A-nene

Recognizing lived experiences from below🕳️ that can expand/ shrink as they tell of safety, resistance & witnessing of new freedoms/liberation.

[A-nene @a_nene8]

"...Soul is the graceful survival under impossible circumstances.Soul is the part of us that energizes us to go for our highest ethical and spiritual vision of who we can be. When ... turned into just another commodity..., It's power to transform lives is diminished."@bellhooks

[Ian Keyaer @ian_keyaer]

I was shot 3 times in the back outside Parliament on June 25, 2024. I was among those shot that day and I was the only one who survived. My name was even listed among those who had died. The media did not expect me to make it.

We went out together, my friends never came back. I carry them with me every day. May they rest in peace. 🙏

Over 2 years later I have refused to give up. I have lived through a severe spinal cord injury, chronic pain, sepsis, bladder stones and countless hospital admissions.

I am now asking for help with the costs that come with my recovery; Physiotherapy, medication, follow-up appointments and other medical expenses.

My biggest goal is to keep working on my recovery and regain my independence.

Please support me:

https://t.co/UFydS4BpUV

God bless you. 🙏

@Honeyfarsafi @VOCALAfrica_ @LarryMadowo @AmnestyKenya

[A-nene @a_nene8]

#JasonArday

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

This is your chance to become the chair of the eugenics and race science department at Harvard.

[A-nene @a_nene8]

Every day of August 2026 was a horrific spectacle: Jason Arday a Black academic, put on trial by the media & the DEI backlash. This was an Academic 'Black November'. His departure is political erasure.
9 May 1985- 14 August 2026🍃
#GreatandUnfortunate #BlackExcellence 🫶🏿

[Njeri 🇰🇪 @rtunguru]

Idk why we let this hashtag die in the first place btw. #RutoMustGo

[A-nene @a_nene8]

@muriaso He is Giving KYM

[A-nene @a_nene8]

The Boy's Club architecture influences the design of our Metro's.Its power & money organizes public spaces of bread+ butter, including the transport network. As deliberately non-functional,inconvient,+hazardous + punishing. These designs are deliberate/ intentional. #Urbanism

[David Nahinga Π 🇰🇪✊🏿 @dnahinga]

Good people,

This is a Market in Benin (Marche Ganhi) sharee by a good friend.

Compare this to the Apartment Markets in Kenya.

Tulikosea wapi lakini?

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

A young Kenyan girl is depicted with her pet, a small deer, in 1909.

[A-nene @a_nene8]

🔊 Arranging +directing for 10,000 people to sit on grass is not OVERSIGHT. It's contempt! It is a clear caste system in plain view. Where power sits or stands to Lord over a subjugated class. This is how power reminds us of our "place"/ where we "belong" in cold,& open grounds

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

President Ruto hosts over 10,000 Nairobi Security Guards at State House, Nairobi

[Kerry Sinanan @kerry_sinanan]

White academia is built on theft, extraction and erasure. Its function is to maintain hierarchies that remain relatively unchanged ever since Thomas Jefferson demeaned Phillis Wheatley as an imitator without imagination despite her sublime poetic achievements-or because of them.

[Sean Jacobs @seanhjacobs]

“People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: It is people who were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and they were made into slaves" [Abdullah Ibrahim].

[Koome Mwafrika. @KoometheChris]

History remembers August as the month when the oppressed in Haiti transformed resistance into revolution. Their victory changed the world forever and exposed the myth that empires were invincible. Every generation must decide whether it will preserve freedom or surrender it.

[A-nene @a_nene8]

2007 Triggers 🫦

[E.M.kariuki @muchogokariuki]

People of the Kikuyu nation, open your eyes! In this single week the Kalenjin, and especially the Nandi, have raised their voices once more, demanding that the Kikuyu vacate every acre of land they hold in the Rift Valley. These are not idle words. These are the same signals, the same rainbow that once appeared before the storm of 2007. We have seen the pattern before: houses set aflame, families driven from their homes, blood spilled on the soil of this nation.

