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Nature lover. Believer in justice for all. Passionate about trauma work. Special needs advocate. #OneAfrica *Retweets are not endorsements.

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

Kuna fundi niliita atengeneze duck coop I want to keep a few ducks . This guy did not use a single nail ,he used a screws through out . He told me it was easier to undo a mistake than with nails . He also told me he can work without waking the neighbors and true to his word there was no loud banging.
This guy is 25 years old ,he charged for the entire project , was done within 5 hours . This is why I love young people . Kama ningeita millenial wangekuja hapa na nyundo walipishe per day wakae 3 days huku wakisumbua watu na kelele.

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

We constantly romanticise places like Singapore as if their order stems from an inherent cultural virtue that other nations simply lack. We treat their success like an ethnic personality trait. We do the same with other transformative stories from Asia.

The reality is that Singapore in the 1960s was chaotic. There was rampant spitting, open dumping, violent gangsterism & reckless littering. Lee Kuan Yew did not inherit a pristine society.

He inherited the kind of human chaos you can find in any city in Nigeria. In the early days of high-rise public housing, people were literally urinating in the elevators on a daily basis.

​It sounds trivial, but look at how the state responded. They did not just give moral lectures on national television. They did not hope that the "goodness" of the citizens would prevail. They installed actual Urine Detection Devices in the lifts. The moment the sensor detected ammonia, it slammed the doors shut, rang a siren, & trapped the offender until the police arrived.

Every single clean street & orderly queue in Singapore was manufactured through strict laws, relentless policing and deliberate social architecture. They shaped the environment so thoroughly that good behaviour became the only rational choice.

[Julliet Njeri 🇰🇪 @JullietNjeri]

One more reason to fix Kenya..
You cannot overstay in your motherland.
You can build community ties & commercial projects without worrying that you can lose it all in an instant.
No petty crime will have you kicked out - you'll be rehabilitated and still be a citizen.
Even these unconstitutional "renewable" IDs cannot take your citizenship away.
Let's fix Kenya. It's the only home we truly have...

[Nyanje wa Nyanje @nyanjewanyanje]

This fake alcohol thing is really getting me scared.

The last time I was in Nairobi we went to the usual place in Westlands to finish the night after Gondwana and I could hardly live for the the next 2 days. I had my flight and was so tired the whole way.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Every Kenyan parent considering their children's higher education needs to know this:

If your child pursues higher education in a different country, Kenya will never stop punishing your child for it. Kenya will never allow your child to work in the area of their training. I've seen someone with a MA in Kiswahili from University of Dar, no less, being told she can never get a TSC number. That's Kenya.

So yes, you'll hear civil servants praising foreign education as "world class," and harassing Kenyan universities to uphold the standards of Oxford, but they will punish you for daring to go there yourselves and get that education. You're a nobody, you're just a native. You're not supposed to have ambitions beyond what DO John Ainsworth imagined for you. The way the settlers couldn't stand the idea of Africans going to school, is the same way civil servants see education in Kenya. They decide what is good for you. If bad imitations of Norwegian education are what they think you need, that's exactly what you'll get.

So yes, they are going to defund Kenyan public universities and tell you to go to Str-thmore instead, but dare you take that seriously and seek education in TZ, Rwanda or Uganda, let alone Europe or America. You will return to grief and lamentation. Doors will be shut, one after another. You will come back with a PhD in engineering and the best you can do is motivational speaking.

This is not different from colonial days. In "Not yet Uhuru," Jaramogi says that British colonial officers used to arrest Kenyans at the port and jail them if they dared to pursue scholarships in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile the settlers were fighting tooth and nail for Royal Technical College to remain a TVET and never become a university, let alone one for Africans to attend.

But I'm saying higher education abroad: even if you try here, you will get grief. Matiang'i was particularly vicious about it. He said that if you don't get a C+ in KCSE, you should never, ever, see a university classroom, even if you do 10 diplomas and have work experience. He threatened to withdraw the degrees of those who took the long route.

Our education problem isn't curriculum. It's not the job market. It's British snobbery and class consciousness. It's hostility to knowledge. Our politicians and civil servants are steeped in the British "gentleman" model of public education, which was brought here. And that model hates both skills and knowledge. Period.

That mindset prefers fantasies like "the advantages and disadvantages of British colonialism in Africa." And this anti-intellectualism makes going to school even more desirable because the more we are denied education, the more we sacrifice in our savings and resources to get it. Human beings cannot live without understanding their environment. But for seeking that knowledge, you will be punished. Severely. @scherargei will write a bill reducing medical workers to hospital butlers and elevating police officers to medical practitioners.

