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[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

“Excessive dancing invites disorder and demons.”

“For Her Majesty’s Government, keep the natives orderly.”

Colonial rule was not just about controlling land and labour. It was about controlling culture, expression, assembly, and identity.

The language sounds ridiculous today. The mentality should concern us even more.
#DecoloniseGovernance #ReKe #PeoplePower

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026 Explained

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[I am Chege @_James041]

" KENYANS BE AWARE, BARBARIANS ARE AT THE GATE"

France entered West Africa through summits, looted natural resources, committed economic terrorism and were chased away through military led revolution.

They are repositioning themselves in Africa and they have identified a fake Pan-African in Kenya, who is willing to be used as a puppet.

This clip was done by Nathalie Yamb @Nath_Yamb , an activist from Cameroon.

It's only six minutes long and it will save your life.

[Lethukuthula Khozah @LethueK]

The cost of money in Africa is the hidden tax on growth.

While G7 countries borrow at 0.75%–3.75%, Africa’s median sits around 6.75% and in some cases like Zimbabwe (35%) and Sudan (28%+), it becomes nearly impossible to build or scale a business.

High interest rates don’t just slow startups they choke innovation, limit investment, and delay development.

Capital is expensive where it’s needed the most.

[ONJOLO KENYA🇰🇪 @onjolo_kenya]

Watched an Alex Mwakideu interview the other day he was talking to the legendary judge from Vioja Mahakamani. Millennials, you know her ~That no-nonsense mama who took zero nonsense in that courtroom.

Now here’s the wild part they never had scripts. Not a single one. They’d just show up, pick roles, agree on the case, and go. Cameras rolling, take one, done.
So every punchline Alphonse Makacha and Dot Makokha ever dropped? Pure improvisation. No rehearsal. Nothing prepared. Just talent doing its thing in real time.

Kenya really had something special with that crew.

And here’s the part that gets me AG Amos Wako was fully behind the show. He’d supply them with real court cases and actual judgments from Kenyan courts. So when the judge passed her verdict on screen, it wasn’t made up. It was legally accurate, straight from the constitution.

Comedy on the surface. Civic education underneath.

That’s a level of craft most productions today can’t touch.

Golden era. Salute to those legends. 🫡

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

And then Kenyans said we're not industrializing because of the arts. Nkt. As if the arts are the World Bank.

[thingsnonithinks @MissBachia]

@NemaKenya are schools permitted to have discos during the day, loud speakers during assembly from 7:30am? How can noise pollution be controlled in residential areas?

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

In Kenya, this surveillance of children was presented as assessing children over the years instead of restricting their assessment to one exam sat over a few days. The gaslighting was brilliant. Kenyan parents celebrated the end of exams and couldn't understand that this is surveillance that will follow their children for the rest of their lives. It means that African adults will be held throughout their lives to things they did when they were minors and didn't understand what they were doing.

We are selling the data of Africa's children to foreign companies and we think it's education.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

💥🇧🇷 JUST IN: President Lula just said what every Global South nation should be saying: critical minerals are ours. If you want them, come set up here. Produce here. Generate development here. We are no longer colonized countries. We will not give up our sovereignty.

The West has spent centuries extracting Africa's minerals, Latin America's lithium, Asia's rare earths. Taking. Exploiting. Leaving nothing but poverty and pollution. Now the world needs these resources for the green transition, and they think the old model still works.

No. Not anymore.

The era of extraction without development is over. The era of sovereignty without compromise has begun. Lula said it. The people feel it. And the world better listen.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

There's something interesting I've noticed about podcast interviews on geopolitics done by Africans. The questions are asked in terms about emotional attachment. Can Africa trust abcd? Who is Africa's friend? Who likes Africa? Who is racist (meaning who hates us)? Whose side should Africa take? Etc.

@DavidHundeyin's answer to such questions is always the same: we Africans should think in terms of our interests, not touchy feely lovey dovey terms.

And once again, this is an education problem. To think in terms of interests is political thinking. But Africa is always violently returned to thinking emotionally. The exam/certification system reduces us to the tangible. When foreign philanthropists come, when influencers visit Africa, the analysis is emotional. Oh, philanthropist A is so kind. He's solving problems for African children. Oh, this influencer makes me cry because he's connecting us to the diaspora. Oh, this influencer is so kind, he made a poor citizen break down in tears by giving him a simple machine. Let's all forget the political economy and our interests. Let's focus on Africa's friends and how they feel about us, or focus on our haters and call them racists.

Again, this is an education problem. The Western school, media and church ecosystem does not allow analysis to Africans. In different and subtle ways, we are blocked from analytical activity. And especially from subjects like history and philosophy that give us the tools for contextual analysis. The obsession with the "practical," especially in countries colonized by the British, makes us voluntarily narrow our minds. Unless this problem is addressed, we'll keep on asking who feels what about us, who should we feel nice about, instead of articulating what are our interests.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

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Let me know if I'm wrong.

[Mwalimu Mūtemi wa Kīama @MutemiWaKiama]

11 billion here, 11 billion there...

#UshenziKE

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

What shocks me is not just the scale of corruption in Kenya, but how numb we have become to it.

