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masukuma
#1 Posted : Saturday, January 19, 2019 4:22:08 PM
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So there is this "fact" that most of us regurgitate - Africa is the richest continent... (by resources)
How? Why?
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tinker
#2 Posted : Saturday, January 19, 2019 4:42:50 PM
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masukuma wrote:
So there is this "fact" that most of us regurgitate - Africa is the richest continent... (by resources)
How? Why?

Gold in Msanzi, Diamond in Botswana just to mention 2 out of 54 countries.
Mining in this 2 countries has positively changed living standards of its people.

+ a young population of over 1 billion people which means available market and affordable labour.

My 2 cents.
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masukuma
#3 Posted : Saturday, January 19, 2019 5:33:11 PM
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tinker wrote:
masukuma wrote:
So there is this "fact" that most of us regurgitate - Africa is the richest continent... (by resources)
How? Why?

Gold in Msanzi, Diamond in Botswana just to mention 2 out of 54 countries.
Mining in this 2 countries has positively changed living standards of its people.

+ a young population of over 1 billion people which means available market and affordable labour.

My 2 cents.

how is the Gold here more than that in South America? India has more people than your whole continent... India is not the most populous country on the planet.
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MugundaMan
#4 Posted : Saturday, January 19, 2019 9:15:48 PM
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Believe it or not Africa is not the richest continent because of just mineral resources, but because of its vast arable LAND. It has the largest amount of arable land yet this potential is underutilised from a commercial farming standpoint, so as world population grows, Africa will be the continent to feed it in the long run. Also Africa has the youngest and fastest growing population that's why Chinaman is investing here very early as we are the future. Sino-Africa cooperation is the best thing that has happened to the continent my braddahs. Watch Africa boom hard in the coming 30 years. This is why I keep telling folks the time to invest in dustbowl is YESTERDAY. the superboom to come has not even started and dustbowl is ground zero of Kenya's economic push forward as our population inevitably grows and needs a place to lay its head as well as food to eat which will come from vast untapped dustbowl commercial farms (the only place close to Nairobi that has plenty of virgin land that has never been farmed before.

tinker
#5 Posted : Sunday, January 20, 2019 5:43:28 PM
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masukuma wrote:
tinker wrote:
masukuma wrote:
So there is this "fact" that most of us regurgitate - Africa is the richest continent... (by resources)
How? Why?

Gold in Msanzi, Diamond in Botswana just to mention 2 out of 54 countries.
Mining in this 2 countries has positively changed living standards of its people.

+ a young population of over 1 billion people which means available market and affordable labour.

My 2 cents.

how is the Gold here more than that in South America? India has more people than your whole continent... India is not the most populous country on the planet.


I Google'd the numbers and I agree with you smile .

2016 Stats
Africa = 1.216 billion people
India = 1.324 billion people
China = 1.379 billion people

It is time to face the facts.
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#6 Posted : Sunday, January 20, 2019 7:26:06 PM
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#7 Posted : Sunday, January 20, 2019 8:30:12 PM
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MugundaMan wrote:
Believe it or not Africa is not the richest continent because of just mineral resources, but because of its vast arable LAND. It has the largest amount of arable land yet this potential is underutilised from a commercial farming standpoint, so as world population grows, Africa will be the continent to feed it in the long run. Also Africa has the youngest and fastest growing population that's why Chinaman is investing here very early as we are the future. Sino-Africa cooperation is the best thing that has happened to the continent my braddahs. Watch Africa boom hard in the coming 30 years. This is why I keep telling folks the time to invest in dustbowl is YESTERDAY. the superboom to come has not even started and dustbowl is ground zero of Kenya's economic push forward as our population inevitably grows and needs a place to lay its head as well as food to eat which will come from vast untapped dustbowl commercial farms (the only place close to Nairobi that has plenty of virgin land that has never been farmed before.




What happens to wildlife natural habitats and migratory routes huko dustbowl?? Already lions and wild dog are extinct huko dustbowl and Amboseli has shrunk to a surface area of 300Km(squared). We need to think hard as Africans about how we will manage this "vast" land.

I some times wonder how tiny countries like the UK with double the population of Kenya has managed human settlement and natural habitats

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#8 Posted : Thursday, January 24, 2019 3:42:35 PM
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From where I sit,I think the richest country or continent will be the one with sufficient water resources for it's population and export in the next >50yrs.
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masukuma
#9 Posted : Thursday, January 24, 2019 4:24:02 PM
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MugundaMan wrote:
Believe it or not Africa is not the richest continent because of just mineral resources, but because of its vast arable LAND. It has the largest amount of arable land yet this potential is underutilised from a commercial farming standpoint, so as world population grows, Africa will be the continent to feed it in the long run. Also Africa has the youngest and fastest growing population that's why Chinaman is investing here very early as we are the future. Sino-Africa cooperation is the best thing that has happened to the continent my braddahs. Watch Africa boom hard in the coming 30 years. This is why I keep telling folks the time to invest in dustbowl is YESTERDAY. the superboom to come has not even started and dustbowl is ground zero of Kenya's economic push forward as our population inevitably grows and needs a place to lay its head as well as food to eat which will come from vast untapped dustbowl commercial farms (the only place close to Nairobi that has plenty of virgin land that has never been farmed before.


arable land? - now how?

arable land! my tiny black ass!
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#10 Posted : Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:02:58 PM
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masukuma wrote:
MugundaMan wrote:
Believe it or not Africa is not the richest continent because of just mineral resources, but because of its vast arable LAND. It has the largest amount of arable land yet this potential is underutilised from a commercial farming standpoint, so as world population grows, Africa will be the continent to feed it in the long run. Also Africa has the youngest and fastest growing population that's why Chinaman is investing here very early as we are the future. Sino-Africa cooperation is the best thing that has happened to the continent my braddahs. Watch Africa boom hard in the coming 30 years. This is why I keep telling folks the time to invest in dustbowl is YESTERDAY. the superboom to come has not even started and dustbowl is ground zero of Kenya's economic push forward as our population inevitably grows and needs a place to lay its head as well as food to eat which will come from vast untapped dustbowl commercial farms (the only place close to Nairobi that has plenty of virgin land that has never been farmed before.


arable land? - now how?

arable land! my tiny black ass!


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