Briefly Told…

What Kenyan Companies Are Doing To Survive These Hard Times

• Using the internet to cut down on communication costs.
• Using the internet to cut down on marketing costs and still reach their targeted markets.
• Diversifying (a dangerous strategy because it usually unfocuses a business and its’ management team.)
• Raising the price (this worked beautifully for a certain Kenyan company (see our email article).
• Opening a subsidiary in neighboring countries where the cash is still flowing. Tanzania, Uganda and more recently Rwanda are the most popular destinations.
• Read our full report that mentions some of the names of Kenyan companies involved in examples given. Titled, What Kenyan companies are doing to survive these hard times, it is available via email, only to our subscribers. To subscribe now send a blank email to Kumekucha-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


The deadly link between crime, bad governance and the 500,000 jobs a year that never came

The shocking reason why crime is so low in neighboring countries and so high In Kenya.

What do youngsters who can only admire the lifestyles of their agemates from rich families do? Actually it seems most of them go into violent crime. They join the group of dangerous Kenyan carjackers prepared to kill with little or no provocation.

It is extremely sad to realize that the typical age for a dangerous carjacker is between 15 years old and 21.

Experiences of the Narc government (Now the NAK coalition) prove that it is not possible for a government that is heavily involved in corruption to fight crime effectively. Actually the two are very similar crimes.

It is instructive that in neighboring countries where poverty levels are higher, violent crime is still extremely low. In fact it is Kenyans who are robbing banks and generally exporting crime to those countries.


AIDS? What’s that?

Shocking Sex habits of Nairobi office workers and the crude email that tells it all

In times of war, people usually become very sexually promiscous. There is no war in Nairobi currently (even the war on corruption was a war that never started, as Kenyans have discovered this week) but office workers have just gone overboard.

Is it the pressures of work? The difficult economic times or what?

An outsider visiting Nairobi on a weekend will be shocked. It’s like Aids does not exist or Nairobi has been declared Aids-free.

A recent crude email circulating in email inboxes seems to confirm this dangerous behaviour amongst Nairobi office workers. It portrays boring work the whole week -- illustrated by a multimedia line drawing in full motion, hitting their head against the desk repeatedly. Fridays are filled with beer bottles but most of the weekend is filled with lots of sex illustrated by the line drawing repeatedly moving from one position to another of the act.