This Country Won't Exist Soon (For Good Reasons)

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[nrbmemes]

Hi toycat. Kenyan living in America here, the corruption in some of the countries in the proposed EAF will prevent it from existing until they get it cleaned up. DRC, South Sudan, Kenya also has corruption issues and there are a lot of people in east africa still living in villages and not paved roads and cities.

[MikatheRaccoon]

I don't see it happening soon because of Congo which is currently in de facto civil war state without fully integrated administrative regions. But without Congo it is possible

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Kenyan flag lore: The flag is based on that of Kenya African National Union (formerly just the Kenya African Union), the political party that led the fight for the independence of Kenya, which in turn their flag was inspired by the Pan-African flag. Upon independence in 1963, the white fimbriation and the shield were added. The color black represents the people of Kenya, red for the bloodshed during the fight for independence, and green for the country's landscape and natural wealth. The white fimbriation was added later to symbolize peace, honesty, purity, and innocence. The shield is a traditional Maasai shield and both it and the spears represent the defense of the values mentioned.

In the Olympics, Kenya is known for having incredible long-distance runners and this is because most Kenyan elite runners hail from the same ethnic groups known as the Kalenjins and the Nandis. They make up ten percent of the nation but bring in a majority of the nation's marathon medals. Most of the Kenyan runners who dominate marathons worldwide train and live in the high-altitude Rift Valley. Iten for example, sits nearly 8, 000 feet above sea level in western Kenya. Training at high altitudes contributes to a running dominance that makes running at lower elevation child’s play. They have a simple diet, good terrain with dirt roads and rolling hills, and the runners of course motivate kids to do it too.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Kenya used to have a dispute with Uganda over Migingo! Migingo is just 2, 000 square meters and back in 2009, 131 people lived there, making it one of the most extremely densely populated islands anywhere! As the island is right by the Kenya-Uganda border, there was a dispute starting in June 2004 when Ugandan marine police pitched a tent on the island and raised the Ugandan flag and that of their police department. A diplomatic row arose in February 2009, when Kenyans living on Migingo were required to purchase special permits from the Ugandan government. Then in March 2009, Kenyan and Ugandan government officials went to the island to listen to the residents with the Ugandans still refusing to lower their flag.

In May 2009, the Ugandan government agreed to lower the flag and changed their position that while the island was Kenyan, they were still concerned about Kenyan fishermen illegally fishing in Ugandan waters. In July 2009, a survey team went there and found that the island is 510 meters (1, 670 feet) east of the Kenya-Uganda border within the lake, confirming that the island is indeed Kenyan.

[qinzayee]

Saying the EAF might exist is like thinking we'll have flying cars by 2025.

[TwoJuan]

i think the EAF is a good idea overall, but the union should be created with the og members that are more stable (in africa) and have more things in common (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi) and they should left out the newest members that would bring a lot of problems and instability to the union like South Sudan (newest country in the world and very unstable) and DR congo (too big and constantly in armed conflict)

[Hudute]

7:00 Mombasa Island is an island again, the colonial railway causeway is being removed as I write this, road and rail bridges are now complete. Hopefully, the waters wont be as disgusting in the future.

[maxsmith]

Mombasa looks like a badly drawn fantasy map. If i saw that in fiction i would probably groan. But it’s actually real. Cool

[LUNE.]

Cant believe Ninja havent paid you for promoting the Ninja Speedi 12-in-1 rapid cooker yet

[Hudute]

As someone who has lived in Kenya: Respectfully hell nah, that federation will not happen anytime soon. Maybe a EU style thing kinda. Youre drinking EAC cool aid there.

[wojtekpolska]

with the border not following the river perfectly, there are two things to consider.

1 - google doesn't define the borders *THAT* precisely, especially in sparsely populated areas, and also im pretty sure google simply doesnt do curved borders, as a technical limitation on the website
2 - borders sometimes follow the river but dont change when the river changes. the river can change its shape, but depending on the treaty, the border might stay behind in the shape that the river was when the border was made.

[Hudute]

9:15 yes, Nairobi traffic be like that, Matatu on the expressway was amazing for the fast travel time.

[OpelsiSq]

This was the hardest brit bait ive ever seen

[Patrick]

“Where can you see lions?”
“Only in east Africa”

[eduardog]

0:15 Guyana isn't going to not exist. Venezuela doesn't want the entirety of Guyana. Worst case is Guyana loses a bit over half of its land, mostly dense forest.

[GazilionPT]

The DRC being "Eastern" it's a bit of a stretch...

[hobog]

6:52 loved exploring Mombasa in Halo 2 and ODST 😂

[Valeryp]

One of the coolest places in Kenya is the ASI base near Malindi.
Italy used it to lauch rockets to space in the 80's using a floating platform, and nowadays they use the ground base to track various equatorial satellites, especially when they get lauched from the ESA base in French Guyana (like the JWST... You might have seen the images of the deployment coming from Malindi 😉)

[nosamgeography]

Now there really won’t be a country in Africa that starts with k

[eduardog]

3:25 Rivers change over time but river borders tend to be surveyed and drawn out and *that* becomes the actual border, not changing with the river. Though there do seem to be some straight lines there, I wonder how those happened.
It would be really interesting to have a river border that actually changes with the river.