@NoCountryHere ametupatia suluhisho.

[Dr Githinji Gitahi, MBS @daktari1]

Health starts long before anyone enters a clinic.

When people cannot safely walk, cycle, or use public transport, cities limit everyday opportunities for health.

Addis Ababa, like Kigali, reminds us: build livable cities, build healthier futures.

Could you walk or cycle to work safely today?

@MekdesDaba @WHOAFRO @AfricaCDC

[Serabi @ExecChefKabura]

Kwani what’s happening siku hizi? What’s the problem? Are the drinks counterfeit? Are people being spiked? Are people just suffering adverse reactions to whatever they are using? This is like the 3rd content creator I have read of dying after a night out…

Kwani rada? 😳😳

[Richkidd wizzy @RichkiddWizzy]

These two criminals just stole a phone from a lady along Thika road near Muthaiga, We have tried to follow them but they have escaped. If anyone has any information about this thugs please reach out to me, I'll pay 50, 000 for any information that leads to their arrest.

[Skeptic🇰🇪 @jobbrio01]

It's like I understand her, but then I don't. Congolese Kiswahili sounds funny😂

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

The smartest people I know eventually became fascinated by simple shit again. Trees. Breakfast. Music. Sun through the window. Maybe wisdom circles back to childhood.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

The World Bank has banned Webmasters Kenya Ltd and its CEO James Ayugi from its projects for at least five years over fraud and failure to provide documents requested during an audit.

Webmasters Kenya is the company linked to the eCitizen tender.

[Linus Kaikai @LinusKaikai]

BUT WHY are some Matatus permitted to blind other road users with such bright floodlights or spotlights placed above their windscreens? WHY @ntsa_kenya and @NPSOfficial_KE ?

[Billionaire Child of God @Billionair1w]

An African being profiled in an African country is the worst feeling anyone can experience.

Thr comment section of this vid confirmed it all,so sad,since when did Africans start treating each other this way.

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Martha Karua: We call on the ICC prosecutor to closely monitor developments in Kenya and assess whether credible information warrants an examination. Should evidence emerge of widespread or systematic attacks against civilians being organized, financed, directed or tolerated by those in authority, we urge the prosecutor to investigate President Ruto, a former ICC inductee, and review the status of previous charges against him

[blue @bluewmist]

You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.

[Ndung'u Mburu @Ndunguh]

@sunnysunwords And this should apply for all county governments and institutions. Toilets are a measure of civilization.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Zimbabwe’s worst transport disaster in modern history, which occurred on Lake Kariba, continues to claim more lives.

The death toll has now risen to 94, while 77 people were rescued. By today’s confirmed figures, the vessel was carrying at least 171 people or more, yet it was licensed to carry only 90.
It was overloaded by at least 81 people as of today’s numbers, almost twice its permitted capacity.

Even more disturbing is that the vessel was in a terrible state and required maintenance costing US$40,000. The government which owned the vessel was warned, but it ignored the warning and failed to carry out the necessary repairs.

This was not simply an accident. It was a preventable catastrophe caused by gross negligence, a disregard for public safety and a failure of leadership at many levels.

This is one of the darkest days in Zimbabwe’s history and the country’s deadliest transport disaster of modern times. Ninety-four people are dead and still counting, families have been shattered, and the nation deserves more than condolences and empty speeches.

Those who ignored the warnings and allowed an unfit, dangerously overloaded vessel to operate must be identified and held accountable. Zimbabweans cannot continue dying because those entrusted with protecting public safety treat human life as disposable.

[Shoba Gatimu @shobanes]

@KWSKenya maneno ya elephants kukufa na Cyanide poisoning in a national park ilifika wapi? Hatujasahau.

[¥ @laylanaiim]

Cut off anybody who consistently shows envy, resentment, jealousy, insecurity, or turns everything into a competition with you. Those feelings rarely stay harmless for long.

[Alfayaz 11 @Alfayaz11]

Our National Pride, JKIA, where it depends on your luck whether even an escalator is working. The toilets stink from a mile away, so you really don’t need a sign pointing you towards the washrooms. The immigration counters look more like roadside vibandas, while the systems move at a pace that tests your patience.

Anyway, welcome to Kenya through our main international gateway. The first impression of our beautiful country. 🇰🇪

We need to better, let us fix our airport instead of public servants palatial homes.