[Mr Wanjala @oneswanzala]

Dr Kizza Besigye was earning well as a doctor at Aga Khan Hospital Nairobi and Kenyatta National Hospital when he decided to go to the bush to become the personal doctor to the then guerrilla leader Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

Kizza had fled to Nairobi in 1981 via Malaba border to escape political persecution as activists of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's Uganda Patriotic Movement became a target of the new Obote regime.

In Nairobi, he was accommodated by his sister, who worked at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for Uganda Airlines. Nairobi wasn't really new to the 25 year old Kizza because he had already been to the city on a number of occasions to visit the sister.

The first thing he did was to apply to the Kenya Medical Board for registration so that he could practise medicine in Kenya. The process wasn't really difficult because Kenya was in need of doctors, and furthermore, Makerere trained doctors like him were greatly valued.

After registration, he applied for a job at Aga Khan, which he got. And also worked at Kenyatta. The only thing he complained about was that the work in the two hospitals was hectic, especially for junior doctors like him at that time.

"We were I think used and possibly abused in terms of the amount of work we were supposed to do. Sometimes, we would work for almost 24 hours without rest," he recalled.

Nevertheless, he appreciated that the pay was really good and that they were offered free accommodation.

During those days, Kenya had a large number of Ugandan exiles, most of whom struggled to get work permits. Kizza recalled one man who had held a very senior government position in Uganda but fled to Nairobi, where he lived as a refugee. The man used to walk from one corner of Nairobi to Aga Khan Hospital daily to beg Kizza for some little money for food. Kizza also recalled how Kenya police used to harass Ugandan refugees.

In 1982, despite the good pay and free food and accommodation, Kizza resigned from his job in Nairobi and headed to the bush where he became a personal doctor to the then guerilla leader Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for free . His job was also to treat injured fighters.

Asante ya punda ni mateke. The same Museveni is now determined to see Kizza languish to death in prison.

[Agora Discourse @AgoraCFR]

https://t.co/2qsGjq7rU2

[A-nene @a_nene8]

The complicity issue 🪇 Free Dr.Kizza Besigye

[Nada Andersen @NadaAndersen]

All of us have blood on our hands. We have collectively killed Kizza Besigye, and we aren't even sorry.

[A-nene @a_nene8]

29 July 2026 🇺🇬"I will not allow this nonsense to continue...You have abused Our Country enough...Our constitution. Stop It! "-Dr.Kizza Besigye 🥹🖤☘️

[Muzzukulu wa Katongole @AdolfSemata]

Dr. Kizza Besigye collapses in court. He faces a treason trial before Justice Emmanuel Baguma.

[A-nene @a_nene8]

I’m of the view it is a humiliation ritual. Where the state breaches inviolability and conditions the citizen(s) to a bestiality of suffering, hunger, withdrawal of justice, life, &dignity. An extraction of the soul, a complete collapse of any freedom+ sovereignty.

[Henry Kabogo 💧 ❄ 🇰🇪 @Kabogo_Henry]

Genuine question for Ugandans :

What is the worst thing that happens if Dr. Kizza Besigye walks free today?

He's 70. He last contested in 2016. He collapsed in a courtroom this afternoon.

What exactly is the state afraid of?

[Sifuna Mashinani @M_ama]

I’m still angry when I remember people went to Medschool, finished, lacked internship placements and became mama fuas! In a country where we don’t have enough medics!! But pesa yote waibe! The truth is that #RutoMustGo

[A-nene @a_nene8]

This "Innovate"a literal translation is Kwani hauwezi fanya Ka Biashara, wewe si entrepreneurial? ( Often said in depths of sarcasm & disgust). Partly explains how + why top minds + gifted persons end up unjustly in informal economies or lost in absence.

[Mandela Onchwati @mandelaonchwati]

Kenya has enough educated young people.What we don't have are enough opportunities. Stop telling graduates to "innovate" while making it harder to do business