Joyce Nyairo

Research : The Arts. The Politics of Culture. The Culture of Politics.

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

These are tricky times but your voice does not need company.
If you want to resist don’t burn energy recruiting choirs from those whose ambition drowns out their conscience.
No one should silence those who speak.
Equally, critics must not harangue those who will choose silence.

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@Wordslinger__ @MarionOuma Asante sana🙌🏾

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@MarionOuma Shukran🙌🏾

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

🎾I feel the weight of history, and I do not know whether it will fire Ben’s pistons or whether it will sit like cement in his boots.
My prayer is that Ben’s tennis pedigree, ancestral instinct and knowledge from dad and mum plus his skills, will lead him to an outstanding win!🤞🏾

[dennis @donono]

@jnyairo Do you think Ben has a chance?

[Mari Ouma @MarionOuma]

The Researcher The research

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@wmnjoya And yet the history books were rewritten to make it clear that Krapf and Rebmann did not discover anything, they were just the first white men to see some things.

Isn’t it amazing how those colonial frames persist?

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@Wordslinger__ @wmnjoya Thank you.
This waking up and saying anything practice will cost us. Deeply.

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

@jnyairo @wmnjoya This list is long. Just Kenyans. If we expand to other Black and African scholars, this list is robust.

We have a moral and intellectual duty when we switch on our ring lights and put mics in front of us, to produce serious, credible knowledge, not be doing shit for clicks.

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

literally and metaphorically..

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

If you are looking for a story told from and about the heart, literally and metaphorically, Dr. David Silverstein’s memoir is it.
Very few of us can peer inwards publicly to reveal the untidy bits of our lives, and own up to the ways in which we have failed others.
In this…🧵

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

RIP Dr. David Silverstein, you wrote the most soul-baring Kenyan memoirs that I have read. A story told from and about the heart….🙏🏿

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

Former President Daniel Moi’s physician, David Silverstein, dies, family confirms; he helped establish KNH’s first cardiac laboratory.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Mentorship speaking needs to be banned from schools. It ruins the perspective of our young people. It makes them think words and self-encouragement are a substitute for work. It needs to be uprooted from the education system.

Learning history and literature should be enough.

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@femmesis Would have been nice but Tiafoe wilted. I dunno why. And it was clear from the second set that Shelton was harvesting from tennis pedigree: matchless instinct and knowledge.
Really need him to beat Zverev on Sunday.

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

Hey, tennis in the tropics people, are we turning in now so we wake up for Tiafoe vs Shelton🎾at 2am ?
Or do we really want to transnight through the boredom of Zverev first?🫩

Come on, Karen Khachanov, save us!🤞🏾

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@ElNickMagnifico Shelton has the benefit of being tennis pedigree. Comes to this game with ancestral instinct and knowledge.

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@donono 🙌🏾

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@gerti19174 And my joy when Tiafoe beats him to that trophy will be ancestral!🤩

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@moraamageto74 Oh!!!!
You were wise to protect your heart.
I was just there at 5am discombobulating the way I used to disintegrate with Andy Murray. 😵‍💫🫨😹Aiii tennis love us like no other!!

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

Imagine getting your heart broken by tennis at 6:10am!
What am I supposed to do with the rest of this💔🎾 day??🥲

(I have realized that for Coco to win I need to go to sleep or stay asleep😹)!

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

So broadbased clowns have been thrown under the bus as a way to put out the fire of that continental image-massaging contract that created the xenophobia sideshow?

Our necks will sit like that of the Poltergeist kid by time they are done with distractions as campaign strategy😵‍💫

[Moina Spooner @Samooner]

What’s being done to protect Nairobians from the heavy rains? Nobody should be dying in their cars during El Niño.

[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

@iamverahokeyo 🤗