Wish people would understand that once primary forest is gone itโs GONE!
Planting trees is fine but secondary forest will take DECADES if not centuries to recover enough to hold the majority of diversity again. โ๐ณ
Protecting forest needs to be a way bigger priority than planting trees!!
Secondary forest corridors are obviously insanely important but the planet needs to band together to keep all the primary tropical rainforest that is left intact! ๐ฟ
When I'm reading Half of a Yellow Sun, I wonder why there aren't Kenyan stories about and around the 2007/2008 Post Election Violence
Nigerians wrote about the Biafra war from here to Timbuktu
Or these stories exist and I've not discovered them - put me on then
If you earn 100,000 per month, appx 30,000 goes to the Government of kenya
Youโre left with 70,000, you pay a further 16% on all the purchases you make
But then you are still forced to pay for education, healthcare etc out of pocket
So what is GoK for? Ni ya nini?
Hey guys, if you have any mobility aids like crutches and joint support that youโre not using I have met a few people in need. Please rt my donors could be on your tl.
Every time I remember the DISK we used to receive for speaking Kiswahili or mother tongue, I understand more clearly, as an adult, just how deeply colonialism was embedded in our upbringing, and how many of its scars we still carry.
We were being punished for speaking our own language. Shamed for expressing our own identity. And it was not merely a slap on the wrist. We were beaten, heavily, for something that should never have been considered wrong in the first place.
Imagine being taught to associate your own language with punishment and humiliation, while being conditioned to believe that another language made you more intelligent, more civilised or more worthy.
That is how colonialism works. It does not only conquer land. It colonises the mind, reshapes identity and teaches you to be ashamed of yourself.
And sometimes, the most painful part is realising how much of that conditioning survived long after the colonisers left.
Koikai died calling this government out to address the gaps in endometriosis treatment. All they did was issue some empty words of condolence.
Natalie is doing the same on behalf of the millions of girls and women going through the same thing. @MOH_Kenya what are you doing to help. That girl Natalie is strong..My prayers are with her.
Mukimo is a true culinary masterpiece.
The composition, texture, construction of mukimo is something gastronomists take years to perfect
Below is my evidence: