My proposal is to make the encouragement of the Chinese settlements at one or more suitable places on the East Coast of Africa a par of our national policy, in the belief that the Chinese immigrants would not only maintain their position, but that they would multiply and their descendants supplant the inferior Negro race. I should expect the large part of the African seaboard, now sparsely occupied by lazy, palavering savages living under the nominal sovereignty of the Zanzibar, or Portugal, might in a few years be tenanted by industrious, order loving Chinese, living either as a semi-detached dependency of China, or else in perfect freedom under their own law.

The history of the world tells a tale of the continual displacement of populations, each by a worthier successor, and humanity gains thereby....The Chinese have a land hunger, as well as a love for petty traffic, and they would find a field in which to gratify both of these tastes on the East African Coast. There are many Chinese capitalists resident in foreign parts who might speculate in such a system and warmly encourage it. If once successfully started, it ought to maintain itself. The colonist could not starve; and when they began to succeed they would send money to their relatives to enable them to follow, just as they now do from the many other parts of the world where they are located. For these reasons it is probable that the streams of emigration from China have sufficient "head" to enable them to reach and overflow the coasts of Eastern Africa if they were watched and judiciously diverted in that direction.

“This is a constituent of traders that the President has asked us to handle very carefully and he is expecting an assurance that we have resolved the issue,” Mr Waita said.

KRA announced that it had introduced a regime of pre-shipment verification for consolidated goods that will, for instance, see goods consolidated in Guangzhou deal with quality benchmarks at the source before the cost of shipping is incurred.”

Mr Waita further told traders that government had started a crackdown on foreigners who are posing competition to locals by running small businesses after applying for licences to run big corporations.

The battle for heart of Nairobi petty trade rages on



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For those who don't know what the battle is all about. Consolidators are the somali/Arab traders(they take small goods from different traders put it in one container). The Chinese are the producers and now want to be distributors/retailers. Kikuyus who displaced the Indian traders and are now feeling heat of competition being pushed out of retail trade and run out of CBD by Chinese, Somali and Kisii.

Me thinks let fair competition prevail whoever is more business savvy should succeed...I love downtown biashara battles Mbeca ni mbeca

Any average Kenyan House has 85% products of China.
I think only the mud, stone and wood on the building are local. Everything else even the toilet handle is from China
So count what you have and gauge how rich China is not you!!!