Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

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Mkenya atakuambia apo sio DSM sio rahisi akubali

Hapo ni dar..majengo zinakaa kimkmombasa

 

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A Ugandan perspective of Nairobi city

POSTED 17/11/2011
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Kampala City should emulate Nairobi’s orderly development
By William G. Naggaga
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Last month, my wife and I spent a week in Nairobi visiting family members, taking in the beauty of the city, plus ‘medical tourism’. Nairobi is a city of my youth, I went to university there from 1967 -70. It was and still is the most cosmopolitan city in East Africa. I used to joke with my friends in Makerere and Dar-es-Salaam that while some of us were studying in a real city, they were stuck in small towns.
Since I left university, I have gone back to Nairobi countless times. The city has continued to grow in an orderly and planned manner, almost non-stop. A break of a couple of years from going there will surprise you; as old sleepy neighbourhoods you knew are turned into new suburbs complete with skyscrapers, highways, shopping centres, schools, hospitals, etc., all laid out neatly with trees and plants lining the streets. This is in direct contrast to Kampala which has haphazardly expanded in size without actually developing.
Kampala City, if you can call it a city, is nothing more than a collection of ‘slum’ dwellings, with a very poor infrastructure dating back to the 1920s – 30s when the city had a population of less than 300,000 (compared to 3m – 4m today). Although it has expanded in size from seven hills to over 22 hills, the city infrastructure has lagged behind by decades. Less than 10 per cent of Kampala is covered by the central sewerage system. There are hardly any good roads to talk about and a large number of residents of Kampala have no running water.
Besides the infrastructure, the city authority has abdicated its planning responsibility and its engineers, health inspectors, market supervisors and what have you, only exist in name. Unplanned buildings have collapsed in the middle of the city killing and injuring people and hardly anyone has been prosecuted. There are cases of well-connected people blocking off public roads and converting them into private roads. Others have actually built in road reserves, well knowing that they are blocking other people’s access.
Plots of land are sub-divided into ridiculously tiny sizes and huge ugly structures are crammed into them. The few roads that exist are unlit, except when the Chogms of this world come to town. The bulbs are thereafter stolen. A small downpour floods the city because Nakivubo Channel and other outlets have become garbage dumps. Incidentally, less than 60 per cent of the garbage generated everyday is ever collected, part of it by companies privately engaged and paid for by residents. The city authority remains backward, inefficient and corrupt.
Going back to Nairobi, the city is unrecognisable from what it was in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and even in 2000! It has developed in an orderly fashion with fully integrated satellite towns; all built according to the city plans and by-laws, which specify in detail the type of developments allowed, down to the sizes of plot in which they are constructed. In the city, boda bodas and matatus are banned in the central business district which is serviced by private cars, buses and special hire taxis. Plans are underway to build a commuter train service that will make transport more affordable to the local people commuting into the city.
Upscale suburbs like Riverside, Milimani, Kilimani, Lavington, Mathaiga, Karen, Lower Kabete, etc., are comparable to upscale neighbourhoods in a developed country. The number of foreigners (including Ugandans) investing in real estate in Nairobi, is on the rise.
For Kampala to remotely resemble Nairobi the following must happen:
• All illegal structures must be demolished regardless of who owns them.
• A new master plan for Kampala should be drawn up in consultation with all stakeholders.
• The law that established the Kampala Capital City Authority must be reviewed in order to clearly define the functions / roles of the Lord Mayor and those of the Executive Director of the Kampala Capital City Authority. The present situation of deliberate ambiguity in their roles is untenable and will only lead to the total collapse of order in the city.
• Government should inject massive resources for modernisation of the city and act as a guarantor of borrowed funds, without interfering in the running of the city.
• All professional staff should be recruited on the basis of meritocracy and not political affiliation.
• The people must be sensitised on all new plans for Kampala and made partners in its development.
Mr Naggaga is an economist, administrator and retired ambassador

Even Nigerians in Nairaland praise Nairobi for its modernism...but our southern Neighbours are full of childish jealousy

 

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Maneno ya wakosaji watchman

Hahaha fact unaogopa

 

[aganza]

Povuuuuuu

ngoje namimi nije mjini sitaki kukaa tena kolomije

 

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Povuuuuuu

Try Tusker not that south African bullshit

 

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Nairobi mpaka wawe na usafiri wa jiji classics kama wa DSM sijui itakuwa mwaka gani , nimekuwa Nairobi matatu ni uchafu tu ikifika jioni watu wote wanakaa kwenye pub za mjini ambazo mostly zipo first floors ya majengo mengi ya katikati ya jiji wakiwa wanasubiria foleni ipungue
Kuna moja nilikuwa naipenda kukaa inaitwa edge ila nikagundua watu pia wana hali ngumu za uchumi mtu mtu bia akinywa analamba mpaka mda wa kuondoka kanywa moja tu

duuh kweli hatar

 

[aganza]

duuh kweli hatar

 

[kadoda11]

Why castle not Serengeti????

castle lager is my favorite beer.huwa sichanganyi beer.

 

[ichoboy01]

hongera kwa kujifariji.

Kashindwa kuleta taxi za kisumu

 

[kadoda11]

Try Tusker not that south African bullshit

the castle beer I'm drinking isn't made in SA,it's a tanzanian product brewed by tanzania breweries ltd.

