How KENYAN SOMALIS Have Turned Kisumu City into a Thriving Business Hub!
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- How KENYAN SOMALIS Have Turned Kisumu City into a Thriving Business Hub!
Kisumu, known for its beauty and cleanliness is also home to a thriving Somali business community. Traditionally, Somalis have been traders and entrepreneurs, a heritage that has contributed to their global success. In this video, I will explore the influence and impact of the Somali community on the economy of Kisumu a city located on the shores of Lake Victoria.
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They are kenyan Somalians, our brothers , and I'm happy to see them building the economy .
Enkanye phoebe?
Kisumu is a big economy. Its success cannot be attributed to a handful of traders
lmagine
Fact
I'm Somali and have Great respect for the Luo community. Kisumu's success can only be attributed to the owners.
You will go places bro the famous wode Maya started with a single trip to Kenya n the rest is history
Wode Maya did not start with Kenya, he was already a big and famous youtuber.
@@bellaolum9768 wewe relax..
😂tunajua alikua famous before
It's not too late to delete this comment
Somali this Somali that. Somalis met a thriving Kisumu and a thriving Nairobi and now everyone wants to make it about them. Every Kenyan tribe is thriving everywhere.
Jealousy😂😂
@@Shamso697 Facts are facts. We are not here to sugarcoat things. If you are so great why are you not making your towns like Wajir or Kismayo as great?
You go to a thriving and well developed East African city, build a few nice houses or start two restaurants and somehow you and many others start thinking you made the city. In Africa, look at Kigali, Kampala, Nairobi, Lusaka, Luanda, Gaborone, Jo'burg, Durban, Maputo etc and tell me which one you built? I have never seen a more entitled lot.
@@derrickmutuma7185I agree 💯👍
Derrick you spoke my mind
Kisumu was there before Somalis
As someone who comes from Kisii County, and a frequent visitor of Kisumu, which happens to be my favourite town/city in Kenya, what title is that?! Let me assume it is just a clickbait. The people who actually make Kisumu thrive are the native Luos and Kenyans of Asian origin. We cannot talk of Kisumu without those two. Luhyas, Kisiis, Kikuyus and Somalis follow in that order. Attributing the growth of Kisumu to Somalis is quite misleading and insensitive. However, we cannot underestimate the contributions of Somalis as a Kenyan tribe, plus that of investors from Somalia. If you want to see a town where Luos and Somalis thrive, then you may consider Migori, which isn't far from Kisumu. Anyway, amazing video overall.
lmagine such an uninformed infuenzer how do you pick on Garrisa lodge which is negligible to overall economic growth of the city. What of transport business, fisheries, hotel, real estate ant tourism? These u- bers are ignorant or perhaps out to underate us...Not impressive conent...
The truth is that Somalis thrive anywhere except in their their country Somalia and cities like Garissa, Wajir in Kenya! I have always wondered why?
@@genesisbera7761 old men rivalry have destroyed them.
Its because there are no middle class or money in those places so they must go where money is for them to trade not all Somalis are rich but the few go to places where people have money and trade there
@@ostinlamar704exactly...these people are terrible at building things from scratch...they require others to do the groundwork of building and creating systems that work...then all of a sudden,they go there,set up some businesses and claim to have built the place
@@faithkerubo8357totally agree.
@@faithkerubo8357 it's proper infrastructure like Roads that attracts businesses. The government of Kenya ignored the plight of Northern people. Compare the infrastructures you have versus NEP.
Do proper research on the origins of Kisumu and its growth. The title of your video is very misleading. Somalis found kisumu thriving they didn't "turn it into a thriving hub!"
On point! He forgets that most Somalis are "nomadic traders" and only go where it's already thriving and with a disposable cash base. Their model of business adds no value because they neither produce, invent or improve the value chain.
@@bellaolum9768 no one has claimed somalis built kisumu or any other city for that matter. In fact Indians have more investment in kisumu. But outside Indians and Luos of kisumu which other african tribes are thriving kama sio wasomali. And this is true for every city in East, central and south of Africa. Acheni sour grapes 🍇
@@Abdimajid-j6e My point is that they found Kisumu thriving, they didn't make it thrive. If anything the Indian community can be credited for this and not walalos. Ciao! 👋🏽👋🏽
@@bellaolum9768 I have not even said somalis made kisumu thrive, we have a lot of towns to conquer babe. Enda siaya, migori, eldoret, busia, bungoma hata usibonge juu somali lady build bungoma from scratch Amina Hersi. So punguzeni hate na mu appreciate bidii ya watu juu wanachangia economy ama mu ZIP 🤫
@lifehacks1019 You took the nomadic term which relates to our camel herders and associated it with our businessmen, which is unrelated. There are many locations that were dead but bought back to life by Somali shops because we concentrate all of our capital into an area together as a team and not individual players that's why we have these business districts that we mostly own.
