A_Nya

Existing, Striving, Thriving

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@pigafirimbi @MichaelSameri Yep! The reddest flags, even on Ruto’s image… like brah… who’s that? Not that we care 😒 but they don’t even respect themselves. The audacity to share this with confidence/callousness. The incompetence is breathtaking 🙄

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@SethOlale Are you a gutter press blogger? This isn’t the story here. What a waste. Priorities are utter garbage.

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@ntvkenya @jamessmat Do we actually have a functioning police service??? The Judiciary?? Investigations teams?? This is infuriating and terrifying, and incredibly disturbing. Sad… It shouldn’t happen. Why does justice evade all manner of victims in this country 😢

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@ntvkenya @jamessmat What a dumb take! Absolving the government & authorities of responsibility, as if an “unbroken” family alone will prevent this violence. Fool! As a scholar 🚮 Kwani it’s the suffering Olympics??? Men are being killed too.. 😡 we’re taking about VICTIMS!! Kids!! Idiotic thinking.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

If you ask members of parliament in my country what they have achieved over their last mandate, they will tell you they organised a football tournament in their constituency. They distributed backpacks and school supplies to students. One member of parliament in Togo built a website to catalogue his achievements. Among them: donating first aid kits to the local hospital. Getting two young people from his community a job. Two!
These are the accomplishments a legislator presents to justify his mandate, his salary, his immunity, his access to state resources, and his claim on the political future of the people he was elected to represent.

There are no people more deeply confused about their own responsibilities than the members of parliament of our countries. And they have practiced this confusion for so long, and so consistently, that in the countries where elections carry any competitive reality at all, the legislators who refuse to perform this charity theatre simply do not get elected. Because the average citizen has been trained, over decades of managed expectations and deliberately lowered standards, to believe that being a member of parliament is about distributing free things to the community and posting a photograph next to the gesture.

I said it many years ago and I will say it again: a political party is not a wedding party. A party that does not ask you to contribute anything to its survival, but instead spends on you as a member, distributes to you, provides for you, is finding its money somewhere. And wherever that money is coming from, you are not the beneficiary. You are the product being sold for a purpose considerably larger than your backpack.

The politicians understood this long ago. They made sure of it. They have spent decades systematically reducing the role of the legislator to the role of the charity worker, because a population that expects charity from its representatives will never think to demand accountability from them. And a representative who has learned to give charity will never understand that his actual job was never to give anything at all. It was to build the conditions under which nobody needed his donation in the first place.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

In my address titled "The Political Economy of Obedience," delivered last month at the Josef Korbel School of Global Affairs at the University of Denver, I identified five key mechanisms through which African populations have been trained into political compliance. I am sharing a summary here because they explain precisely what we are watching play out in real time every day on this continent.

The first is colonial education. The curriculum inherited from the French, the Brits or the Portugese administration was not designed to produce critical citizens. It was designed to produce a particular kind of political subject. one who understood authority as something to be respected rather than questioned, and who experienced his own political traditions as a source of shame rather than institutional possibility. As I said in Denver, the most effective political prisons are not made of concrete. They are made of curriculum. The Togolese school I attended taught us the genealogy of French kings with more precision than the history of the governance systems that predated French colonial presence on our territory.

The second is the economy of obedience itself. Authoritarian systems endure not primarily through permanent terror but because they structure the relationship between political compliance and material survival so that obedience becomes, for most people most of the time, the rational choice. Access to employment, scholarships, market licenses, import authorizations, health clinic access: none of it politically neutral, all of it conditioned on loyalty. People in these systems do not collaborate with power because they are morally deficient. They collaborate because the scaffolding of their daily lives has been designed to make non-collaboration economically catastrophic.

The third is the family as a site of control. In conditions of economic precarity, the individual who considers a dissident act must calculate not only her own risk but the risk she imposes on her parents, her siblings, her children, her cousins etc. I have watched people of intelligence and moral clarity retreat from political engagement not because they were afraid for themselves but because they could not justify the devastating exposure their activism would bring to their families. The authoritarian state does not need to threaten everyone. It only needs to ensure that the threat to one is visible and comprehensible to all.

The fourth is religion. In many parts of Africa, religious institutions have been deployed, not by their most honest practitioners but by their most politically convenient ones, to transmit a theology of earthly resignation and otherworldly reward that discourages political engagement. The pastoral instruction to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's sits very comfortably with the interests of Caesars who have no intention of rendering anything to anyone. Liberation theology, which in Latin America produced an extraordinary tradition of religiously grounded political resistance, has had a far more contested reception in much of African Christianity and Islam, partly because of the direct entanglement of many religious institutions with state power, which has made spiritual authority and political compliance structurally allied.

