"No one shall sell the soil" Declared the women.
In defense of belonging
In defense of community
In revolutionary love
Hallowed be the women
Who bequeathed us,
Our very existence in resistance
for resistance is our Inheritance.
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IKR? They be posturing as if this caught them offguard, yet they have intensified the violence they mete on children in schools since the last school burning episode.
We've lost children in schools. This thing keeps repeating itself over and over again.
Let us not let schools - as state actors - and the state to get away by hanging this on the necks of 14/15 year olds.
They could have stopped those children. This is malicious negligence.
We've lost children in schools. This thing keeps repeating itself over and over again.
Let us not let schools - as state actors - and the state to get away by hanging this on the necks of 14/15 year olds.
They could have stopped those children. This is malicious negligence.
Kenyans and violence 5 and 6, and its the worst kind of violence, a descent soul cant even fathom!!!
Because there is good violence, like the one you inflict on your oppresor. But Kenyans are committed to the former.
WHO wanted to build a modern facility at KU, but you brought politics into it.
Now the USA is building a major Ebola testing and quarantine facility, and you are politicking again.
Why donโt you agree that they build it, and also build a similar facility for Kenyan use, so that when we have any outbreak locally, we will use it?
You think Ebola wonโt land here at some point? It will and it will very soon.
The US & the West in general dont give a hoots abt Africans. They have never cared & they are not about to start. Africans have always been expendable in the advancement of their interests and comforts. Unforturnately some Africans continue to ingratiate themselves to the west.
โNo Kenyan will be allowed inside the American treatment unit. Kenya's own isolation infrastructure, which amounts to a single purpose-built viral haemorrhagic fever isolation unit at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, will handle any Kenyan Ebola cases independently, without cross-pollination with the American facility or its staff.โ-Washington Post
If you have heard of African loyalists & wondered how Africans could have tortured, raped and killed Africans to defend the crown. Oluga is playing that role perfectly, shepherding millions of Kenyans to their death, one press briefing, statement, and signature at a time.
This is how the the west introduced diseases and famine to subdue locals Africans and colonise them. You are not strengthening anything, you are relaunching direct colonialism, and Kenya is your entry point.
.@SecRubio spoke with Kenyan President @WilliamsRuto about the coordinated U.S.-Kenya response to the Ebola outbreak. Together, we're strengthening disease surveillance and supporting regional health security.
To be a politician is to be a career liar, but even worse, is that when you get into office, you can sign agreements to disposses, impoverish and kill your people, and call it ' international partnership and cooperation' Including importing Ebola to please empire.
Beyond politics, the move by the US to consider Kenya as a quarantine and monitoring zone for Ebola exposure is a significant nod of confidence in Kenyaโs public healthcare surveillance systems, emergency response preparedness and broader healthcare infrastructure.
You cannot handle a disease like Ebola without robust disease surveillance, laboratory capacity, trained healthcare personnel, isolation protocols and effective coordination between government agencies.
The fact that Kenya is even being considered reflects how far the country has come in strengthening its public health systems over the years.
Kenya has quietly built one of the strongest infectious disease response networks in the region.
Despite having porous borders, the country has largely managed to contain cross-border Ebola threats through surveillance, screening and rapid response mechanisms.
With institutions like the Kenya National Public Health Institute and KEMRI, alongside partnerships with CDC and WHO, and sustained investments in epidemiology and laboratory science, Kenya is increasingly positioning itself as a regional health security hub.
The US would not outsource sensitive infectious disease operations to a country it considers incapable.
So, despite the challenges facing the healthcare sector, Kenyans should recognize that the country possesses institutional public health strengths that are increasingly earning global recognition.
You cannot simultaneously insist that Africa is not a monolith and then aggregate a continent of 1.4 billion people across 54 countries into a single pro-Trump sentiment because men in markets and church courtyards told you what you wanted to hear.
And let us be precise about what "conservative values" means in the African contexts you are describing. The enthusiasm for Trump that you are encountering in significant portions of the continent is not an independent political philosophy that Africans arrived at through their own historical and intellectual traditions.
It is, in very large part, the inheritance of decades of American evangelical missionary expansion across sub-Saharan Africa, which exported a very specific brand of social conservatism, anti-abortion politics and patriarchal authority dressed as scripture, long before Trump existed. When a man in rural Uganda or coastal Kenya tells you he loves Trump, he is often telling you what three generations of American church money have taught him to value. That is not African conservatism but American cultural imperialism .
The "elite Africans with big English" you are dismissing are historians, economists, anthropologists and political analysts who have spent careers studying the structural conditions that produce poverty, authoritarianism, and dependency on the continent. The expertise accumulated through that work, through decades of fieldwork, peer-reviewed scholarship, and lived political engagement, is not something a CNN microphone can approximate, no matter how confidently you hold it.
Elite Africans with big English are crashing out over this post but the comments under it from across Africa are proving strong support for Trump.
Get out of your filter bubbles and speak to regular people outside your privileged circles
I think people are unwilling to admit that they turn to art as a form of escapist fantasy which is why thereโs so much ire when art indeed reflects the darkness, calamity and chaos of actual life.
OmG!! KFS is terrible but @karurafriends aren't any better. Yall are just mad you were ousted out of the deals. You dont care about the environment. Please!!
The destruction inside Karura Forest continues. Friends of Karura call on KFS to stop immediately and explain their plans. Thank you to @citizentvkenya@Eastleighvoice for highlighting this crisis. #SaveKarura
The academy is the intellectual wing of the state. It does not train public intellectuals, it trains people for the market or at the very most to sell knowledge as a commodity. Genuine intellectual engagement cant happen in state driven platforms.
At some point in your career as a public intellectual, you realize that you will be invited to some forums not so that your ideas can be amplified, but so that they can be misusedโฆor muted; strangled.
Always leave yourself some wiggle room. Move madly. Move surreptitiously.
What identifies one as public intellectual? And who is this outrage directed at? This matters cos ideas are be engaged with. The establishment does not engage with ideas.
At some point in your career as a public intellectual, you realize that you will be invited to some forums not so that your ideas can be amplified, but so that they can be misusedโฆor muted; strangled.
Always leave yourself some wiggle room. Move madly. Move surreptitiously.
Kenya has 104,000 police officers, and theyโre consistently ranked among the most corrupt institutions in Kenya. My government will eliminate corruption in the police service, from how theyโre recruited, trained, and deployed.
Police officers will be paid well, and will live in the communities where they serve. I shall upgrade police stations to ensure officers work in a sane environment, not those stinky, old, hazardous stations built by the colonialists decades ago. We shall enact laws that allow them to have a union.
There are some books I would like to buy from the US. I would like to be in touch with someone who travels to the US and back to Kenya regularly. Who knows any such person? Or are you such a person?