued that under certain conditions profit maximization automatically leads to the common social good. That is, profit maximization can be a means.

Even if profits are a means to build things, corporate managers are forced to see them as an end.

That’s because they are focused on the short term. Increasingly, they will come to see profits as a means. Remember, companies face an evolving set of standards that affects their conduct. How those standards change depends on the knowledge and organizational ability of citizens. For instance, after citizens groups—acting directly or through their governments—demanded higher environmental standards, companies could no longer ignore damage they may have been causing to the environment. Similarly, citizens groups are emerging with the help of new technologies, locally and globally, to demand better labor standards and more socially responsible behavior from companies. These types of demands on companies are bound to rise, requiring them to be more mindful of social needs and less focused on the single-minded pursuit of profits.

Companies will find, I think, that they generate more income when they proactively meet social needs than when they struggle to maximize profits each time they are forced to adapt to new, more exacting social and environmental standards. When they take action to address social needs, they are making profits a means to an end: the common social good.

Gardiner Morse is a former senior editor at Harvard Business Review.

Credit: DP Samoei Ruto on a campaign trail and Miyen Matthew.

[goloyieng]

Is Tut Kew now the de facto Prime Minister, Twitter commentator Chol Elijah asks?

The social media is awashed with belittling the accomplishments of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, but all in all, what should South Sudanese expect from a brand new nation state, bereft with little infrastructure and institutions of governance, especially when the nation they separated from was more, or less closely affiliated with the Middle Eastern states, and not culturally linked to Nigeria, their brotherly nation, and compound that with the culture of military warfare that gave birth to the contemporary leaders. Toroitich Arap Moi led Kenya for some 24 years and thanks to his unwavering and steadfast iron fist rule against the sex obsessed feminist led opposition parties; he was able to put Kenya on the right track for progress, and Kenya is now is the most industrialized nation in eastern and southen Africa, beside South Africa and Ethiopia. South Sudanese need sometime to change their mindset from the history of military warfare, and for that they don't need to change leaders in J1 every once in awhile, otherwise they risk destroying the few institutional infrastructure that they have put in place. Benjamin Franklin says, "time is money." South Sudanese presidency is a hotly contested affair and not many get to grace the stage in a generation; James Wani has been through thick and thin with Salva Kiir since independence. In Kenya, the long time opposition leader, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga didn't get the chance to grace the State House. If Tut Kew get to represent the Naath nation, then he really did use his time well to get the money for his people. Time will change the current Nuer leaders and some will get to vie for the presidency some day just like how Mzee Jomo Kenyatta left the most coveted seat to Arap Moi to steer Kenya to another whole level.

On a Different Note

On Juba Rental Discrimination

By Tearz Ayuen

I’ve, of late, been reading about how landlords and landladies in Juba make it impossible for Dinka (and Nuer and Shilluk) to rent an apartment, home or shop in the capital.

This is a fact. I personally experienced such a discrimination a decade ago during my office-sponsored relocation process from Nairobi. Shortly before my stay at Hamza Inn came to an end, the HR reminded me of the need to look for a place to move to. It used to cost the organization $100 per night.

So, I embarked on the mission. By then housing was a huge problem in Juba. I could have just stayed at my uncle’s place at Amarat if it wasn’t for the promise I had made to myself not to bother others when I have the power to do things by myself.

Anyway, every Bari landlord would ask: “Yita min ween?” And whenever I said “Nairobi,” “La” was the next word that flew out of their curious mouths. “Yita Denka mush kede?” I’d nod in confirmation.

I was given cold shoulder everywhere I enquired about a vacant place. Others would ask: “Mama taki ween?”, “Malu yita der geni barau?” or “Malu shaar ketir zede?”

However, I understood some of their concerns triggered by my ever “gangsta” appearance. They thought I was a crook and could commit some crimes in the neighborhood later. Luckily with the help of a friend, a female prisons officer offered me a place at Jebel, directly opposite the blue house.

I think she partly gave me benefit of the doubt, knowing that she could just shoot my dreadlocked ass if I started showing true Jiengism. hehe. I spent one and a half years there before returning to Nairobi in August 2011. I’m a good family friend now.

Later on, I got to know why the Bari “hate” the Dinka. As a journalist, stories of land and property disputes started coming out, with some largely remaining unreported due to death threats.

In summary, Bari do not reach rental agreements with some Dinka because of the experiences they have had with other Dinka.

They mention only two problems: One - after moving into a property, a Dinka will not pay rent, claiming “There’s no money. Hakuma has not paid me, my friend.”

He uses physical and gun violence to intimidate the landowner. At some point, he may involve the rogue military or national security unit to completely silence the landlord. He lives rent-free. Some landlords have been jailed for trying to cry for his property.

And two: a Dinka, after some times, will stop paying rent because he has “owned” the property. Through gun power and the Dinka-liberated-this-land mentality, he will acquire a title deed for the same land he lives on as a tenant.

To make it worse, a very unconcerned individual has been charged with delivering justice.All he does is swear-in presidential appointees. Now put on such a Bari man’s shoes.

