So settler colonial community that stayed here for few years and run mostly loss making enterprises were the make or break.
Uganda was one of richest colonies in East Africa - thanks to Cotton and Copper.
Kenya was ever on the begging list of British colonial office in London - even whatever Delamare was trying was not profitable - and he was a butt of jokes in London. Most settlers had borrowed in Britain - to try everything - sheeps, goats, maize, tea, dairy - and most never broke even. Some who had sold family jewels - were now condemned to stay in Africa forever.
Countries like Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana - never really needed money from London to run it's affairs.
Place like Congo were super-profitable for Belgium.
Kenya has literally nothing - just baren unfertile land teeming with wild animals, crazy tribes fighting each other and pretty much no industry could take off until 1940s-1950s with maybe tea and coffee getting off ground.
Anyway I digress. Suffice to say Kenya was mostly a loss making colony - a drain on the British Exchequer - unlike Uganda that had a thriving cotton industry from 1900! Then copper in Jinja and generally great climate.
I think we have talked so much about politics and governance; it's easy stuff; just talk and talk.
The hard stuff is building roads, bridges, railways - and that is REAL GOVERNANCE missing.
We have classified basic gov services - like gov giving us paved roads, piped water, and electricity - as DEVELOPMENT.
Which is a big mistake in my view.
People should start rioting because they don't have a paved road, garbage is uncollected, electricity missing and etc - rather than BBI or Raila or NO peace.
That is paradigm shift that is missing in Africa.
Tanzania didnt have an established settler colonial economy. Kenya strategic location worked for us before and post colonial period. Read my article. I am addressing goverance issue not economic ones
No goverance is an issue in kenya. We need stability in rv and coast. We need kikuyus and other expansionist tribes to be allowed freedom to live everywhere without victimization