Mūtamaīyū

Lover of books,
Appreciates breathtaking photography

[Mūtamaīyū @_T0t56]

The colonialists may have left physically but they have us by the cojones through economics and Christianity. In the bible jesus told his followers that he'd leave them a helper......now you see the application, right?

[stacy business @traderstacy254]

Very Poor Kenyans want Burundians gone
Fake middle class want the Kelis gone
Real middle class want expats gone
Business ppl want Chinese gone
A mix bag want Somali gone
Laikipians want wazungu wa huko gone
Watu wa Lynn want Batuk gone

Every class has its enemy lol

[Cerebral Assassin @xysist]

An A student who is lazy and doesn’t work hard will end up being average or below average in life while a B student who puts in consistent work and strives to be better will end up more successful

Bottom line is education is useless without hard work, dedication and discipline

[RT Intl @RT_on_X]

Italian missionary priest quits Catholic Church to marry a Kenyan woman

Father Sandro served as a priest in Kenya's Baringo County for 12 years — before leaving the priesthood to wed a local woman

The wedding reportedly took place right in the parish where he once served

[Silas Nyanchwani @nyanchwani]

A few months after leaving the University of Nairobi, I was homeless. What rescued me was not the Kenyan economy. It was a South Sudanese friend from college who took me to Juba to help start a newspaper while he ran a bakery. We rode a Kampala Express bus out of River Road, and I fell in love with Uganda on the way, a country where a man with no money can still have a good evening. That is not true of Nairobi, where the venue is the velvet rope.

The bakery worked. The newspaper did not. Within months I was back in Nairobi, homeless again. Again, a South Sudanese friend picked me up and took me to Northern Bahr el Ghazal, where he employed me for a year alongside many other Kenyans. I earned enough to come home, resume journalism, hijack a girl and start a family. One foreigner's favour to another paid for the next ten years of my life.

On Wednesday at State House, President William Ruto told small-scale traders that foreigners running small businesses should close them within the week. He promised legislation barring foreigners from certain trades. Kenya wants investors who create jobs, he said, not hawkers. The deadline falls today.

I am not neutral on this. I have a career, a marriage and the best decade of my working life because other African countries let a broke Kenyan walk in and work.
The man the president wants to shut down is me, twelve years ago, in somebody else's capital.

Four to five million Kenyans work outside Kenya, by the government's own estimate, more than half of them in other African countries. They are nurses, teachers, hairdressers and hawkers, running precisely the businesses a Ugandan president could close on a Wednesday if he spoke the way ours did. In the twelve months to May 2025, Kenyans abroad sent home Sh931.8 billion, according to a joint KNBS, Central Bank and FSD Kenya household survey. The Central Bank's own 2025 figure, measured differently, is USD 5.04 billion. Either number beats tea, coffee, horticulture and tourism combined.

That is his claim, not mine. He has praised the diaspora at State House for exactly the behaviour he criminalised on Wednesday when other Africans do it here.

The answer to his argument sits twenty minutes from his office. Somalis fleeing the collapse of Siad Barre's state after 1991 ended up in Garissa Lodge, where tenants turned their beds into stalls by day. That is hawking with a mattress. It now holds more than seventy malls and some 25,000 shops, and is estimated to generate between thirty and forty per cent of the tax the Kenya Revenue Authority collects in Nairobi. Governor Johnson Sakaja once told this president, in public, that Eastleigh's economy is larger than Rwanda's. Every part of it began as what he announced he would close on Monday. Foreigners. Small businesses. No permits. The state's contribution was to raid it and deny it building approvals.

We have also measured this properly, on Kenyans. The World Bank and UNHCR study of Kakuma found the camp raised the host region's economic output by 3.4 per cent and local employment by 2.9 per cent, and modelled that letting refugees work and move freely would lift Turkana income per head by around 6 per cent. Not refugee income. Turkana income, in one of the poorest counties in Africa. The World Bank returned this May with the corollary: when aid was cut, host livelihoods fell with refugee incomes, because Turkana and Garissa traders sell into the camp economy.

None of which means the anger is invented. Kenyan traders are being destroyed, and a man losing his corner does not want a lecture. But look at what is destroying him. Credit that costs more than his margin. Cess collected three times on one crate of tomatoes. Cartels controlling imports and market access. A tax net that catches the mama mboga and misses the importer. Close every foreign-owned kiosk in Nairobi on Monday and every one of those is still standing on Tuesday.

The giveaway is Eastleigh's own last trade war. It was Somali shopkeepers shutting their malls in protest at Kenyan hawkers outside, who paid no rent and no licence and undercut them. The real fight in our informal economy is between people carrying overheads and people avoiding them. It has nothing to do with passports. Nationality is simply the version a politician can win without spending money. Fixing credit is slow and makes enemies with lawyers. A crackdown on foreigners is free and makes enemies only of people who cannot vote, ten months before an election.

It also contradicts his own policy. In March 2025 this administration launched the Shirika Plan at this same State House: the end of encampment, identity documents, tax numbers, bank accounts, business permits, and the right to live anywhere in Kenya without a movement pass. Eighteen months later the same president has ordered the people it was designed to bring into the economy to shut their shops. You cannot integrate people on Tuesday and evict them on Wednesday.