The kenyan somali guy in black cap knows his staff huyo ataomoka mbio sana. Somali are Kenyans same as me luo or kikuyu, they are everywhere even in small towns like kendu bay they hav a supermarket there, and a small shop that I must visit everytime am going home, I nolonger do my shopping in Nairobi while traveling to shags. very honest people sijawahi skia mtu ameibiwa or kutapeliwa na msomali, that alone is a recipe for success.. and they help each other alot.
Wafisadi kabisaaaaaOoh yes...😂😂 nani anachukuwa maplots za watu kanairo na kuangusha nyumba za watu.
@@nonofyourbusiness-q5ghio ni yako
Ssebo your title is misleading & off. Kisumu was a trading post way back before the railway line reached its shores in the early 1900's. Some historians have observed that the name Kisumu might have been derived from the word 'suma' which was used to connote a place of trade as per the lingua of the neighbouring Kisii and Maragoli people. The present day Kisumu is a thriving cosmopolitan city and a commercial hub with residents drawn from far and wide. Kisumu is the former administrative headquarters of the defunct Nyanza Province. Lastly, what the west calls Lake Victoria, the inhabitants of Kisumu and environs proudly call Nam Lolwe/Lake Lolwe.
exactly like Kisumu was thriving way long before the colonisation. Not to instigate but i dont get whais the hype of saying they are building wherever.
He needs to do proper research
Selling imports is negative for an economy. It takes away resources rather than cause it to thrive. What they should be doing is to sell and export local products. Then Kisumu will thrive for sure
@@AllinOne-co7gw name one export ie electronic
Even Nairobi doesn't have neatly paved roads in her markets,,,, Kisumu has changed my mindset,,,it has futuristic leadership,,, Nairobi is dirty and chaotic and it's not beautiful
Kikuyus don't want order. Kikuyus want to sell anywhere without order or rules. I have nothing against kikuyus, they are very hard working people but they hate orderliness, maybe they thrive in chaotic environment. nairobi will never be orderly.
Somalis are from the northern part of Kenya so they are part of us! This video is very informative. However "Hugo Boss" is a German Brand and not Tanzanian Brand! That trader clearly is not aware of the origin of his products 😅😅
Kenya na somali ni nchi tofauti.Nchi na mpaka ziko hapo kwa sababu.Ndio kuna passport ya kenya,uganda,
tz,somali etc.somali wako na sheria zao na kenya kuna sheria zetu.Hizi ni nchi 2 tofauti
This is good. I'm Kenyan and I like that Somali are thriving also outside eastleigh/southB/Kenyatta Ave
Merci
Somali is a tribe in Kenya,also drop a video of kisii or Kikuyu tribe in Kenya.
Kisumu is beautiful
Luos are also in North Eastern. Very good community
Always amazing and humble enjoying the vlog 👍 from Nairobi
There is also a huge congolese community doing hawking business in kisumu
You know somalis do business in one place all of them that is why it seems they are doing great bt other communities are also doing well only that they dont have such ego and they dont stay in one place like somalis bt trust me bro other communities are thriving only that they dont concetrate in one area like somalis
we are all kenyan,GENZs hatuna ukabila✌✌
Great content
Why are they not developing there nation back home ?
@@brianokero4991 bro human beings are not 100% perfect. Somalis have weakness too....they cant be perfect in everything.
Somalis are also pastoralist....they always move from one place to another. They cant stay in one place....thats why they moved from their homes in NorthEastern and neglected them. But thats also good opportunity for other tribes....i saw many big kikuyu business in Garissa. Business doesnt have boundaries
That guy is confused.Hugo is a German clothing company not Tanzanian
😂😂😂
True
the interviewer confused him with the Question.
but initially he meant he's getting all those shirts from TZ imo.
tho it's a Gmn brand
Blessings from the Rwandan Tutsi community, our blood Cushitic cousins Somalis are doing well.
Also great to so many of them also convert to Christianity these days.
@@PierreJJ. You are not cousins. You are Bantu. Bantus are genetically diverse. Infact, Mt Kenya bantus are more cushitic than you at 45% cushitic. You are more Nilotic.
@@derrickmutuma7185 Tutsi are not bantu. They are a mixture of cushitic and nilotic. Typically 60 percent cushitic and 40 percent nilotic. They just speak a bantu language that is all
@@derrickmutuma7185 Tutsi are not Bantus
@@derrickmutuma7185 then you haven't been to Rwanda and Burundi...they have Cushitic blood even most have same soft coily hair like Ethiopians/Somalis...Kikuyus of Kenya are far from Somalis...am both Kenyan and Ugandan so I know both people.
@@humanity9158 Hehe. I know how Tutsi people look like. I have some of them as friends. Thus, just because you have some slight similarity doesn't make you cushitic.