 

[ichoboy01]

Hahaha kwanza want transportiwa kama mambuzi kwa hizo ma bus....unapata bus moja imebeba wasee 2 soo na mob wamesimama

Hahaha yaonesha inakuuma sana

 

[kadoda11]

Acha kujifariji nimejionea kwa macho kwa Mara ya kwanza mtu ana lamba bia ili isi ishe apo Nairobi

 

[ichoboy01]

Bongo

 

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Nairobi...
Nairobi...
Nairobi...

 

[aganza]

Nairobi...
Nairobi...
Nairobi...

Imefanyeje?

 

[El Matador]

Its safe to say that Tanzanians are pretenders....roho za wivu na choyo. ...as per this article



Tanzanians ‘among meanest in Africa’
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By Songa wa Songa, The Citizen Reporter
Dar es Salaam. Contrary to the widely-held belief about our unrivalled generosity and compassion, Tanzanians are amongst the meanest people in Africa, according to the World Giving Index 2014.
Yet, interestingly, neighbouring Kenya—a nation we have all along associated with ruthless capitalism and self-centredness as opposed to Tanzania’s more humane socialist background—has emerged the most generous and compassionate on the continent.
The new study released by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) was conducted by the market research firm Gallup and included data from 135 countries across the globe that were collected throughout 2013.
Tanzania ranked 14th amongst the 24 African countries surveyed and 87th globally with just 27 per cent, far behind Kenya which tops the continent with 49 per cent that also put it at number 15 globally.
Kenya is followed by Nigeria which stands at number 21 globally with its overall 44 per cent score. At number three is Uganda which scored 40 per cent and stood at number 34.
The top three meanest countries are Tunisia and Egypt with 21 per cent each, putting the North African countries at number 120 globally, followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo which stands at number 112 globally with its 22 per cent score. Notably, many of the countries Tanzania is ahead of are war-torn and volatile states.
In order to establish a rounded measure of giving behaviour, the researchers asked the respondents if they had done any of the following in the previous month prior to the study: donated money to a charity; volunteered their time to an organisation or helped a stranger, or someone they didn’t know who needed help.
Tanzania scored the highest in helping a stranger with 44 per cent followed by donating money, 23 per cent and the country performed worst in volunteering time to organisations, just 13 per cent. Kenya on the other hand, also scored the highest in helping a stranger with 67 per cent followed by donating money, 43 per cent and volunteering time with 37 per cent. Globally, the US shared first place ranking with Myanmar, both recording the score of 64 per cent which is the highest on record in the five year history index.
According to the report, the US is the only country to rank in the Top 10 for all three kinds of giving covered by the index: helping a stranger (1st), volunteering time (joint 5th) and donating money (9th).
Myanmar on the other hand, has improved on its joint second place reported in 2013, with an increase from 58 per cent to 64 per cent. Notably, the country’s lead ranking was mainly due to an extraordinarily high incidence of donating money, which has seen a further uplift this year to stand at 91 per cent from 85 per cent reported in last year’s report. Nine out of ten people within Myanmar follow the Theravada school of Buddhism, under which the lives of the Sangha (ordained monks and nuns) are supported by dana (charitable giving) by lay followers of the religion.
“This clearly translates into a strong culture of charity, with Myanmar ranked first for donating money and 13 percentage points ahead of the second placed country,” reads the report in part.
Sri Lanka, another country with a strong Theravada Buddhist community also ranked within the Top 10 of the World Giving Index. It is placed at number nine.
Overall, the number of people who helped others grew again by over 200 million in 2013, following a similar increase in 2012. This, according to the report, now equates to approximately 2.3 billion people worldwide having helped a stranger.
Amongst the fifteen countries with the largest positive gap between their 2013 giving score and their five-year average score—many of them developing economies— helping a stranger is the behaviour showing the greatest improvement, with an overall average increase of 12 percentage points.
However, whilst the incidence of helping a stranger and volunteering time continue to grow, giving money has fallen marginally this year, authors of the report pointed out.
The overall decline in giving money reflects a drop in the proportion of younger people participating in this behaviour, particularly those aged 15-29.
“In recent years, global youth unemployment has been high and continues to increase.
It may be this and a corresponding reduction in disposable income that is contributing to a reduced participation in giving money amongst the young,” the report reads.
The study has also found that since 2009, women have become more likely than men to donate money to charity at a global level despite the gap in economic participation that still exists between men and women worldwide.
However, reflecting this global disparity, the report noted that women are only more likely to give money in high income countries while in middle and low income countries men are more likely to donate.
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the castle beer I'm drinking isn't made in SA,it's a tanzanian brewed beer under tanzania breweries ltd.

But the profits go to south Africa.

 

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Hahaha yaonesha inakuuma sana

Enyewe inauma nkiona watanzania 200 wakijaza bus moja(wengi wao husimama) alafu wanawika BRT...BRT haga

 

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Enyewe inauma nkiona watanzania 200 wakijaza bus moja(wengi wao husimama) alafu wanawika BRT...BRT haga

hata nchi zote ....zenye mradi huu pia abilia husimama ......city bus ni tofauti na bus za masafa marefu ama mikoani.......population ya miji mikuu yenye mzunguko mkubwa wa kifedha hapa duniani asa kuanzia monday to friday ni siku za kuchakalika bus lazima zijae.......na ukitaka watu wasisimame.....basi agiza magari kila mtu amiliki lake kulingana na population...