The fifth is media. In authoritarian African contexts, state and privately owned media aligned with power do not typically practice crude propaganda. They practice something more subtle and more durable: the selection of what is visible and what is invisible; the framing of social problems as natural phenomena rather than political choices; and the treatment of opposition voices as marginal or foreign-funded. The film industry participates in this discipline in its own way, through the systematic promotion of narratives that depict poverty and wealth as conditions of fate or personal failure, stories in which the distance between the poor and the rich has everything to do with luck, talent or divine favour and nothing to do with power, policy or the deliberate engineering of inequality.

The cumulative effect, over decades, is a population whose political imagination has been narrowed to the point where alternatives are genuinely difficult to conceive, not because the alternatives do not exist, but because the political ecosystem has ensured they remain invisible.

These are the operating manual of authoritarian systems on this continent. And authoritarianism today is not limited to regimes with a known dictator who has held power for decades. It extends equally to regimes that perform a change of leadership through placebo elections conducted every four to five years, producing a new face every eight to ten years while the same system of impunity, patronage and repression remains structurally intact.

I would argue that these are in fact the more dangerous form of authoritarianism because their citizens are deceived into believing they are living under a democracy when they are in reality governed by plutocrats. The citizen under an obvious dictatorship at least knows what he is fighting. The citizen under a rotating plutocracy has been convinced there is nothing to fight at all. He votes, he watches a new face take the oath, and he mistakes the performance of transition for the substance of change. He ends up with no voice, no justice, no agency, and worse, no drive to fight for his own dignity. For one can only fight for liberation after acknowledging one's condition of oppression.

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@citizentvkenya Saying a lot without saying anything. This is appalling - credit for what??? Didn’t address the main issue, tried to play victim, avoided accountability; we don’t want to hear about your ‘president’. You guys can’t do the job, leave it! 🚮 commentary from clueless narcissists!

[Friends of Nairobi National Park @FoNNaPKenya]

This is Nairobi National Park.
The only national park in any capital city in the world. Home to lions, leopards, rhinos, and hundreds of species. A living ecosystem that belongs to every Kenyan.

And right now, construction is tearing through it.

77 acres approved for development. A car park for 1,300 vehicles. A fence that the EIA describes as both 700 metres and 10 kilometres. A project cost that changes from KES 57 million to KES 315 million depending on which page you read.

The park's own Management Plan prohibits development in this zone. NEMA approved it anyway.

Once this habitat is gone, it cannot be restored.

FoNNaP has filed a petition in the Senate and a case in the High Court. But we need the public to know what is happening.

Watch this. Share it. Ask questions.

Tag @kws_kenya @nema_kenya and demand transparency.

#SaveNNP #NationalParkNotCarPark #NairobiNationalPark #Kenya #OurPark #Conservation #NairobiWildlife #ProtectOurParks

[Joan @Itswambu1]

Uyo cs was sports alidhani skating iko kwa ministry of transport

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@BirdsCount26551 @ZeggyNairobi @wambuijoan2024 I can’t tell if you’re stupid or just trying to be contrary. What kind of brain is this? Dumb as a rock. Teach..?? Really? Instinct yako kwanza ni kujustify murder, you’d take a life unnecessarily if you had the chance yourself, you 🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮.

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

When will the board members of Kenyatta National Hospital be arrested? - Sifuna

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@paulinenjoroge Why’s he campaigning instead of working, when so much is NOT working in this country?? This is a new low, smh

[Ziya! @ziyaafrica]

Your MP is one of the most powerful people in your life.

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@Nyandia_G Tested this out using a VPN a few weeks ago, agreed on potential, still has some kinks to work out, but is a good starter/playground. Will try with Mixboard and see what’s different. If your brand doesn’t really exist yet, it’ll be more work, but exciting tool.

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@Nyandia_G Oh, nooo. 🫢 Hard fought, May she RIP.

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@sucre_xo Also acted as a teenage serial killer on Criminal minds I believe. Embodies psycho frighteningly

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@_Briankorir The fact that you don’t get the illegality of what that MF did, because you’re the selective moral police, says a lot, for shame…so the idiot is a saint here too? A pity that wajinga wana the right to speak anyhow, regardless of their brain rot, clearly you’ve exercised it 🚮.

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@TeyaKevin Always on the phone talking to nobody 🤦🏾‍♀️

[A_Nya @Just_Laurier]

@inglorious_bat Tourism….really, smh. We do deserve dignified, working public transportation systems, regardless. Cultures evolve and exist alongside modernization. Also assuming that ma3 culture is just a young person’s game, 😂 Most are def over 35/ in 40s. Has it uplifted most of them?