UG Connect you are doing great bro😂😂, this a great content
The boy in black t shirt walking behind my yusufu scared me😂 i thought he was going to snatch your camera😂😂
That is not Nairobi it's only on Nairobi where u can do such nonsense
Very cool
Well thank you Mr, Kenya now ngimanyi
Good people, Somalia are good people
Somali business model does not add value to Kisumu or elsewhere they set up as such, they do retail, buying stuff from wherever to re-sale for a profit, just like any other Kenyan or person, hardly creates employment, but it's just like a net to harvest money from the biggest middle class population that Kenya has in East Africa..,., Indians and Kikuyus are far much ahead and better in impacting the economy, as they have invested in manufacturing and various industries; like Keroche industries, employing a big number of people and contributing heavily in the economy; Indians have unvested in sugar industry and another manufacturing competing with the government set industies like Sugar sector.., coastal Swahili Arabs are in logistics.., but Somalis are merely shopkeepers mostly!!!!.., no difference with Kenyans selling clothes and stuff in various places or Ugandans in Owino Market.., the only plus is they work as a unit, or a community, they are united and makes them thrive fast, they even rent one house many people to cut on costs.., u find them living in one apartment or banded together in one estate.
Somalis employ many people than Indians. The number matters. There many somali owned businesses than Indians. Unles you don't count people working in hotels and wholesale businesses as employees. I would agree they aren't in the manufacturing sector that much but the economy interdependent. Manufacturing sector cannot prosper without booming wholesale and retail businesses. Also there will be little or no businesses without the middle class people. I'm not bragging but it is a fact on the ground. maybe you're less informed.
With headlines like this, they will be turning your ass next
The boy in black t shirt walking behind mr yusufu scared me😂 i thought he was going to snatch your camera😂😂
Kindly change the thumbnail. Women are not meant to be objectified and that goes strongly for muslim women
I found that question about circumcision the most insensitive and primitive question and shows your poor upbringing. Next time be sensitive about the communities you visit otherwise your comments might rub you the wrong way with pple
I will let it slide coz his question was neither here nor there so I don't feel offended. But don't worry whenever I've encountered that topic I've dealt with it conclusively and proportionately infact the m***er f****rs who raised it walked out of the topic in shame while wishing the ground would swallow them. Just the other day niliitwa mwendazimu when I gave my response to the same issue. I hope there're no perverts here also who want would wish to encounter my wrath. As long as we respect each other I ain't got no qualms with nobody.
Mimi kama mjaluo sija feel offended coz nimegundua perverts ndio huwa wako obsessed na hiyo maneno. Sijawahi jua kwanini wao hupenda mboro hivyo na ni wanaume.Therefore moving forward wherever we come across ujinga kama hiyo tutakuwa tunashughulika nayo proportionately so that it's sorted once and for all.
Banange ngala kusubula fabric Nairobi naye simanyi wentandikira
Point of correction - those somalis are "our brothers" They come from North Eastern- wrong once again to say that they make thriving business wherever country they go to. You are obsessed with people's origins... All communities in this country have there own roles to play in economy contributions... Research on what you show the world... 🌎 In this country we are one and co- exist......we blend as you were explicitly informed.....o.k. mr u- tuber?!
Bro i hope you carried maize flour with u while travelling to kenya. According to the latest news 1 million kenyans are threatened by hunger.
Infact the largest landmass of Kenya is habited by Somali tribe.
That is a lie. Wth is largest landmass? And, if you mean North Eastern, it is not the largest province and neither is it inhabited by Somalis only.
@@ImDevin25 the biggest is Kikuyu followed by kalenjins
@@njeruchristinenkatha Kikuyu are many population-wise not landmass wise. That is why they are the proponents of One Man One Shilling. The Northern part of Kenya is quite vast.
@@njeruchristinenkatha Can you listen to yourself? The whole of central province is less than 10000km² ,can you compare it with wajir county alone which is 55000Km² stop joking. Central province is equal to west pokot county a former district in the larger rift valley province.
@@derrickmutuma7185 Largest landmass is rift valley province, has several tribes, from maasai to turkana, where as north Eastern province is indigenous to Somali tribe and it's the largest single province under one tribe .
That title is Wanting... Please change it
Your thumbnail and Title is a surely annoying and Disrepectful, espclly to the locals if it was about somalis Garissa, Mandera, Moyale, Bosaso ,Garrowe would have been great . Kisumu was and has always been great before them.
Next is Nakuru A.K.A Las Vegas
AKA Nax vegas
Nax
Clearly you know nothing about this town.
💯😊👋
This Kenyan with new clothes he doesn’t know to advertise and generate his people to Merchandise.