You look at the figures and your mind just can’t wrap around it. In much of Europe, someone with €3 million would comfortably be called wealthy. In Kenya, within sections of the political class, KES 500 million barely scratches the surface of what is siphoned off. When Uhuru publicly acknowledged that around KES 2 billion was being lost daily to corruption, it should have triggered a national reckoning. Instead, it became just another headline in the churn.

That normalization is perhaps the most dangerous part. When billions disappear every day, the numbers stop feeling real. They lose their weight. Yet those billions are hospitals not built, roads not repaired, youth not employed, businesses not financed. They are classrooms without desks and patients without medicine.

And there is a tragic irony to it all. The sums are so vast that even those looting them often do not grasp their magnitude. Wealth hidden behind shell companies, proxies, coded accounts in foreign jurisdictions. In some cases, fortunes end up frozen or inaccessible because the secrecy was so elaborate that even heirs cannot trace them.

Corruption at that scale is not just theft. It is economic terrorism. It distorts incentives, erodes trust, and quietly taxes the poor far more than the rich. The deeper tragedy is not only the money stolen, but the future foreclosed.

The real challenge is to move from outrage to systems that make such theft structurally difficult, politically costly, and socially unacceptable. Without that shift, the numbers will keep growing, and so will the numbness.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Chao Tayiana Maina is a Kenyan historian documenting the erased history of the Mau Mau.

After the death of the last Mau Mau general in February, she explains how the colonial blueprints used to crush the Mau Mau uprising are being used on protesters around the world today ⤵️

[thingsnonithinks @MissBachia]

@LinkedInHelp Mayday! Mayaday! I need help retrieving my LinkedIn profile. It disappears with no trace or notification. I’d much prefer retrieving my account and network as opposed to creating a new one.

[Small Waist, Pretty Face. @oddettem]

Dear ladies never forget that: The same world that shames me for being a single mother also shames you for not being a mother and shames another woman for having too many children..lt shames one woman for having a child at the age of 19 because she's too young but also shames another for having at 36 because she's too old..lt shames a woman who marries young as well as the one who marries old..It shames women who don't have beautiful bodies and shames those who go under the knife to get the bodies. This world shames all women, not a single one of us is spared, not a single one. So love and make yourselves happy.

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

Kenyans need to wake up!!
We are paying for loans we never borrowed.
Loans that were never approved by Parliament.
Loans we can’t even trace.
And the IMF & World Bank won’t stop,
they keep lending to governments that loot.
We are being buried in debt we never asked for.
Say NO to these fraudulent loans!!

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

I’m reading this book that explains how, when the British were considering granting independence to their African colonies, they initially planned to begin with West Africa. Ghana, in particular, was viewed as the most advanced. Its citizens included many trained lawyers and administrators who had been part of government since 1888. In contrast, the East African colonies, especially Kenya, had limited experience in governance.

To address this, the British devised a plan to create a multi-racial society in East Africa and encouraged white settlers to move there, intending for them to help run government institutions after independence. Under this plan, Kenya’s independence was envisioned for around 1975.

However, the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and the Nyasaland revolt soon after threw the entire strategy into crisis. The uprisings shattered British confidence in a gradual transition and forced London to accelerate decolonization, leading to the rapid preparation for independence across Africa by 1960.

Yet, sixty years later, Kenya seems to have evolved far faster than the British ever imagined. Among all their former African colonies, Kenya stands out not only for its complex political history but also for how quickly it has built a resilient population, a dynamic private sector, and a politically aware population. What the British once dismissed as “inexperience in governance” has become one of Africa’s most remarkable stories of adaptation and progress.

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

Dear @KEMRI_Kenya
I have a few questions regarding your recently announced Ksh516 million ($4M) grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the Leadership & Excellence in African Women’s Health (LEA-WH) programme.

Transparency matters especially when foreign funding intersects with women’s health, patents, and data.

1️⃣ Who will own the patents, medical products, and startups developed under this programme? Will intellectual property belong to Kenyan institutions, individual researchers, or the Gates Foundation?

2️⃣ Where will women’s health data and biospecimens collected through this research be stored , in Kenya or abroad? Who will have access to it, and under what data protection laws?

3️⃣ You mention “up to 10 medical products” and “5-10 patents” by 2033. How does a three-year, $4M grant deliver decade-long commercial outcomes? What mechanisms ensure accountability once the funding ends in 2029?

4️⃣ Who determines research priorities and funding approvals , a Kenyan-led board or the Gated Foundation’s offices ?
Please publish the governance structure and decision-making process.

5️⃣ The project will “work closely with the US National Academy of Medicine.” Why not with the African Academy of Sciences, which is based here in Nairobi?

6️⃣ Will the products developed be manufactured and priced locally to ensure accessibility for African women? Are there binding commitments to non-exclusive licenses and affordable pricing across Africa?

7️⃣ You mention a “continental alumni network” and “innovation policy ecosystem.” Who will fund and control these platforms once the grant ends , KEMRI, the Kenyan government, or external partners?

8️⃣ What percentage of the Ksh516M actually reaches local scientists and facilities, and how much goes to administrative overhead, consultants, and international collaborations?

9️⃣ Has the grant agreement, IP policy, or data governance framework been shared with Parliament, or made public? If not, why?

Thank you.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Today, Poland has become a vibrant society.

Old towns have been rebuilt with care.
Churches restored.

Soviet scars replaced with colorful facades and cobbled streets.

Poland proved something no one talks about:
You can build prosperity without destroying beauty.