People when pressed and in survival mode, will bring out brightness and genius to overcome issues, given all the troubles it will be really slow process, but when someone will raise and do something good, pride will come out, sense of community will bring people together, and this will help the project be successful, maybe not facebook successful (but it could be, i believe times are still too young now), but enough to live and make a difference.
In America, and Europe, people have it easy, so it's also easy to start a company and do something, people don't really know what means hard work and fight for surviving, so in the end most of the startups seen as successful fail; while in other less fortunate countries (in Europe too) people have it hard, so when a company is able to survive it will be way stronger, and even if it don't make the same money of the failed american company, it is successful as the people working in it will be able to live, and make a difference for someone in need.
Anyway to stay on the original question: i don't know what have said the government, and i can't really say much about as i'm pretty ignorant about Kenya and Africa in general, and besides i've never been there.
But i know people, and i've seen in many occasions the brightness and will needed to succeed, those people simply didn't knew their capabilities and where still locked in the mindset of being nobody and so untitled to make a difference not only for themselves but for everyone.
For many social, and economical reasons i believe a local startup will have more chances to become successful than a western one, but that seems obvious ...
If you are thinking/planning a system or efforts to encourage and support the growth of local startups, be aware that if that system will be truly made with capitalistic goals instead of economical development it will ruin and eat up everything making the country in worst state than before, and it will make the good minds flee the country, and that's history, past and modern ...
I don't know about the Go part, but on the db side i have no doubt: go with PostgreSQL.
I advise you in ANY case to read about both ... more ... and more in depth.
Mongo is nice but i can't see an use for it as a proper DB, it is useful from other perspectives (similar argument to why chose nodejs or not), but given the position i assume you are in, as single man army, you need to know what you are doing, and skipping the data part is a big mistake, you have to know what is your data and how to structure it, you can't let your models define it ... or you could, and grant yourself maintenance work forever ...
PostgreSQL on the other hand is one of the best, if not the best database, and if you are worrying about performance, you are worrying about the wrong things, and from the wrong angle, and still Postgre have amazing performance if you know what you are doing.
I would consider using mongo for only two reasons: just for fun, or because i need to ship in zero time, and in the latter i would think twice and go with Postgre anyway ...
PS. I might have been a bit trolly on the mongo side, but seriously give Postgres a shot, every minute you spend on it is worth more than the specific knowledge you gain!
from simple peripherals suggestions (keyboards with different switches, mouses, headphones, etc) to a more complex configurator based on games genre, and an "upgrade" picker based on your current setup ... this way you keep your current maintenance efforts but amplify you marketable value.
People when pressed and in survival mode, will bring out brightness and genius to overcome issues, given all the troubles it will be really slow process, but when someone will raise and do something good, pride will come out, sense of community will bring people together, and this will help the project be successful, maybe not facebook successful (but it could be, i believe times are still too young now), but enough to live and make a difference.
In America, and Europe, people have it easy, so it's also easy to start a company and do something, people don't really know what means hard work and fight for surviving, so in the end most of the startups seen as successful fail; while in other less fortunate countries (in Europe too) people have it hard, so when a company is able to survive it will be way stronger, and even if it don't make the same money of the failed american company, it is successful as the people working in it will be able to live, and make a difference for someone in need.
Anyway to stay on the original question: i don't know what have said the government, and i can't really say much about as i'm pretty ignorant about Kenya and Africa in general, and besides i've never been there. But i know people, and i've seen in many occasions the brightness and will needed to succeed, those people simply didn't knew their capabilities and where still locked in the mindset of being nobody and so untitled to make a difference not only for themselves but for everyone.
I would like to continue this dialog ...