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[Janet Machuka @janetmachuka_]

Soft skills aren’t the soft ones any more😂

They’re must have skills if you want to stay human in an AI powered environment 🤭

[Tilingi 🐘 @ArapTilingi]

Kijana ya mrima hajui as a man you always have to keep right?

[German Embassy Nairobi @GermanyinKenya]

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[Sara Al-saeed @saraalsaeed91]

Why has #Kenya emerged as one of #East #Africa’s most influential states despite lacking the region’s largest population or strongest military? My latest article argues that Kenya’s regional influence is built not simply on economic growth, but on its ability to organise finance, logistics, technology, and institutions into a system that increasingly shapes #East #Africa. Read the full article on Substack. https://t.co/Sabnn1boUF

[Omwamba 🇰🇪 @omwambaKE]

11 years ago,
Some legend went ahead and lied to the Luhyas from Nambale in Busia County that they would be given FREE Kamba women to marry.

[Destiny Krams 🇳🇬 @fweshtiny]

South Africans didn’t see this coming.

This is content 🤣🤣🤣👇👇

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Erling Haaland and Martin Ødegaard lead the Viking Row at the World Cup in Dallas

[Mbiti Mwondi Maino,MD @mbiti_mwondi]

The only thing I know about this gal is her shaking nyash and it’s therapeutic better than MindFiti in fixing mental health issues.

[𝗞 𝗔 𝗡 𝗚 𝗘 𝗧 𝗛 𝗘™🇰🇪 @Realkangethe]

If a Kikuyu, Luo, Kalenjin, Luhya, Mswahili, and Somali all got hired on the same day at Kenya Ports Authority, Mombasa, and you went back to check on them after 10 years, this is what you would find:

KIKUYU 🐝

✅ Owns a three-bedroom in Shanzu. Title deed in his name. Family settled, children in a private school nearby. He hardly goes to his village. Mombasa became home!

✅ Has two rental units in Kisauni already generating income. A matatu on the Likoni route with a trusted tout managing it.

✅ Drives a 1300cc EFI. Clean. Paid for in cash.

✅ His idea of a night out is meeting one old friend at a local leaking joint, splitting a quarter kilo of nyama choma, and arguing over land prices in Ruiru over two cold Tuskers.

✅ He is already planning to quit KPA.

LUO 👑

✅ Lives in a five-bedroom house in Nyali. Rent is 85,000 a month. The sitting room has a chandelier.

✅ Drives a 4000cc V8 on a loan that still has six years to run. The car turns heads. That is the point.

✅ No land. No rentals. Has a savings account he has never saved in.

✅ Is the Chairman of the KPA Workers Union. Has called eleven strikes in ten years. Nine of them were about Kikuyus being promoted unfairly. He sings TUTAM in meetings!

✅ His Friday night involves ten friends, a table full of beers, music that makes conversation impossible, and a very loud argument about how Raila would have been the greatest president Africa ever produced.

✅ Genuinely believes the Kikuyu guy in accounts is stealing. Has no evidence. Does not need any. But he believes they were born thieves!

KALENJIN 🏃

✅ Family is in Kericho. He is in Mombasa. This arrangement makes complete sense to him.

✅ His 1300cc car is also in Kericho. He takes buses.

✅ Has quietly bought 37 acres near Londiani. Does not talk about it.

✅ Drinks beer slowly, alone or with one or two clansmen, in a corner of a quiet bar. The conversation is mostly about home. He is already mentally back in the Rift.

✅ Regularly wonders why they built the port in Mombasa and not somewhere more sensible, like Kericho.

LUHYA 🎵

✅ Has one wife in Bungoma and one wife in Mombasa. Both know about each other. Neither is happy. He manages.

✅ Has been waiting seven years for another Luhya to become MD so things can finally go his way. There have been two Luhya MDs. Neither remembered him.

✅ No savings. No land. But he knows every Lingala song released between 2015 and today, and there is always a sweet sixteen somewhere who thinks he looks important.

✅ Looks at the Kikuyu's rental houses with genuine admiration and zero plan to replicate them.

✅ His budget does not survive the third week of any month.

MSWAHILI 🌊

✅ Has never lived anywhere else. His grandfather worked at the port. His father worked at the port. He works at the port. This is simply how things are done.

✅ Lives in the family house in Mvita, Old Town. The house was built in 1962. He sees no reason to move.

✅ Does not hustle. Does not plan. Believes strongly that riziki inatoka kwa Mungu and that rushing is a sign of poor upbringing.

✅ Has a small shop downstairs run by his wife. The shop has been open since 1987. The stock has not changed much since then either.

✅ Genuinely confused why the Kikuyu is always running somewhere. Kwani where is he going?

✅ Spends evenings at the baraza with elders drinking kahawa chungu and discussing how Mombasa was better before everyone else arrived.