He is failing
Please advertise cheaper when customer come sell it negotiable .👍👍👍👍👍
We from North Sudan 🇸🇩 focus on customer but I see Kenyan focus on profits.
Simple question, if no customers where do you going to get profits?????
Video sponsored by Somalis😂.
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At least 20-25+ million Nilotic Luo spread out at least 9 territories .
Luo-Suba, Luo proper Kenya(OBAMA, LUPITA NYONGO, first Black lawyer East Africa Argwings Kodhek ,Nationalists Tom Mboya,VP Oginga Odinga) .
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Uganda Luo-Acholi (Actress "Woman King" SHEILA ATIM, Presidents Gen Tito Okello ,Army Commander Gen Bazillio Olara Okello, Airforce Commander Alfred Otto, LRA rebels against Yoweri Museveni , JOSEPH KONY, Alice Auma Lakwena, Okot Odhiambo etc) .
Uganda Luo-Langi(President Milton Obote, Army Chief Gen David Oyite Ojok, Gen Smith Acak Opon, John Okello liberated black Zanzibaris from Arab rule hence Tanganyika + Zanzibar=Tanzania) .
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Tanzania Nilotic Maasai population 500K-1million .
Kenya Nilotic Maasai population 1-1.5million .
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Nilotic Luo of Kenya population 5-6million .
Nilotic Luo-Alur of DRC Congo and Uganda 8 million across North Eastern Congo/North Western Uganda . Millions other territories etc .
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Good content
Even kikuyus are there it's just samali a Kenyan tribe
Madam kupata mkikuyu Kisumu ni ngumu .....labda iko but sijai ona😂😂
They had businesses in Kisumu but most of them left after PEV ya 2007
Honestly this is some kind of dumb title, primitive and more so racially divisive!! Do you mean kisumu wasn't thriving before those bussines???
My exact sentiments. Such videos fuel the idea that Kisumu or Nairobi or Kenya wasn't thriving before Somalis. The thriving Kenyan towns are the reason Somalis are going there. Otherwise why are they not going to underdeveloped and not so thriving towns of other countries in East Africa. Kisumu was thriving before them and it is juvenile to think that Somalis have made it what it is.
People should desist from creating such kind of content or titles. They are a bit more divisive and unfounded.
@@derrickmutuma7185
I am a Rwandan Tutsi from the diaspora, but my wife is from the Kenyan Somali Ajuran clan. Cushitic groups, like the Somalis, Borana, and Rendille, have been in what is today modern-day Kenya far longer than other groups such as the Kikuyu, Meru, and Kamba, who are not native to this part of Africa. Somalis and Oroos are essentially the indigenous peoples of the entire Horn and Eastern Africa. Cushites arrived first, followed by Nilotes through the Rift Valley, and thousands of years later, the Bantus expanded from their homelands in Central and West Africa.
Cushitic peoples have always been present in what we call today's Kenya for around 7,000 years, grazing their cattle and camels, migrating, and moving back and forth over millennia. They were displaced during British East Africa, and now their modern descendants, the Somalis, are doing business throughout East Africa. The ancestral homeland of the Southern Cushites stretches all the way to their language-shifted Cushitic cousins, the Ugandan Bahima, as well as to us Tutsis in Rwanda, Eastern DRC, Burundi, and Kagera in Tanzania.
@@PierreJJ. All this crp is what your wife told you. I have historical records to show that Somalis migrated from Northern Somalia to Southern Somalia and then into Kenya where they met the Galla (Oromo) and marginalized. They then attempted to do the same with Bantus by trying to push them further away from River Tana and failed. Bantus pushed them back. That's the current situation. Bantus on the Southern side of the river and Somalis on the North. I have books written on the same. Next time ask for facts and don't pretend to know what goes on in Kenya.
Also, if Cushites were first, then why didn't they occupy Kenyan Highlands that are fertile and have plenty of water for livestock. Why do they live in the desert where there is scarcity. Don't believe the falsehoods you hear out there. Considering that cushites are polygamous and have many kids, how comes bantus in Kenya were 50 times the population of cushites 100 yrs ago? Bantus are still more today. How comes the bantus fought for the country's independence and have been leading it. How comes they had kingdoms in the same land from way before? Do you know the theory of bantu migration is false and was only first documented by a white man in the last 50 yrs? It was theorized. A hypothesis and not actually true. Stop listening to the pet stories shared by your wife and only then you will know the truth.
Wacheni ukabila.There are somali kenyans and they are hard working people. Do not associate the refugees to the origial kenya somalis. What if somali's have business? Why would one not want good business in their community. Luo's are wonderful people and they would like their economy also to prosper and who cares if Somalis have business there. They are part of the society. Stop with the tribalism. Let kenyans be Kenyas. Do not start the kikuyu thing of making the somalis the enemy. They are not. They are great business minded people. Everyone is a human regardless of their ethnic background.