Travel Experience to Abuja

Travelling to Nigeria is a 5 hour journey that takes more than 12 hours to do that. That is a problem of underdevelopment. Accessing one another in Africa is so difficult because we have no airline in Uganda (I was the last chairman of Uganda airways sometime back and recommended its closure). The Ethiopian airline we flew took us through Kigali where we stopped for about an hour before continuing to Addis. Ethiopian airways is one of Africa’s biggest airline and Addis as one of Africa’s hops. While Kenya airways flies around Africa, Ethiopian airways has the muscle. It has quietly picked up passengers around Africa distributing them to different countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America. Ethiopian airways has been the most resilient company in Ethiopia. Even the days of the communists rule in the 80s and 90s, the airline was strong at growing. You see huge numbers of people using this airline and you realize the company is making money. As part of its plan, Ethiopia built a terminal that now handles possibly the largest number of people after Johannesburg. While Kenya airways has 28 airplanes, Ethiopian airways has 40 of them. While at the airport 2 things struck me. 1) The Ethiopian president who passed on the other week appears to have been loved and hated at the same time but that is normal. In any society and any situation some people will love you and others will hate you. What I have found however is that those who hate you will do so because they want to be like you and they can’t. Remember that. 2) The other thing that struck me was the fact that success come through good organizations but also a bit of luck. Definitely the Addis airport in terms of managing and its facilities, it is not well organized. This is a common feature of many African organizations. I hate running