Augustus

Always say less than necessary Robert Greene

[Naval @naval]

Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.

Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.

Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society.

Make these habits. Say no to everything else.

Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.

Relax. Victory is assured.

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

you need a certain level of ruthlessness to succeed in life.

[Alfred ‘The Great’ II @d_black_messiah]

Let me educate you slowly, so nothing is lost in translation.

You said Europe was rich before colonisation. Rich by what standard? The same Europe that was crawling through the Dark Ages? Illiterate, plague-ridden, eating off dirt floors, while Timbuktu was running a university that enrolled 25,000 students?

Let’s talk about what “rich” means.

While Europe was in intellectual darkness, the Moors (Africans and Arabs from North Africa), crossed into Iberia in 711 AD and civilised them. They brought algebra, astronomy, medicine, architecture, philosophy. The University of Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco, founded in 859 AD, is the oldest continuously operating university on earth. Not Oxford, not Cambridge, but Africa!

When European scholars wanted to learn, they went to Cordoba, a city the Moors built, where the library held 400,000 volumes at a time when the largest library in Christian Europe had maybe 400 books.

Four hundred books!

The Greeks you love to quote, Pythagoras, Thales, Solon, Plato, all travelled to Egypt to study. Herodotus documented it, Diodorus Siculus documented it, even Aristotle acknowledged it. The mystery schools of Egypt were the intellectual foundation of what Europe later called “Western civilisation.” Greece didn’t invent wisdom, they imported it from us.

And before any of that,

Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, Great Zimbabwe, Kush, Axum, Carthage, the Kingdom of Benin, whose bronze casting in the 13th century was so precise that when Europeans first saw the Benin Bronzes, they refused to believe Africans made them. They invented a mythical lost civilisation to explain it. Because the alternative, that we were brilliant, broke their entire narrative.

Now here is what your argument conveniently omits.

When Europe arrived, they didn’t meet savages. They met civilisations. So they did what colonisers do, they destroyed the evidence.

The Great Library of Mali in Timbuktu, Sankore University, housed between 700,000 and 1 million manuscripts covering mathematics, astronomy, medicine, law, and theology. French colonial forces and subsequent chaos burned, looted, and scattered what centuries had built. Scholars are still recovering manuscripts from the sand.

The Benin Bronzes (3,000 to 5,000 masterworks) were seized by British forces in the Punitive Expedition of 1897. Stolen, carted to London, sold to museums across Europe. Some are only now being returned, 130 years later, after the world shamed them enough.

The Alexandria Library? Burned.

Carthage? Rome didn’t just defeat it. They salted the earth, they wanted no memory of it.

The Museum of Cairo, Nubian sites, burial monuments… looted systematically, catalogued in European museums, repackaged as their discovery of our heritage.

And Timbuktu’s Ahmad Baba Institute, one of the greatest repositories of African intellectual heritage, the jihadists who attacked it in 2012 were themselves downstream of the chaos that colonial border-drawing and resource extraction created.

This is not clout chasing , this is accounting.

A man burns your house down, takes your furniture, and then mocks you for being homeless. That is not a victimhood mindset.

You want us to “fix our shithole countries”? We are. But let’s be honest about who broke them. The Berlin Conference of 1884, where Europeans sat in a room and divided a continent they did not own, splitting ethnic groups, merging enemies, designing dysfunction… that was not ancient history. The grandparents of people alive today were born into that world.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

" Stop Glorifying Public servants they are not Waheshimiwa but your servants "- Senator Okiya Omutatah!

[Yoko @Kibet_bull]

KTN visited Nithi and they’re reporting that it’s a tragedy awaiting.

Ruto has mentioned this bridge almost 10 times.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is exactly how it’s supposed to be.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

Kenyans are being asked to pay more taxes through the Finance Bill 2026, yet the 2026/27 Budget hides KSh 101.37 billion under a vague item called “Other Operating Expenses.” No programme. No purpose. No accountability.

Before taxing Kenyans another shilling, Parliament must clean up the budget. We cannot finance opacity with taxpayers’ sweat.
See attached
#StopBudgetedCorruption
https://t.co/YI18RIv1nC

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

KTN News decided to bless Ruto with a very good piece of his consistency in telling “alternative facts” and “Six months” promises.

The Gallery of Ruto lies it is. Wapi salute na makofi.

[Eric @amerix]

Another comes here to tell us,

"Africa is our business,"

But when an important African business was happening on African soil, he was in Europe, eating lasagna like Khlestakov, the deceitful character in the play The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol.

Liars!

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Gikomba fire is now an annual event

[Augustus @AugustusJnr82]

@dumbtwttt My hero

[Augustus @AugustusJnr82]

@BoxingEnth His mentor was equally The Best.

[Augustus @AugustusJnr82]

@Waraho_ @Lightcasttvke That ref is a boxer himself you are clueless plus bonus he's highly trained. End of quote

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

US Army Special Forces gear locker.

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

“Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema. The human mind must be creative, must be active.”

- Lee Kuan Yew

[Augustus @AugustusJnr82]

@baroswahjr We are packing our bags Mexico,here we come

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

Ndindi Nyoro is one of the most hypocritical figures in Kenyan politics!! The only reason this statement exists is because Kenyans saw right past the BS.

What we are witnessing here is HYPOCRISY and STUPIDITY of the highest order. You cannot spend years cultivating the image of an alternative voice, positioning yourself as the intellectual conscience of government, then disappear when the moment of accountability arrives.

And then return with a carefully crafted statement about humility, patriotism and service.

We are being asked to believe that there was something more important than one of the most consequential votes affecting the lives of millions of Kenyans. There wasn’t.

Nothing was more important than that vote.

Absolutely nothing. Kwenda uko🚶🏿‍♀️WANTAM!!

[Author Sakwah Ongoma @CSakwah]

This house design has a permanent residence in my mind. It is a dream.