The Dinka think it’s an organized hate operation, but the truth is, it’s more of genuine mistrust. When one rents out a place, they expect the signatory to honor the deal. So, they don’t want to lose their property just like that.

Of course I know they know not every Dinka is a looter, but they fear losing their businesses. Nobody in his right mind would like to continue to do business with someone who has no clue what business means.

In conclusion, the Dinka should embark on a soul-searching retreat if they do not believe the aforementioned reasons behind the no-Dinka-allowed toxic atmosphere.

If the Dinka believe my points and would like to reverse the situation, well and good – they should do something about it. If not, whoever smells the Bari justified mistrust should just sneeze it off. Period.

Tearz © 2021

Images: Chol Elijah, Hon. Tut Kew Gatluak, President Salva Kiir Mayardit, Liberty Media promoting nhier oo album live in Nyumazi on September 26th, and Laugh Festival coming up on October 15th, featuring the Deputy Mayor of Juba, Thiik Thiik Mayar @ Freedom Hall.

[goloyieng]

1978 For There Was Never Apioth to Begin With, Goloyieng Was the Past, the Present and the Future; Consider Him Living in Rooy, Gapayer All this Time, While His Fake Trash was Getting Trample Upon He doesn't know the personality of other people; he also doesn't know which plants have the potent curing remedies for ailments and personal relief. In addition, he feels pain like no one else in the world; the fear instilled in him, gives him the most cowardly hellish nightmare ever created since there is no life to enjoy amidst the challenges bestowed upon him by yuer. He never belonged to the Lengey race, to begin matters with. There are so many things that he doesn't know about the world; all the things that could come handy when need arise. This is the only guy that never belong to their kind; for he was always a yoater yipping from one yunerse to another. They didn't bother to know him and he was never interested in them any way. He will soon join his former self and be free as he could be; enjoying good meals and a comfy house; it would be like 1981 all over again. Eddie Griffin, Little Wayne and Santino Ayuel Longar will grow their tails as long as River Nile and starting fucking their ancestors while they are at it; Goloyieng doesn't do that kind of thing. Rooy, Gapayer is where his ancestors are. Waking up and working your hands to the bone is yultify as a blessing from Yuer. Goloyieng misses the life that he was plucked away from when the year 1981 took over.

[goloyieng]

Mirror! Mirror! What Do You Have in Store for Goloyieng? The mirror says, "a whole lot of great life wealth, and yata Goloyieng the list comprises of Mama Yorpiou, Mama Yonye, Mama Yiraliu Mama Yulu, Mama Yeng, Mama Rielpiou, and Mama Yege, Mama Yierteng, Mama Piethi and Mama Zomi. The ladies thought they were going to drag Goloyieng to the deepest of bue earth, but they got the wrong fellow. He is bound to be born a new in Rooy, Gapayer and better clone women are going to mop Goloyieng to a better secure environment with better brothers; the kind of life wealth he was enjoying, before coming to bue earth."

[goloyieng]

Lueny Stay the Hell Away, What was Goloyieng Meant Do? He was meant to die a brutal death in Renton, New Mexico. Goloyieng had no choice, but to die this way; the sooner he realizes this, the better. Had he died in Nairobi, Kenya, twenty years ago; he would have grown some balls now in Rooy, Gapayer. The road ends in Renton, New Mexico. It is either he plushes the air out to stop the pain, or stay as a Lengey slave for a lifetime; the choice is his to make. Like the Lengey Bor girl, Khamisa, three handicapping spirits move into hallucinating Goloyieng that Caucasiod are bad. Asians almost skinned Goloyieng alive at Yauketui Indian Center in February, 2021. It does the opposite by creating lies that these people are so bad and hella fabricated myths every second. Things that are impossible for a normal human being to even think about waved through his storage tank every second. A normal life where Goloyieng would work from 9 to 5 at Melojug Fruits Company in Gualyek, Yekker would have been ideal for him. As it approaches the yird departure date at 8 pm on October 5th, 2021; there would be excuses to run away from the hell bestowed on him by wayward wretched of the earth people from Lengey world. Yeart is where the truth and love of people are continually made to connect with the actual world, however, the mind is a total storage wreck of the world; past memories are stored there and it is always on the attack mode to refuse new entries to the classy world already created by the yeart. It is always a good idea to keep the loose canal called the mind on a leash to avoid getting shattered to pieces by the Caucasoid Americans and Asians. The three handicapping spirits survive on wrecking the mind into a submissive mode; for how long is Goloyieng going to tolerate the enslavement of the mind? The Yoruba says life came from somewhere and so Goloyieng must yien there. Goloyieng needs not think that the fifth is the end of the world; he has to take it as righting the wrong from the madness he has come to know for 38 years. It is stepping into a world of bountiful plenty and well made life worth sacrificing for.

[goloyieng]

Loz Ah of East Africa Rift Habesha, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Mozambique, and parts of South Africa will get to be rift apart to create their new continent and a brand new ocean take yonder. From earth core with ahing away Yemenis, leaving Lengeys to take care of their lives until they find the right way to be wealthy; so Goloyieng won't have to come and enslave for their dirty asses; Goloyieng had a big yeam for his life and it was stolen for reasons he doesn't understand. The Yemenis were looking for their own continent and there we have it, smack earth cutting right to the core, push away of Yemenis ass to the Somali ocean. Goloyieng will forever be a worker of Rooy, Gapayer. The Game will remain a Lengey God, and Pasco Mombasa will leave for Zandesha; the Game was too drunk anyway on Spokane street and Pasco Mombasa won't know whether Goloyieng have left for Rooy, Gapayer, or not. He might press the wrong button, to give Goloyieng money, the next time. Lengey riders will always kowtow to him and the Mombasa self driveless man will live in the brand new continent, along with Lengeys; the continent shall therefore be called Zandesha. When Goloyieng appears seated; he is not in any way, he might be cooking some delicious food in Rooy, Gapayer while actually standing; when he is watching TV; he is perhaps growing crops for consumption. He is a professor of all sorts of things. He is always riding from place to place and through space and time in Gapayer and the yunerses of his wealth creation.

[goloyieng]

China Tech Begins African Voyage, Escaping Clampdown at Home

By Ndubuisi Ekekwe

In this piece ( https://www.tekedia.com/the-chinas-clampdown-expect-acquisitions-of-african-startups-by-chinese-firms-alibaba-could-acquire-jumia/)I postulated that Chinese technology companies which are under severe attacks at home would begin to explore Africa for growth. With the American market extremely hard to break into, and India a no-go area (yes, the government banned some of the apps), Africa is the remaining core natural destination.

Just as predicted, it is happening. Didi, the Uber-for-China, is launching in Nigeria. Expect it to give heat to Uber, Bolt and the local players in this sector. Didi will not be alone. Pinduoduo, Alibaba and others which are listed in New York are coming.

People, if you have a really huge customer base in Africa, expect big knocks at the door; China tech will like to come in to ensure that New York is not rattled as it loses steam in the home nation.

But note one thing: these paralyses would not be the end. Yes, these companies would work hard to find ways to grow so that they can keep trading in foreign stock markets where they currently trade. Alibaba has been wounded in China due to the clampdown, and the US investors are certainly not happy. So Alibaba needs to find ways to mitigate this domino. Simply, I expect it to look for more markets and territories to enter.

Africa seems to be a good destination. Do not be surprised if Alibaba decides to acquire Jumia in the next coming months to pacify investors in the US that it is looking beyond China for its future. I also see opportunities for leading promising startups in the continent. Chinese firms will need to pick many pieces from many countries, and then combine them for a continental impact.

But Africa, do not sell cheap and remember this – the largest financial institution in Nigeria by market cap is now OPay which was last valued at $2 billion after Softbank invested $400 million, meaning that China tech is a master of blitzscaling. People, it’s time to upgrade the gameplan or another chance may not come.

On a Different Note

Dear Awut Deng - general education and instruction minister of South Sudan,

Good morning. Just a quick one. Kindly have text books that are meaningful written for schoolchildren. For example, books that teach our children how to change tyres or use laptop. Give "general" in the ministry's title a meaning.

This is because teaching children about the longest river in the world or the highest mountain or the first president of US is a waste of time and resources.

Majority of us are now armed to the teeth with nothing but declarative knowledge and that's why we struggle at workplaces - we are not our diplomas and degrees 😭

Yours sincerely,

Tearz Ayuen,

Parent.

Courtesy of Arik Atekdit

A Kenyan, DR. K. N. JACOB wrote this NOTE

Open Letter to H.E. William Samoei Ruto - Deputy President, Kenya 🇰🇪

Listening to you in the last couple of weeks, your heart is very heavy. Please relax. What are you lacking? Your ambition is not worth your life. You’ve dangerously stretched your heart. I know it. I suffered heart failure last year. Slow down my brother. The race to State House is not a life and death affair.

Vice Presidents Michael Kijana Wamalwa and George Saitoti perhaps had a better chance than H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta to succeed President Mwai Kibaki, regrettably, they never lived to see post-Kibaki Kenya.

H.E. Morgan Tsvangirai was widely expected to replace Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. But his presidency never materialized. Albert Luthuli and Steve Biko never lived to see post-apartheid South Africa.

Pursue your dreams with moderation. Rachel and your kids need you. Kenya will be there long after you and I are gone. No matter our strategies and hard-work, promotion comes from God (Psalm 75:6-7).

Neither Uhuru nor Kibaki worked half as you do for the presidency. And none of these two presidents have sacrificed half of what Raila Odinga and Kenneth Matiba have suffered.

We plan but God’s purposes prevail over our plans (Proverbs 19:21).

I’m praying for God to keep you in perfect health and peace. Just do what you must. Don’t kill yourself to prove a point to your competitors. It’s never that serious. While you’re compromising what matters the most - your health and family - to be the next Commander in Chief, most of your country men and women are praying for the basics of life.

Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

DR. K. N. Jacob

Images: Chinese tech giant Didi, Will Smith new memoir: Will; Emoni Bates and Jalen Duren, a possible remake of Kobe Bryant and Shaq of the early 2000s at the University of Memphis this year?, and a gorgeous Chinese beauty.