IX™

Citizen || Research || Wanderlust || Oh, why not? ~

[IX™ @TweetingPundit]

Swing by @NuriaBooks and grab a copy.

[WATCHING.KE @KeWatching]

Who is documenting this movement? The tactics we Kenyans have employed against jambazi since June 25th are unprecedented. The protests, Kusalimiana, Occupy churches, public audits, vampire diaries, hastags, silhouttes, cartoons, AI images, X spaces, ALL of it. #FufuaICC

[Itumelanin @Itumelanin]

“Start a business.” ~ Government official who has never run anything but their mouth their entire working career.

[Fisted Away @fistedaway]

Please: be respectful of the host nation’s culture and traditions

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

In Kenya, when GoK people say "let's not politicize matters," they mean "let's accept everything the government says."

Madame @psmuthoni, I hear your first degree is B.Ed English. Those are the students I teach. If you had attended my theory class, I would have told you everything is political. Politics is about power and resources. You have made a political decision to support imperialism. You have no right to tell Kenyans not to be political as well.

[Abdullahi Halakhe @QulshTM]

World Cup is the best low-key sportwashing opportunity. Every dictator knows it; that is why they promise so many goodies for the team. Mobutu is a great example. But America and its wanna-be Gikomba dictator are bungling it.

[Othell Yarwyck @bigbrovar]

Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)

Just silence.

[Mbithi Masya @mbithi]

Speaking with KWS and KFS rangers is truly depressing when you hear what Ruto is really doing with all our protected lands. Stupid greed with no end in sight.

[Paul Olind @OlindPaul]

By this time next year and even earlier, it should be much clearer whether the aspirations and vision championed by Gen Z are politically viable or whether the country is headed toward another wave of mass radicalisation driven by deepening disillusionment.

[Stanbic Bank Kenya @StanbicKE]

Growth is not neat or predictable. Some days it is rejection emails; other days it is small wins that keep you going.

It is showing up anyway, adding one more layer to your story, even when it’s tough. And the truth is, your masterpiece is never really done.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

It's all political. Social relations and morality are determined and affected by politics. Politics, very simply, is the decisions and activities surrounding power and resources, and the plight of the majority. What we misname "politics" in Kenya is theater, soap operas, gossip, imperial puppetry of the comprador elite, and the once every 5 years popularity contests of the 0.1%.

[Dr. Ho Yinsen @kinjeketile]

Because we let foreigners fund San Marco, Kenyans getting access is hard.
We also let Longonot rot away while Ghana used their 32 metre single dish Radio telescope at Kuntuse to serve as single dish observation & participation in developing African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network.

[Odanga Madung @Odangaring]

This is part of the reason i mute majority of Kenyans on my linkedin btw… people are just happy to announce that they are attending meetings…

no real insight or resources! We’re too ok with mediocrity as a people and i wonder when we became so hollow!

[Odanga Madung @Odangaring]

This is exactly what Nairobi has become, lots of resources are available for talking, panels, content and eating sausages in hotels, but nobody is really producing...

Kenya s no longer productive! We are just talkative!

[Akal Simba @HonAkalSimba]

"usiguze Hio", "usiuze Hio", "usibomoe Hio", "usilete ugonjwa", "usiue hao", "usiongee hivyo"…

We are parenting a president.

[IX™ @TweetingPundit]

@AdhiamboKE @Moh_Mumbi The fact that both the CoK 2010 & mandugu digital are consequences of '07. We've never recovered from that '05 fallout.

[Akan @K2grind]

Kenya is on FATF Greylist. We can blame Paypal all we want, but our issues starts with the regime that has allowed wash wash monies into the system. Till we are out of that list, international Financial firms will always have a keen look of Kenyans finances

[IX™ @TweetingPundit]

Alesandr Solzhenitsyn's speech, A World Split Apart.

[IX™ @TweetingPundit]

The constitution is doing it's work perfectly, now let's develop our histories/religions/philosophies, social institutions so that we don't let the workings of the society rest entirely on the cold formality of the laws, great as they may be.

[IX™ @TweetingPundit]

@QulshTM @mariahsudi Let me tell you about the great #SamosaWar of 2026.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Until you watch parents accept nonsense from the schools in the name of their children's education, and you realize it's not a problem limited to religion. Binyavanga wrote that "schooling is Kenya’s largest and most effortful industry, even larger than the churches. All this effort is for a few places in four or five very good schools, or four or five very good jobs."

Or people voting for the same thugs who rob them, impoverish them and kill them.

Africans are so battered by the imperialist political economy. The economy is cutthroat, opportunities are few and life is chaotic. We are constantly punished and threatened for crimes we didn't commit, for breaking rules we didn't know existed and that keep being created every day. People can't keep up. They are looking for a space where life is predictable and they don't have to take responsibility for anything. The pastor is doing that on their behalf. So are the school principals of our burning schools.

So we need to stop sneering at people like this and ask ourselves: what need are these people meeting, and why is it that they can only meet that need through being humiliated? Africa needs to stop believing our dysfunction is natural. It's social and political, and we need to do the work of understanding it to uproot it.

Langley guys, you can now sing that "let's not blame yadiyada..." song. Go for it.

[Rasna Warah @RasnaWarah]

I said it before, am saying it again, one day someone will look at Kenya and say, here lie the ruins of a country destroyed by greed.