ARTICLE ON KENYA.

I came across this article (KENYA GOING UP OR DOWN?) on Kenya from the Economist magazine online edition. I think it has some truth to it as well as some outright lies.

I will just try to make a copy and paste excerpt of the article and below it the link to the article.

Here we go:

.........Swathes of what should be one of the best tourist roads in the country, leading to the Masai Mara reserve, one of Africa's finest game-viewing sites, are barely better than a rock-strewn, muddily rutted farm track—that was once smooth tarmac. The government says it intends to spend $1 billion this year on improvements; at present, the road system is a bad joke.
Scambags galore

Why the mess? The answer is misguided economic policies, mismanagement, poor maintenance, sloppiness, tribalism and corruption. This litany of failings is almost entirely the fault of Kenyans themselves: the politicians they have allowed to rule over them and rip them off; the civil servants and road builders (some of them foreign) who have skimmed off contracts or simply not bothered to do the job; and the dishonesty, venality and fatalism that have gripped society at large.

Corruption took hold of Kenya almost immediately after independence,...........

http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9304146&CFID=5813077&CFTOKEN=32862030