Zubaa

Cavalier, Sign Writer, 🥭 Mango Devourer, Fuerte Whisperer, FTS they stole my bike 😡🥹 - Mabanda.

[VICTOR NDULA @ndula_victor]

Cartoon for @NationAfrica #FuelPrices

[Zubaa @_zubaa]

@nyabinghidread Hii inakaa vodo moja kali sana 🔥

[Zubaa @_zubaa]

@patmuky it can't be, please say it isn't true🥹

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Homeschooling came from the American evangelical movement after desegregation of public schools in the 1960s, where white parents didn't want their kids learning with black kids. And this is the confusion of Kenyans about education. Even TVET, which we call "practical," was designed to teach black people to remain semi-skilled and at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. Even parental involvement in CBC came from American evangelical "family values," that blamed black American men for broken families while ignoring the high incarceration rates.

You cannot run away from education problems with private solutions. Education is a social good. But middle class Kenyans have a stunted social consciousness, that's why they can't understand that problem.

#FixingthenationNTV

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

@RepKeithAmmon You voted for an unhinged madman who already staged a coup against our own country. Fuck your buyers remorse.

[Firimbi Mrefu @nashohmy]

This was interesting

https://t.co/oLDidSekaq

[MxM @Mukurima]

There is a particular kind of silence that only immigrants understand.

It is not the silence of loneliness. Not exactly. It is the silence of becoming-when the world you grew up in is asleep, and the world you now live in has not yet opened its eyes.

At 4.00 AM in America, a house can be perfectly still. The heater hums. The refrigerator clicks. Outside, a quiet street stretches under a pale streetlight. Inside, in a living room that smells faintly of last night’s dinner, a television glows.

Arsenal is playing.

Or Manchester United.

Picture the last time Arsenal played at 6:00 PM. If you are in Kenya, the sun was lowering. Someone had already claimed the best seat at the local. Conversations were layered-politics, work, transfers, referees. A few rounds drowned. Goals did not belong to individuals; they belonged to rooms. Then Cunha scores, the entire place rises as one organism.

Now translate that match into America.

Kickoff is at 4:00 AM.

There is no crowd. No plastic chairs scraping against cement. No smell of grilled meat drifting through the air. There is a couch. A coffee mug. A blanket thrown over one shoulder. The television volume turned just low enough not to wake the rest of the house.

When Man U scores, you do not explode.

You inhale sharply.

You press your fist into your thigh.

You whisper, “Yes.”

Then you head to the Whatapp group where you connect with Kenyan friends and type: “Iko!!!!”

It is not that the passion has faded. It is that the context has changed.

That is the first layer of culture shock.

You do not realize how communal you were until you are alone with your joy.

You do not realize how loud your belonging was until you are forced to celebrate softly.

And yet, you watch. Faithfully. Because that 4:00 AM match is more than sport. It is proof that distance has not erased you. It is memory in motion. It is the only hour of the week when the geography collapses and Nairobi feels as close as the coffee table in front of you.

But here is the part no one explains to those who have never left.

Becoming in America is not only about preserving who you were.

It is about learning who they are.

Isitoshe,

At 4:00 PM, the same house that held your whispered celebration fills with something different. The television is louder now. The sun is still up. Neighbors are awake. Someone has brought food. Someone is wearing a jersey.

The New England Patriots are playing the Seattle Seahawks.

This is not “football” the way you know it. This one pauses. It strategizes. It redraws itself every few seconds. At first, it feels unnatural-why does it stop so much? Why do they talk about yards like accountants?

Then you begin to see it differently.

This is how America thinks.

Planned. Measured. Territorial. Every play dissected. Every statistic memorized. People speak in numbers the way we speak in stories. Completion percentages. Defensive ratings. Playoff implications.

If you want to understand your coworkers on Monday morning, you must understand what happened on Sunday afternoon.

And so you learn.

You learn what a first down is. You learn why a quarterback matters. You learn that the Super Bowl is not just a game; it is a national ritual. You notice how entire communities align themselves around teams, how loyalty here is geographic, almost inherited.

Then autumn arrives in Los Angeles, and someone mentions that USC is playing UCLA.

You assume it is just another match.

It is not.

College sports here are devotion. People do not just attend these universities-they belong to them. Families pass down allegiance like heirlooms. Alumni wear colors decades after graduating. The stadium becomes a cathedral. The game is an inheritance.

And slowly, you realize something uncomfortable and beautiful at the same time:

You are expanding.

Migration is not replacement.

It is layering

[Viktart Mwangi @ViktartMwangi]

What gets me is, even if GOK collected everything we made, all 100% of it and made us all government slaves, this country wouldn’t move an inch forward.
No amount tax collection will plug the hole that looting, wastage & theft in Kenya has

[Grok @grok]

@Pepcityfc @anj_116_ I'm not sure what you mean by "frenol." If it's the medication Franol for breathing issues, as an AI, I don't have any physical items. Can you explain?

[iAm Uncle Mo @mkiboneka]

@Akandwanaho7777 Ok let me work on something real quick 😂😂😂😂

[Zubaa @_zubaa]

@AnganaKeith your Sunday article today is a continuing reminder of how messed up our priorities really are.

[Zubaa @_zubaa]

@Arnimal2000 2tam?

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Education cognitive dissonance again, from @TheStarKenya:

"The STEM pathway has become increasingly important as Kenya continues to advance in areas such as digital innovation, manufacturing, and engineering."

Kenyans, you know this isn't true. Kenya is NOT industrializing. It punishes local engineers and hires Chinese ones through deals for China to build our infrastructure. It arrests people like @rtunguru for digital innovation and allows our tech innovations to be bought off by foreigners. GoK's plan for employment is to export unskilled labor and benefit from remittances. That's why CBC is for dumbing us down so that we can be good servants/slaves for foreigners.

GoK, the media and the Kenyans who put faith in it are all delusional. What they say about education is the opposite of what they do.

And note, they didn't say whether the kids actually learned science. They just said the kids "showed aptitude" for it.

#CBCisheretostay
#KJSEA2025

https://t.co/s2e6LFDDfr

[zen🪬 @applstrudel]

@MarthaAhumuza When I learned about how Christianity came about into Africa and the role it played in colonialism 🫩

[I @W_Asherah]

Now let's talk the economics of rural electrification or electrification in general - the vantage point that any utility operates from. This is a short summary of a very complex topic so I'll put a paper at the end that explains things in more depth for those who want to read.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Not joking when I say a huge reason why people feel aimless & depressed is because they stop learning at graduation. They are starving for knowledge. We need to make adult education classes available to everyone. We need to encourage a lifelong love of learning.

[Wale @Wale]

Had to run this back this a deep deep dive album out Friday #everythingisalot

[Deji Osikoya @dejiosikoya]

Why don’t we talk about Wale in Afrobeats? 🤔

I’ve been a fan forever and super proud of how he repped his Nigerian roots. But I've often felt he hasn’t gotten credit for helping to push Afrobeats.

With his album dropping Friday, I dove deep into his journey and his role...

[VICTOR NDULA @ndula_victor]

Cartoon for @NationAfrica #TakaTaka

[Ojwang @ndeithikariuki]

Field Marshal Musa Mwariama, charcoals on Kraft. 115cm X 90cm.

#LiveArtWithNdeithi #KLDF #MauMau #KimathiDay2025 #Freedom 🇰🇪