Alesi Adrale

[Zadig @piebyfour]

“The world belongs to those who refuse to disappear.”

– Ghassan Kanafani

[Alesi Adrale @Adralesi]

@jonusrnm23732 @MarxoidNess The danger of signalling 1 person to take all blame cloaks their supporting cast & they can escape equal accountability. E.g those who gave/ carried out orders, helped invent, develop, implement & review plans. Those who pushed propaganda, secured financing, reaped dividends etc.

[Alesi Adrale @Adralesi]

@jonusrnm23732 @MarxoidNess It's the same way Hitler's name was used to launder the deeds of all other German state actors & their beneficiaries. USA used them for space programs, USSR in scientific research, EU & Israel as spies & military advisors, Argentina & Brazil as immigrants.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We are under serious psychological warfare. We are being groomed to accept the most serious atrocities I’ve seen in a long time. We are grossly unprepared.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

I think we east and southern Africans need to graduate from this argument. Our foreparents made it for rhetorical value, now we need to graduate to a philosophical and historically grounded argument.

My dear Africans, when Europeans were saying that they discovered a lake or mountain in Africa, they didn't mean nobody had seen it before. They meant that Africans were nobodies. That's what was contained in the Papal Bulls between 1452 and 1493 on the doctrine of discovery. And it was applied to indigenous peoples of the Americas first. By the time it reached Africa, 4 centuries had passed.

The Popes said that "Christians" (meaning Europeans) had the right to visit other lands, and if they found resources they wanted there, they could consider it "terra nullius" (land of nobody). That doctrine justified the evictions, massacres and enslavement of the people (the non-Christians, aka savages) already living on the land. It wasn't just about name change.

The doctrine continued to be used in court judgements of settler colonies and international law up to this century, and Pope Francis only repudiated it in 2021. And when you think of it, the government of Kenya is still using that doctrine for evictions for affordable housing, mineral sites and wildlife conservancies.

It's nice to make fun of absurdities in Western logic, but now let's chew the hard historical and philosophical implications.

And with all due respect to Miriam Makeba, this isn't a question she should have been asked. Remember Malcolm X pointed out that it's only when it comes to black people that entertainers are expected to articulate political positions.

We need to avoid confusing rhetorical rebuttals for political philosophy. We need to be careful to distinguish what is rhetorically clever and what is politically enlightening.

[HAROLD👑 @HaroldTurijay]

Technically after seizing power, one ought to cease resisting and be accountable to the law, the people and sane legacies.

After 40 years, the notion of "The Resistance" has the same effect as the autoimmune disease- eating itself up.

[Ms. Mamas 🥵 @_Byarugaba_]

And language is very important please mob VIOLENCE not “justice”. This was an act of violence against the deceased.

[Alesi Adrale @Adralesi]

@Rhopunzel @CSMFHT Technically he was referred to by his Latin name Marcus Antonius. It's the anglicisation of Roman Latin names which gives us such names e.g Octavian(us), Hadrian(us), Trajan(Traianus), Pompey(Pompeius), Virgil (Vergilius), Livy(Livius), Pliny(Plinius), Ovid (Ovidius)

[Alesi Adrale @Adralesi]

@I_Njambii & it doesn't even necessarily mean getting straight As but ably understanding & discussing reasons for resisting systems, factors impeding their goals & their historical origins & how the system upholds them, how they affect daily lives & cripple futures. Not just catchy slogans.

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

"I hate protesters"

where do you think your clean water, 5 day work week, seat belts, child labor laws, and right to vote came from?

[MrBlack™ @KE_MrBlack]

If you’ve ever doubted that poverty is criminalized, talk to the people who were beaten for not having textbooks or the school uniforms their parents simply couldn’t afford.

[Dilawar Karwan @RashmanTheHorse]

Since when does mass trauma make a society more compassionate. Usually a society just goes insane.

[Dusty Sahara @NoCountryHere]

Lugha ni moja.

[Alesi Adrale @Adralesi]

@JacobNabende @Denis_Jjuuko Prince Kiweewa Luswata

[Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde]

“Poverty stops poor people from enjoying poems, deep thoughts, science, or cool tech. It keeps eyes on just surviving.”

[Alesi Adrale @Adralesi]

To all those souls out there who have sadly learnt that @anam_sifa is no longer with us, please reach out for the link to the group to coordinate the effort to bid her farewell, fundraise and organise a candle lighting ceremony in Nairobi all in her honour. She rests in power.

[Alesi Adrale @Adralesi]

@shadmziki Share somewhere I can send it.