Topic: Kenya is ahead of Nigeria in all Aspects. (Read 155 times)

Yes, but. When you come together, make the "government" you form to be hands-off regardin how it acts on citizens within Africa. Why? If you don't, you will be making a harsh dictatorial government over yourselves. Rather, let that government - the United States of Africa - be able to only tax enough to do the only thing that it should be allowed to do... protect from invasions from outside Africa. If you don't do it this way, you will be subjecting yourselves to harsh slavery from the government you set up to keep you free.

I am from the East African nation. i would rather we focus on coming together as Africans to try and foster better future for both of our nations. the arguments you make are right. but Kenya also faces challenges such as corruption, and increasing Chinese debt level. good thing here is that we seem to have some systems working- such as ICT sector which is very supportive of entrepreneurial spirit, innovation etc. what will save us is more intra-African trade. maybe an african crypto currency.  i'd love to visit nigeria one day.

Kenya can be ahead in terms of decrease level of violence and corruption but not in terms of population size

Only the ethnic group in power provides the corruption. The rest is simply tribal squabbles.

No I am Nigerian. And I think the biggest problem we have as a nation is ethnicity. There are over 300 ethnic groups in Nigeria and each one just wants to project themselves. This leads to a high level of Corruption in the country.

But mostly because Kenya comes before Nigeria in the alphabet.

The Kenya population is over 51 million. The Nigeria population is more than 197 million. The city of Lagos, Nigeria, alone has about 22 million.

There are lots of things to consider when trying to decide which is ahead of which.



P.S.  Kenya's saving grace is that Obama's father came from there.

LOL. Yes it's true. But they are best known for their wildlife and natural resources

I am saddened by the continuous act of some of my compatriots to always engage in social media fight with fellow Africans, most notably our brothers and sisters from Ghana and Kenya.

It is even unfortunate that these countries Nigeria youths love to abuse on social media are doing better than our potentially great country in virtually all sphere despite the fact that we(as a country) have more revenues, potentials, and opportunities. If Nigerians are not aware of the superiority(in terms of living) of other Africans over us, I will have to educate them using Kenya as a case study.

While Nigerians have always pride in the self titled "African Giant" rhetoric, facts on ground shows otherwise. Though we generate more revenue than Kenya, which is 70% due to the gift of nature under our soil(Petrodollars), Nigerians still lag behind greatly in basic things when compared to the East African giant.

According to 2015 data from World Health Organisation, Nigeria's male and female life expectancy are 52years and 56 years respectively, meaning an average Nigerian is expected to die before he/she turns 60. Meanwhile, the expectancy for Kenyan male and female are 61 and 66 years respectively. Similarly, while Nigeria has the 10th highest infant mortality rate worldwide with average 72 deaths per 1,000 birth, Kenya's infant mortality rate is rated 52nd in the world with average 32 deaths per 1,000 births. This means it is safer to give birth in Kenya than in Nigeria, and an average Kenyan living in Kenya is expected to live longer than an average Nigerian living in Nigeria.

Though Nigeria has more tourism potential than Kenya, but Kenya is one of the choice destination for vacation in East Africa. While Nigeria managed to rake in $601 million as Tourism receipt(Revenue) in 2014, Kenya raked in $1.833 billion in the same year. Nigeria can't even boast of a National carrier meanwhile Kenya Airways, the National Carrier of Kenya boasts of 45 Aircrafts in their fleet with 4,000 workforce strength. In addition, Kenya Airways is reputed to be one of the best in Africa.

In Africa, Kenya is the leader of Mobile money. Nigeria is still still battling to get it right in the ICT sector with poor infrastructure, lack of power, lack of political will, and fantastically corruption.

At present Nigeria is experiencing recession in her economy, one would expect Nigerians to shun frivolties and seek for ways to turn the recession to prosperity instead of wasting productive hours fighting our African brethren over irrelevances. Why would one who is rationing his/her phone battery life due to epileptic power supply still spend the little battery life s/he got through his/her generator to abuse someone in Nairobi who is neither rationing his/her phone battery life nor is depending on generating set for power? There is no trophy or reward for social media fight, Nigerians should stop sending the wrong image to the world that our greatness lies in social media wars.


Nigeria is a great country with potentials, filled with great prospects, but we can never be great if we don't channel our time and resources to fix our country.

A word should be enough for the wise... May God Bless Us All, and Bless Nigeria

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RESOURCES: http://world.bymap.org/InfantMortality.html
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.RCPT.CD
http://www.who.int/countries/nga/en/
http://www.who.int/countries/ken/en/