✅ Still waiting for his cousin's friend's brother to finalize paperwork on a piece of land in Likoni. The cousin says it is almost ready. It has been almost ready for four years.

SOMALI 🐪

✅ Was hired at KPA but stopped showing up after three months. Nobody is quite sure when he left or how. But everyone suspects he gets paid.

✅ Currently owns a money transfer business, a wholesale shop in Eastleigh, a small logistics company operating between Mombasa and Garissa, and a share in a fuel depot.

✅ Drives a clean Prado. Cash.

[Timothy Turunga @timothyturunga]

The Last Goodbye
​The Indian Ocean in Mombasa has witnessed everything. Norman Anthony Joel and Rita Marion Joel, popularly known as Tony and Rita, arrived again in October 2009, two elderly souls clutching each other's hands like teenagers. "Late love," they called it. It had blossomed when they had stopped looking, when their bodies had begun their quiet betrayal but their hearts still believed in forever.

​At The Sun and Sand Beach Resort, "Room 132," the receptionist murmured, and the entire front desk nodded like a Catholic chorus. There was no discussion. That room belonged to the Joel's the way the ocean belonged to the tides.
​Daniel Musyoka had been the front office manager since 2006. During his first week, Rita had marched straight past the check-in counter, dragging Tony by the sleeve and demanding to see "their room" before she had even signed a single form. Daniel had been scandalized. Rules were rules, but something about that woman, her tiny frame, her crackling laugh, and the way she made "please" sound like a conspiracy disarmed him completely.

​Everyone knew they loved Room 132. They would stay for two or three weeks, go home for less than a month, and then they were back. The hotel staff had a game they played. Whenever the Joys' booking came through, someone else would have to be moved. Some poor German tourist already in 132 would received the news with appropriate confusion:
"But I paid for this room," only to be relocated with a free dinner and a whispered explanation: "The British couple. You understand."

​Once you saw Rita and Tony together, and once you watched them hold hands at breakfast, you understood that some people deserved exceptions. Rita was a poet. This explained everything and nothing why she would stop mid-sentence to stare at a flower, why she laughed at funerals and cried at weddings, and why she could make a compliment sound like a criticism and a criticism sound like a compliment.

​Tony, meanwhile, was a music lover with infinite patience. He had learned, long ago, that Rita's chaos was not a problem to be solved but a weather system to be enjoyed. He swore in Swahili when he was happy. He called the waiters "rafiki" and meant it. He had the kind of face that made you want to confess your sins.
​They captured the hearts of almost everybody. At any given time they passed by, no one would dare not open their mouth and say, 'Jambo' to them."

​Daniel became their favorite. This was not a decision anyone made consciously; it happened slowly, until one day they realized an entire ecosystem had formed around a single point. The British couple brought him gifts every visit: clothes from Marks & Spencer, books that Rita had already read and annotated in the margins, and once, a watch that Tony had purchased at considerable expense. Daniel accepted these offerings with appropriate gratitude, never quite understanding why two wealthy retirees from the United Kingdom had decided that a front office manager in Mombasa deserved their attention.

​The hotel staff noticed the way Rita would pull Daniel aside for private conversations, and the way Tony would clap him on the shoulder and ask about his mother, his brother, and his dreams. They noticed the 500,000 shillings that changed hands somewhere along the way. But love looks different from the outside. What seemed like favoritism to some was simply proximity to others. No one could deny that Daniel made the Joels happy. And happy guests meant job security, so everyone won.
The last goodbye continues

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[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

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[Doreen Majala @doreenmajala]

My LL.M. thesis was approved today and it calls for a celebration. Naweka masomo kando kwa sasa.

[KABUGO @Kabugo_]

Some people graduated with first-class degrees... then queued for jobs. Another left school early and signs their paychecks. Life laughs quietly.

[KABUGO @Kabugo_]

The most dangerous thing you can do to an intelligent person is try to impress them. they clock it immediately.

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Cape Verde's music is going viral following the massive support for the National Team at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

[Onile Olona. @alpontif]

You should emulate Elumelu, not Dangote, not Otedola. Tony is the one you want to model after if you are starting from scratch.

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

Growth without systems is just organized chaos. If your business cannot operate for one week without you, you don’t own a business yet you own a demanding job.

[Kibet Collins @kibety]

We are beginning Monday on a very good note

[Kipkurui Wilbur 🇰🇪 🇬🇧 @wilber1990f]

People don’t know that reliability is a virtue that’s unmatched. I need repair n you plug me in minutes, the next time I will need phone sorted, Title deed change, reliable advocate I will think of you before anyone. Reliability makes people assign you their entire life’s problems and you will harvest 💴 endlessly

[Cleopatra | Seduce Her 💋 @SeduceCleopatra]

Men 30+ with no kids is a green flag! That means he makes great decisions.