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[Json Snr @OnyumaJson]

@otienowill Wakili you’ve been vindicated. Sadly, no one paid attention when you spent hours trying to educate Kenyans on this.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

My wife and I have made a list of five people we can sleep with if we ever get the chance.

She picked Brad Pitt, Sam Elliott, Tom Hardy, Kevin Costner, and Jon Hamm.

I’ve gone for her sister, her cousin, her best friend, the blonde UPS driver and the girl with big boobs at Dunkin’. Now I’m sleeping on the sofa because apparently she is not happy with my choices.

[Eric @amerix]

It is easy to blame your:

• Childhood

• Parents

• Tribe

• Government

It is much harder to accept responsibility for your own decisions.

The day a man stops looking for someone else to blame is the day he begins taking control of his life.

#ManDay

[Eric @amerix]

Live by a code:

• Loyalty.

• Strength.

• Honour.

• Discipline

If you stand for nothing, you fall for anything.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

There will never be a revolution because we hate each other more than we hate the system.

[Ja Loka @_fels1]

There is a short story I read some years ago. Every married man (or prospective man) needs to read it.

𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫 by Kate Chopin (1894).

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Obsess. For f*ck sakes. You only get one life. Don’t screw it up by being normal. Go all in. Act like a psycho. Let people call you insane. Please. I beg you. Obsession is the path.

[Andrew Kibe @kibeandy]

If indeed women are emotional beings, why do we ‘allow’ them to vote?

[Eric @amerix]

Feminists are retarded. Never give them attention. They will drag you down the rabbit hole.

[Droid @droid254]

I blocked Safaricom Sim swap meaning i have to go to Safaricom shop to do a Sim swap and everyone should do that Mulot boys are working hard

[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.

[Eric @amerix]

Absolutely important.

[Eric @amerix]

There are two things you should never give William Lee Kuan Yew:

1. A microphone.

2. People ready to listen to him.

Kuan Yew knows ball.

[Eric @amerix]

Reduce bitterness from your life, that shit delays blessings!

[Ja Loka @_fels1]

An uncomfortable truth:

“Any crime that is punishable by a fine is basically legal for those who can afford it.”

[Henix Obuchunju @Obuchunju]

There in Kilimani, an Australian national went looking for gold and walked away with a collection of smelted padlocks.

Yaani kufuli buana. Just like that, 78 million is gone. A prominent city lawyer involved withdrew the entire amount.

The level of commitment was peak: the conmen actually smelted the padlocks to convince him he was looking at the real deal; put simply, they were manufacturing the dream there and then.

I am convinced when we get to heaven, Kenyans will be told to sleep outside while the rest go in.

Angel Gabriel will have to search us twice to make sure nobody is trying to steal the gates of heaven to sell them for scrap metal.

[Eric @amerix]

Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That is your source of power.

— Robert Greene.

#FoodFriday

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

Patrice Lumumba. Thomas Sankara, Amilcar Cabral. Kwame Nkrumah. There are the men who died for me, not Jesus or Mohammed.

[Lydia Owuor @itslydiaowuor]

In Dholuo, we love saying “Ngima ema duong.”
It means that the gift of life is greater than anything else. It implies that as long as there’s life, we can do anything.
That as long as you’re alive, there’s room to try again. And again.

Thinking about it always makes me smile.