He cannot hide behind the public either. Stanford researchers put the question to more than 3,300 Kenyans. Sixty-seven per cent supported refugee work permits and financial inclusion, 69 per cent access to government services, 57 per cent freedom of movement. In July, when a Kenyan man was filmed accusing a Burundian trader of stealing his opportunity, the dominant public reaction was embarrassment. Not that the government cares about public opinion.

I did not arrive at this position cleanly. Those traders bothered me for most of a decade, and what I felt was not an economic judgement. Reporting changed it. The reason so many of them hawk on the streets all over is that we made every legal route impassable. A refugee has the right to work on paper and needs a Class M permit in practice, obtained through a process so slow and costly that law and reality have stopped speaking to each other. That question is before the High Court. Judgment is expected on Tuesday, the day after the president's deadline expires. We forced people into the informal economy and now propose to punish them for being in it.

So make the Class M permit fast and cheap, and informal trading becomes taxed trading. Implement Shirika on its own timetable. Enforce licensing against everyone equally, which is compliance, not nationality. Fix the credit, the cess and the cartels. And in the East African Community, whose free movement protocol we signed, behave as though we meant it.

None of this is charity. We have spent twenty years arguing that Kenyans should be welcome everywhere, and collecting nearly a trillion shillings a year on that argument. We do not get to make it in Doha and Atlanta and then unmake it on River Road because an election is coming.

Somebody's brother in Juba decided that a broke Kenyan with nowhere to sleep was worth a job. Everything I own descends from that decision. On Monday, this country proposes to make the opposite decision, thousands of times over, against people who are exactly who I was.

Eastleigh settled this argument thirty years ago. That we are still having it tells you it was never about economics.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

The Red Sea just stood up and applauded after seeing how Chelsea's defence parted there

[Gitz  @Gitz__]

Kenya is a grower 🤭

[Sophie Orenge @SophieOrenge]

“The laws of war... are not meant to prevent wars, but to contain excessive deployment of force". 
Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji - ICC

Good Morning ☀️ 🇰🇪

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

Taking his seat in his chambers, the judge faces the opposing lawyers.

Both of you have given me a bribe, he says. You, Tom gave me $15,000.

Harry, gave me $10,000.

The judge reaches into his
pocket, pulls out a check, and hands it to Tom.

I’m returning $5,000, and we'll now decide this case solely on its merits!

[Jungle @jwaweruh]

Kutoka nijue "international" don't care about shit but their interests, I was free. As long as Lil Kipchirchir worship their ring and doesn't mess with their bag, they can even help him end you.

Kupenda hao watu nikama kupenda waitress.

[Wanda Diamond League @Diamond_League]

🎉❗️⏱️WORLD RECORD FOR WANYONYI!

The 🇰🇪 star clocks 2:11.83 in the men's 1000m, breaking Noah Ngeny's 27-year-old record by just 0.13 seconds.

https://t.co/GvVoJhK0By

#MonacoDL🇲🇨
#DiamondLeague
📸 @chiaramontesan2

[Languedoctor @Languedoctor]

As a former sailor I can assure everyone reading this tweet - this is going to take debauchery to a level not seen since Roman times. These guys have 6+ months of unspent paychecks, have been sniffing each others farts and eating dog food. A truly irresponsible command decision.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

The GoPros I placed near the pad delivered some awesome footage of the Falcon Heavy lifting off.

This is one of them I recovered, shot at 120 fps played back at 30fps (1/4 speed).

[Blaze Officiel @B3laze]

maybe wanaipeleka hospitali

[Soselo @happyasembers]

Looks cool but watch any amount of Ukraine war footage and you'll see CQB as intended basically never happens. You just shoot through holes in walls and windows and throw four grenades into every room.

[Ælþemplær @Aelthemplaer]

"Embrace world peace, not because we are enlightened, but because war has become too gay"

[Mathonymics @Mathonymics]

The boulder is easily 8-10m across that puts its weight around 1500-3000 metric tons ( ~ 2600 kg/m³ for typical Himalayan rock density)

to move such a massive object the estimated drag force on that boulder could easily be of the order of 5 million to 20 million newtons

for comparison, Falcon Heavy first stage rocket produces a force of 23 Million newtons!!!

[Mūtamaīyū @_T0t56]

@B3laze Waūga nī kamūtūgo?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Country music star Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.

🔗 https://t.co/7h5X6kFPpQ

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

A permit to make noise has never made sense to me.

Take the Arboretum, for example. We are told loud music will disturb the monkeys and the ecosystem. Fair enough. But somehow, if you pay a fee, you are suddenly allowed to disturb the monkeys.

So the problem is not the noise. The problem is whether you can afford it. Make that make sense.

If the purpose of the fee was to fund noise mitigation by providing some soundproofing, there would at least be a logical argument. But that is not what is happening.

What we have instead is a system that turns environmental protection into a revenue stream. A cash cow.

And if the argument is that the fee limits the number of people who bring loud music, then the policy becomes even more troubling. It does not protect nature equally. It simply says those with money can break the rule, while everyone else cannot.

When a regulation stops being about protecting the public good and starts being about selling exemptions, it is no longer conservation. It is a privilege for sale.

[Mūtamaīyū @_T0t56]

@CarolRadull Ni mbili saa hii