It is a Bigmachini World

Agriculture has always been dear to me. From a tender age when I planted Tomatoes in a seedbed in our back yard, watching them sprout from the nursery that I had careful prepared. Life of a plant is an interesting thing. From a small tiny seed comes this beautiful plant. Transplanting them later, and watching them grow to maturity. I had forgotten how good that feeling was, I had always had it in me, and I enjoyed bringing new life to this world, plants. We as a nation need to secure food first in order to be able to move forward as a country, until a man’s basic need is fully satisfied, he is bound to poverty, having to work for food. Hence the call to invest in Agriculture, until a man doesn’t have to worry about feeding his family a man’s true potential cannot be seen. We need to break free of this chains poverty, the chains of thinking we can’t produce enough, the chains of seeking aid from the west. Yes our country can produce more than enough, with the right technology, ...

The story begins with two young minds chatting in a Matatu (public means of transport in Kenya). The discussion was based on the fact that power in one thing that is letting this country down. Black outs, high cost of production due to the use of generators etc. Why not come up with a solution, Kenya has a lot of land laying bare, this land is either arid or semi-arid. There lies a great opportunity to produce solar power. Laying along the equator we receive direct sunlight all year round, why not build solar panels and place them in the desert? One mind thought, as a country we have the potential to create this panel, best situated and optimized for our environment. But the other mind believed that, we can’t make that. The best solar panels have to be imported. This not only pissed me off, but also showed how we have been made to believe that we are a consumer continent. When is this going to stop! When are we are as a continent going to stand up and realize that we need ...