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[𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐒.🧸🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @chelsznn]

To get any book you want on the internet, type the name of the book followed by doctype:pdf

E.g The Alchemist doctype:pdf

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

Affordable housing cannot become a cover for land grabbing.

The Auditor General has flagged projects built on public and community land without proper ownership records, legal processes, or public participation. Kenyans deserve answers.

I have formally demanded a Senate inquiry. Public land is not for plunder. Accountability must come before construction. #StopLandGrabbing #ReKe

[The Elephant @theelephantinfo]

In Education for Self-Reliance, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere is categorical that colonial education is unsuitable for a post-independent populace because the curriculum and educational infrastructure are designed to create a cadre of entitled individuals obsessed with individual achievements rather than communal cooperation. The well-educated recipients of colonial education are more attuned to profit-making careers and are least committed to service provision. They create hierarchies, promote inequality, and their obsession with book knowledge leads to elitism and to despising non-academic careers and those with traditional indigenous knowledge systems.
Analysis: https://t.co/EjE4zgAG95

@ObyObyerodhyamb @wmnjoya @YusufSerunkuma @m_ogada @tony_mochama @ReginaldOduor @ArkAnudDinYaSin @WMutunga @jnyairo @NativeLandgrab @DavidNdii @KiamaKaara @jkobuthi @realoyungapala @johngithongo #IWentToAlliance #TheElephant #EliteMediocrity #Governance

[Wanjira Wanjiru🇰🇪🇵🇸 @wanjirunjira]

We have a new book documenting our Kenyan struggle from Mau Mau to #RutoMustGo. We shall be Launching the book on 12th,( Mathare) on 14th(Cheche) and 18th June TBC.
If you were on the #RejectFinanceBill maandamanos, you need to read this! #RutoMustGo

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

“Excessive dancing invites disorder and demons.”

“For Her Majesty’s Government, keep the natives orderly.”

Colonial rule was not just about controlling land and labour. It was about controlling culture, expression, assembly, and identity.

The language sounds ridiculous today. The mentality should concern us even more.
#DecoloniseGovernance #ReKe #PeoplePower

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Between 1961 and 1962, the first generation of African civil servants was taken to the colonial training school in Oxbridge where British colonial officers were trained. When they returned before independence, they were supposed to understudy with the colonial DOs and DCs whom they were going to replace. In other words, the civil service we got was not only colonial, but thoroughly prepped to be that way by independence.

Then at independence, the sectors of the army, police, agriculture and education remained under wazungu. The Nairobi police commissioner was in office till the early 70s. The judiciary was still under them in my living memory, thanks to Sir Charles Njonjo of Kabeteshire.

And the African civil servants didn't mind. They said it was important until Africans are "qualified" to take over. Some of those wazungu who were so called "qualified" hadn't even been to school. Ian Henderson, the police officer who hunted down Kimathi, remained in the police, IN NYERI, to make matters worse. Of course, Kenyans said that was unacceptable, but Jomo was afraid to deport him because he didn't want to catch the wrath of the British civil servants, who promised him that they would all resign (like that wouldn't have been a good thing). Jaramogi ordered the deportation on Jomo's behalf, then Kenyatta and the rest of the cabinet pretended to be outraged that Jaramogi hadn't consulted them.

The years between 1957 and 1966 entrenched in Kenya a civil service that cannot but sing what the west tells it to.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

I'm reading about how the British, in the early 1900s, used to confiscate livestock in Turkana numbering 5,000, up to 16,000. And then when the Samburu raided the Turkana for 300 heads of cattle, the British fined them. Yani, it was ok for the British to steal cattle but not for other Africans to conduct cattle raids. Of course, the math wasn't mathing.

The Turkana successfully staged a tax boycott against the colonialists, until the colonialists had to withdraw the tax. But in 1915, the British confiscated a staggering 130,000 head of cattle from the Turkana and killed over 400 warriors.

Towards north eastern, the British used to confiscate livestock of Kenyan Somalis so that Europeans breeds would dominate the region and Somalis would be rendered poor due to loss of livestock.

The British hated pastoralism (@m_ogada often reminds us that the wazungu and GoK still do) because it made the communities difficult to control, to reduce to forced labor and extract taxes from. So they attacked their livelihoods. And they brought rinderpest.

Northern Kenya was governed as "closed districts." People from those regions were not allowed to leave without permission from the colonialists. The act was repealed in guess when? 1997. Yes.

And then I remembered Huduma Namba and SHA in which the government proposed means testing, where people's ID cards and SHA contributions included data on the livestock they owned.

What I feel reading this is a mixture of anger and horror at that level of looting, surely. And anger that GoK can still be thinking like this in the 21st century. And that this information is not readily accessible. Eesh.

https://t.co/MZHEpMiPfO

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Loolel Kookoi: The story of the great Turkana warrior
https://t.co/Oq2MxtugJH

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Knowing what I know now about history and geopolitics, I am amazed at the audacity of Jaramogi and Kaggia. They really tried to undo the damage of colonialism. They were operating in a hostile environment, and that hostility has gone nowhere. It's in the water we drink.

[Mak Mansa @mansaplus]

An excerpt from The Big Chiefs by Meja Mwangi. Published in 2008, giving a clear depiction of the current state of affairs in Kenya.

[Paul Muite SC @Paul_Muite]

People MUST resist Freehold Land being turned into Leasehold and oppressive TAXES imposed with the Land being auctioned upon failure to pay the those taxes.Objective is to disposess people of their Lands and turn them into labourers for the new owners.We have a CRIMINAL regime

[Juliani.ke 🇰🇪 @JulianiKenya]

They see you as numbers not a person with dreams, aspirations, knowledge and ideology.

They see tribal lines not a people with identity, place in the global conversation.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

When you hear politicians suddenly uniting to tell you who the “enemy” is, pause and ask yourself one question:

Who benefits when citizens are divided and distracted?

Too often, the political class closes ranks not to defend the people, but to defend the system that feeds them. They want Kenyans fighting each other while corruption, impunity, unemployment, and economic injustice continue unchecked.

The moment someone begins questioning the structure of exploitation, the wardens of the prison quickly unite and point at a new “enemy” to keep the prisoners distracted.

Kenyans must stop worshipping political camps and start defending principles. Accountability is not tribal. Justice is not regional. Truth is not partisan.

The real struggle is not between ordinary citizens. The real struggle is between a corrupt system and the people paying the price for it every day.

[ALM CONSTRUCTION LTD @ALM_Kenya]

@glennotiende Some people make millions, other people make memes.. for more memes we will call you.

[Prof. Alfred Omenya @aomenya]

I am a Professor of Architecture. I have been a judge for Commonwealth Association of Architects Awards, International Union of Architects Awards, Asia Architecture Awards, AAK-Crown Architecture Awards, etc. Feel free to ignore my opinion. The New State House is plain MEDIOCRE!

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

It is quite satisfying to watch the antelope loudly proclaim its friendship with the leopard. But the entire savanna knows, that this friendship has never existed anywhere but in the mind of the predator searching for a more comfortable way to feed, and that of a prey so foolish it has mistaken the beauty of those spots for something other than the last thing it will ever see.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

[ALM CONSTRUCTION LTD @ALM_Kenya]

Before meets after.

Lounge Revamp.

Lavington, Nairobi.

#Mothersday

[ALM CONSTRUCTION LTD @ALM_Kenya]

To every mother figure , Thank you for shaping generations with love. #MothersDayCelebration

[ALM CONSTRUCTION LTD @ALM_Kenya]

@amerix #RejectFuelPrices