Nanjira

Itinerant 🌍 native. Complicating ‘glocal’ equations esp 🚥Tech*(Political Economy x Governance x Culture x Diplomacy ). Africa isn't poor, just mismanaged✊🏾

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life.”
~ Nsuuta to Kirabo, The First Woman. 📕 🔥

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“The full cost of housing is not measured only in what people pay. It also includes what they are forced to give up.” 💯

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“The report— ‘Home at what cost? A global report on how housing shapes safety, well-being and life’s biggest decisions— speaks of how broken the housing system is in the country, even with government intervention.”

https://t.co/o1lDV1d8Vy

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

Thinking about this a lot today.

And that what we are living through in the 254, is the existential fight for hope. We have tasted powerlessness and know it ain’t it!

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“Since the essence of the ideal life is regarded as power and creativity, growth, creative work and increase have become essential values. Powerlessness or loss of vitality, unproductive living, and growthlessness become ultimate evils in our indigenous culture.” ~ Noah Dzobo, 🇬🇭

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“Kenya walked into that [Monday] meeting as a host of Microsoft engineering and walked out as a Microsoft customer.

There is nothing wrong in being a good customer, but we should not confuse it with being a technology hub.”

[Bankelele @bankelele]

"AI did not write the Nairobi engineers out of their jobs. The bill for AI did" .. nice writing by @moseskemibaro on the @Microsoft ADC in Nairobi. https://t.co/Gb5YXjuxOY

[Kenyanbirder @Kenyabirder]

African Harrier-Hawk in Murang'a

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

@CasNonsense 😂😂😂

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“Expecting things to be bad is the best way to be pleasantly surprised when they’re not. Which is something to be optimistic about.”

https://t.co/wtjVmWfX4z

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“Optimism demands facts and is ditched at the first sign of trouble. Pessimism can be grown from a crazy thought and clutched indefinitely.”

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“Certain kinds of optimism are crueller than pessimism because they ask us to invest in a future that is at best unlikely and at worst a fantasy.”
~ Lauren Berlant.

#CruelOptimism

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“Despite an awareness of how powerfully we’ve changed in the past, it’s too easy to underestimate our ability to change in the future.”

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

For thousands of Nairobi residents seeking a quiet place to relax, exercise or escape the city's congestion, Uhuru Park and Central Park have for many years offered a rare refuge.

But a Nairobi county government's plan to lease designated spaces within the two public parks to private operators has raised questions about how the historic green spaces will be managed and who will benefit.

The Environment and Land Court has now barred the county from implementing the leasing plan until it conducts meaningful public participation and complies with the applicable laws.

Read more: https://t.co/AVC8Dqo4G7

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“44 per cent of Kenyans hold the opinion that the country’s housing system is either broken or does not work […]

six in 10 Kenyans who do not yet own homes say they do not expect to acquire one in their lifetime.”

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“The report— ‘Home at what cost? A global report on how housing shapes safety, well-being and life’s biggest decisions— speaks of how broken the housing system is in the country, even with government intervention.”

https://t.co/o1lDV1d8Vy

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“Since the essence of the ideal life is regarded as power and creativity, growth, creative work and increase have become essential values. Powerlessness or loss of vitality, unproductive living, and growthlessness become ultimate evils in our indigenous culture.” ~ Noah Dzobo, 🇬🇭

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Today's Daily Cartoon, by Jon Adams.

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

Jah bless the people behind the “Too Good” yoghurt brand!

Lives up to the name and then some! 🙌🏾

https://t.co/ardP975A0M

[Q. Ali @NobleQAli]

Everything is performative to chronic underachievers.

[Odinga Mandela @Mandela_O1]

10 years apart.

f1: Waiyaki Way 2016.

f2: Waiyaki Way 2026.

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

☝🏾👇🏾
https://t.co/OIjgy9A6JV

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

"A culture made to live by an alias will inevitably revert to the identity that was repressed instead of evolve a new identity based on the open experience of a new reality."

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

Petrichor.❤️❤️❤️🌧️

[Nanjira @NiNanjira]

“What is the value of a memorial that is erected in the absence of justice?” 😮‍💨

https://t.co/96GBjAopDK