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[Maraga for president! 🇰🇪 🇸🇩 🇵🇸 @Shauwrae]

Recommended watching (documentaries especially for black creatives)

1. Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

[khaleesi🧍🏽‍♀️ @shelovesore]

Lmao I have 2.
Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.

Mother Teresa let dying patients be treated with blunt reused needles, had a mortality rate about 40% in her clinics and when she was confronted about the conditions, said there’s something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, and to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. Doctors called her facilities “homes for the dying”. And cancer patients were given aspirin for pain.

Gandhi too, the face of universal peace, the person that said “be the change you wish to see”, spent years in South Africa describing Black Africans as “savage”, “dirty” and living like animals. He campaigned actively to prove to British rulers that Indians were superior to native Black Africans. He also organized a brigade to help suppress a Zulu uprising. His defenders say he evolved. Maybe.

Nobody likes to talk about the entire sides of history.

And these are their summarized versions btw.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

My dear brother, Mau Mau fought against land alienation, police violence and lack of sovereignty. They were not alone. The trade unionists, Dini ya Msambwa and Barsirian arap Manyei were also in colonial detention at the same time. What made the status of the Mau Mau different is that the British decided to also engage in collective punishment of the Kikuyu Embu and Meru and pretend that the struggle was ethnic, not political.

So few Kenyans know that the Maasai, the Kamba and the Luhya participated in the Mau Mau. Chief Mukudi of Samia was detained by the British for administering the Mau Mau oath. I saw ES Atieno Odhiambo mention some Luo soldiers in the Nairobi ranks of the Mau Mau but I lost the reference. I'll keep looking for it.

Independence isn't liberation. It's the management of the colonialist state by Africans.

The whites were not chased out. They are still here. They still own land, plantations, mines and major installations. They gave us CBC. They just got a military agreement in Mombasa which exempts soldiers from prosecution. Wazungu didn't leave. They retreated from visibility, but not from power.

Until the late 1950s, the British had no intention of leaving. In their dream, Kenya was to be a multi-racial state. Shortly after, they aimed to leave in 1975. Then after, they decided to leave in 1963, but before they did that, they needed to ensure that Kenya was left in the hands of the sympathizers, your Lancaster people and the #IwenttoAlliance's.

Whites remained in the independence government, protected by Sir Charles Njonjo of Kabeteshire. Bruce Mackenzie was Ministry of Agriculture. Humphrey Slade the Parliament speaker. Goeffrey Griffin, a former information officer, started Starehe. Carey Francis moved to Pangani High School. In 1972, UoN students were violently suppressed by the police after complaining about the architecture department being staffed by wazungu faculty who were failing the students. Guess who was in charge of Nairobi Provincial Police? James Myles Oswald, who had killed many Mau Mau fighters.

The decision of the British to hand over the state to Africans was forced by the African resistance, of which Mau Mau was a major player. The British realized that it would be too expensive to keep suppressing rebellion, especially because the Mau Mau started to regroup in 1961. Plus the whole pan-African world's imagination was captured by the resistance. It was cheaper for the British to have African elites, your favorite Lancaster guys, rather than settlers, in charge. But overall, the British remained in charge from London.

Forcing the British to hand over the colonial state doesn't mean we were liberated. It just means we got black settlers in charge of the state, instead of white ones.

Reading helps even the best and the brightest.

[phantéau @_wangwe]

Forever stan my girl Adelle!

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

They've engineered the silence because they fear you more than they fear any judge. An informed public is their worst nightmare. So read the filings. Track the hearings. Ask the hard questions. The @IMFAfrica @KeTreasury, @NAssemblyKE, and every pen that signed these loans must answer.

Some politicians waiting in the wings will not speak because they hope to inherit the same broken system. To those seeking office: this is a test of principle. You cannot inherit a system you refuse to question.

We don't need their headlines to know our rights. The Constitution didn't give us a voice to whisper. The front page isn't theirs to give. It's ours to demand. Stay loud. Stay informed. The law is on our side
#OdiousDebtKenya #PeoplePower #DeniBandia

[Friends of Karura @karurafriends]

Nairobi National Park is under pressure.

Friends of Karura Forest stand with @FoNNaPKenya to immediately stop the destruction of 100 acres of upland forest in Nairobi National Park.

Reports confirm tree clearing linked to plans for the new Animal Orphanage and a 1,300-vehicle parking area tied to the Bomas project.
Kenya’s national parks are not parking lots!

Petition link: https://t.co/sSmtlSAmFZ

#SaveNNP #SaveKenyaForests

[Mwai, MBS. @IanJamesMwaiK]

Paying taxes in Kenya feels like funding criminal activities.

[Elira 🌘 Waiting for Taru 🦊 @EliraEclipse]

Muslims always gets the stereotypical terrorist bomber jokes just because of 9/11, yet Americans can bomb countries every year but somehow they're not the terrorists? Somehow they're not the monsters? Okay.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

They kidnapped Maduro and assassinated Khamenei before they arrested a single Epstein pedophile….

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Imagine if Iran bombed Washington and killed students in schools, what would you call it? Terrorists

The U.S. and Israel bombed Tehran and killed students in schools. Why do you call it a "pre-emptive strike"?

Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[Old School Eddie @Old_SchoolEddie]

The most painful part of taxes isn't the cost.

It's watching all the money you earned get wasted on corruption, incompetence, stupidity, and deviant ideology...

[Black Fashion Fair @BFASHIONFAIR]

Ceramic artist Magdalene Odundo emerged as a key reference point for Dior’s SS26 Haute Couture collection:

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Germany colonised Namibia, committed a genocide, shipped the native’s skulls to Germany for racial science studies, denied it for over a hundred years and then when they finally acknowledged it, they just said sorry and then outright refused to pay reparations or even meet the descendants of the victims.

Meanwhile, Germany has paid over $90 billion in Holocaust reparations and compensation to survivors and their heirs since the 1950s, with annual payments continuing for care and hardship, reaching around $1.5 billion annually.

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Freedom and democracy for purpose.

[Sarki. @Waspapping_]

The day America and Israel will collapse will go down as one of the greatest days in the history of mankind

[SaskCate 🇨🇦 @CateSask]

If Russia was banned from the Olympics for invading Ukraine, does the U.S. get banned for invading Venezuela and threatening other countries or is that rule strictly for nations without a PR department? Asking for a friend with basic pattern recognition.

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

But asking for free menstrual products and period leave is women and girls fleecing the system.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

The US can kidnap a president from a sovereign country, drag him into its courts, and call it “justice”, then turn around and sanction the ICC for trying to arrest a war criminal committing genocide. I don’t think you truly understand how broken this world is because of the US

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC...

US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

[Maraga for president! 🇰🇪 🇸🇩 🇵🇸 @Shauwrae]

My god this film!!! 🙆🏾‍♀️ You will only get to breath after 1 hour 55 minutes 😮‍💨