A Certain Amount of Madness Podcast

Podcast dedicated to independent, fact-based analysis and commentary on a diverse range of political and economic issues affecting the African continent.

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🚨 Our New Episode is LIVE! 🚨
Watch it here https://t.co/JWMZ7VYnqy

[Violette @NdukuWambua]

@AMadnessPod This a deeply distressing conversation! The lived experiences are harrowing and outrightly humiliating. The financial landscape needs to be reworked for the dignity, safety and progress of Kenyans.

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250 people interviewed in 12 countries. Asked what they got out of their protests? They either said 'not much' or things got worse. The streets generated power and the usual organized forces cashed in.🎧Listen here: https://t.co/kGQlOyQULn #RejectFuelPrices

[Mumbi. @miss_mumbzk]

In conclusion, give us commuter rail.

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This is a conversation about structural power and what it means to fight for the right to the highest attainable standards of life, as our constitution envisages, when debt is the water you're swimming in. 🎧Listen here: https://t.co/pX2HgaTsTR

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9 out of 10 Kenyan households are in financial distress. Not the country. The household. Your mother. Your neighbor. You!

We need to talk about Kenya's personal debt emergency. #KenyaDebtCrisis #DigitalLendingKE

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The solution isn't only financial literacy for individuals because even informed university students are drowning in debt. We need humane repayment terms, shock protections, and well-resourced regulators that focus on consumer protection.

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Naomi Barasa tells us how the mothers in Korogocho called it 'Devil Worship Money'. Listen to our new episode: Borrowed Lives: Kenya's Personal Debt Emergency! https://t.co/pX2HgaTsTR

#KenyaDebtCrisis #DigitalLendingKE #ACAOM

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New Episode Out! 90% of Kenyan households are in financial distress. Not the country - households. Your neighbor. Your mother. You! Our conversation with
@RadhaUpadhyaya & Naomi Barasa reveals how chronic the personal debt problem is.
https://t.co/pX2HgaTsTR

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We need a more resilient energy system that serves all Kenyans. Nishati ni Mali ya Umma! #RejectFuelPrices #ACAOM

Listen to the full X space linked below. https://t.co/s3z3mmsbXq

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As the nationwide matatu strike continues, let's revisit our X space conversation: Bei ya Mafuta Impenda! The fuel crisis is shorthand for a deeper, systemic cost-of-living and poverty crisis. #RejectFuelPrices

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Our conversation focused on: 1. Treating energy as a public good 2. Prioritising a significant scale up of renewable energy production 3. Developing a wider energy mix that includes nuclear energy to ensure we meet Kenya's immediate and future energy needs.

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The rest of our robust discussion with Wanjira and our other panelists can be found pinned above. Thanks to @wanjirunjira for the amazing contributions to help us understand the broader implications of Kenya's current fuel crisis.

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On Sunday's X Live Space in collaboration with
@KenyaCommsHub, @wanjirunjira helped us place the current fuel crisis into the bigger picture of the cost-of-living crisis in Kenya.

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5. Pan-African solidarity is a necessity to the achivement of Kenyan sovereignty. Neo-colonial control is continental and our resistance to it needs to be done colletively as Africans. For Kenyans, it starts with better leadership through the ballot box.