Njeri Macharia

Lifelong learner | Dream Chaser | Law, life, and a little bit of everything in between | Proud Kenyan 🇰🇪"

Views purely my own | Retweets are not endorsements

[Njeri Macharia @Ms_Macharia_]

"Good girls don't get the corner office."

[Mbugua Ng'ang'a @MbuguaNganga]

I mourn the passing of Patrick Mukabi, the artist behind the iconic paintings in all Java House wall paintings. As a newbie journalist, my bery first assignment was to cover the story of how Mukabi memorialised the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi. I have followed his work over the years and my best series from his collection was Market Women. Mukabi did a lot of work teaching youngsters to paint. But above all, he immortalised many aspects of Nairobi social life. He is a national treasure. The city of Nairobi owes him a great of gratitude. We need a City Arts Council to recognise such artists Wangui Maina and Dennis Onsarigo.

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers.

• Plato: It's remembering a soul.
• Freud: It's desire in disguise.
• Buddha: It's letting go.
• Nietzsche: It's dangerous weakness.
• Aristotle: It's one soul in two bodies.
• Kafka: It's a wound that doesn't heal.
• Darwin: It's nature's oldest trick.
• Dostoevsky: It's suffering willingly chosen.
• Einstein: It's gravity of the heart.
• Shakespeare: It's the fool's greatest madness.
• Schopenhauer: It's biology pretending to be poetry.
• Marx: It's a luxury the poor can't afford.
• Gandhi: It's the only true revolution.
• Tolstoy: It's service, nothing more.
• Proust: It's a memory we keep rewriting.
• Marcus Aurelius: It's the only worthy ambition.
• Bertrand Russell: It's the one escape from loneliness.
• Rumi: It's the fire that burns everything false.
• Oscar Wilde: It's the one thing money almost buys

[Julliet Njeri 🇰🇪 @JullietNjeri]

While the West called our grandparents "terrorists", Iran has chosen to pay them homage.
This includes the Pokot MauMau, who, as i recently found out, destroyed an entire potato plantation through great cunning, to sabotage the colonial settlers.

[Njeri Macharia @Ms_Macharia_]

🙌🏾🔥

[Dusty Sahara @NoCountryHere]

Iranian artillery pays homage to the revolutionary Mau Mau resistance🔥

[Dusty Sahara @NoCountryHere]

Iranian artillery pays homage to the revolutionary Mau Mau resistance🔥

[Joan Thatiah @JoanThatiah]

Mad? Maybe. Misunderstood? Definitely.

Mad Women is coming to a bookstore near you on Tuesday 7th April 2026.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Average female career pivot: 39
Average female entrepreneur starts: 42
Average female millionaire: 49
Women’s creative peak: 45-55

You’re not behind babe,
You’re right on time

[Nthabiseng @maetsa_kabomo]

The secret to enjoying motherhood is MONEY. Babysitters. Nannies. Day trips. Spa trips. Weekend trips. Mama’s solo weekend…… MONEY😂

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

Beware the trap of being really smart yet spending most of that bandwidth on things you have little control over.

High intelligence with little agency is the pipeline to unexplainable anxiety

[Duke of Gatanga @dnkariuki]

Riûre...

Nairobi drivers, please, I am overtaking your CAR not your DESTINY!!!! 😑

[Njeri Macharia @Ms_Macharia_]

@Chioma__Amadi This is incredibly thoughtful of your assistant. Hang on to her.

In the meantime, please share the playlist

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Consideration!!!

When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Thinks of you when making decisions that could affect you

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

These authors wanted to know whether mothers face discrimination in hiring, even when they are equally qualified as other applicants.

So they ran two experiments.

First, a lab experiment: participants evaluated pairs of identical job applicants who differed only in parental status.

Then, a real-world audit study: they sent 1,200+ job applications to real employers for entry- and mid-level jobs.

They randomized whether applicants were:
– Mothers (based on serving on the PTA)
– Childless women (they were listed as volunteering in a non-parent specific role)
– Fathers (based on serving on the PTA)
– Childless men (they were listed as volunteering in a non-parent specific role)

All applicants had identical qualifications.

Then they tracked evaluations, salary recommendations, and employer callbacks.

They found that:

Mothers were rated as less competent and less committed than equally qualified childless women.

Mothers were held to stricter standards, offered lower salaries, and were far less likely to be hired or promoted.

In the field experiment, real employers called back childless women at more than twice the rate of mothers.

Fathers, by contrast, faced no penalty and sometimes received a bonus.

Bottom line:
The “motherhood penalty” is real, causal, and driven by discrimination, not differences in ability.

As the authors put it:
“Giving evidence of being a mother leads to discrimination against mothers in hiring and pay.”

[Njeri Macharia @Ms_Macharia_]

@mougendi Congratulations!! 🥳🎊

[Eric Mugendi @mougendi]

A yearlong investigation by my colleague @Cynthia_Gichiri into how a law taking away farmers' freedom to plant what they wanted came to be. Definitely worth watching. Thanks Shoba.

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

When the prophet Elijah was suicidal and exhausted, God didn’t send a sermon. He didn’t rebuke him for a lack of faith.

​God sent an angel with a snack. He let him sleep. Then he fed him again.

​Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do today is take a nap or eat a meal.

[Lilian @lilymutinda]

Worked on the judges' profiles back in 2022 with @eddyashioya

Enter the record 👇
https://t.co/JtsVOx8EMJ

This week, Justice Mohamed Ibrahim’s gavel came to rest. A life of service and quiet wisdom. May he rest in peace.

His story.
https://t.co/jMKOxudByB

[Jean Jacques Dessalines 🇭🇹🇵🇸🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫🇨🇺 @JeanJacquesDes7]

The Mau Mau weren’t ‘savages’ or ‘terrorists’ like Britain claimed. They were Kenyans pushed to the edge by land theft, forced labor, and colonial violence. When people have nothing left to lose, resistance gets labeled as madness instead of survival.

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[Chilli Lemon @Bee_Cee3]

When I was an employee at Nairobi Women's Hospital niliona kazi yake real time. Paragraphs on social media don't move me.