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Are kenyans able to handle the current ramphant corruption crisis in various institutions with malicious lagislatures in power

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Answer #1

They have no choice… most of africa is horribly corrupt, and the people have little choice about it…

Answer #2

I’ve worked in neighbouring Tanazania, as well as in Nepal (where corruption is still rampant), and on that basis I’d say:

The average person in such countries is amazingly adaptable and self-reliant.

Especialy in the countryside, where there’s often little contact at all with the central authorities, but also in the cities. In Tanzania, for example, everyone grew their own little plots of sweet corn (on street corners, roundabout, wherever there was a scrap of land) and there were chickens in apartment blocks, even high-rise ones. And everyone had a family network to fall back on.

The problems are very big in those countries, I’d be the first to admit - but the common people possess a strength and a sense of family/group solidarity that you don’t find in the West today.