Few years ago I had a court case in Kiambu. After I finished the matter in court, I invited fellow lawyers, pupils and client for a cup of coffee. Of course, Kiambu doesn't have a decent coffee shops but we found our way to a restaurant and ordered coffee. The waiter brought hot water and Nescafe sachets. At the back of the restaurant were coffee farms.
Memorable quotes from the sharp-penned Ugandan journalist, commentator, and photographer Timothy Kalyegira .@TimKalyegira who went missing for four days before he was charged on Monday, June 29:
-"In this day and age, ruling people for 40 years is a mark of shame, not genius."
-Ultimately we all die poor. Nobody takes their six-bedroom house to the grave."
-On Uganda's economy: "Primitive accumulation of primitive wealth, by primitive people, for primitive reasons."
-"The only profitable economic activity left is praising the First Family, praising government projects, praising Big Men, [or] running for MP."
-"The people with money don't have brains and the people with brains don't have money."
Men,
Keep your wounds private.
You are not the only one suffering,
If other men were to show you their wounds, you would be shocked.
Every time you expose your wounds of suffering to random people,
You hand people the power to hurt you even more.
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Men,
A man who overcomes lust, gluttony and greed has solved 90% of his problems.
A man's first battle is self-betrayal,
A man's first victory is self-restraint.
The man who can govern himself has the power to command success.
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CORTISOL is the master hormone.
When it is chronically elevated:
• Thyroid function drops.
• Testosterone production stalls.
• Sexual intimacy drops.
• Belly fat accumulates.
• Muscle mass falls.
• Sleep quality deteriorates.
• Gut lining becomes permeable.
Discipline is paramount.
Don't tolerate indiscipline.
Don't accommodate people who lack discipline. They will drag your life into a pit.
If someone lacks discipline, he is also disrespectful, not just to himself, but to you.
Men,
If everyone around her is always the villain, or the bad one, or an enemy,
Or she says people hate her,
Eventually, you will become the next villain in her story, elsewhere.
Avoid her, she is a ticking time bomb
#MasculinitySaturday
Women should know that,
Submission is not silence.
Neither is it slavery nor servitude.
Submission is the wisdom to understand structure.
A home with two captains and no first mate does not sail anywhere.
It will drift and collapse.
Order in a home requires hierarchy.
Hierarchy requires the MAN to lead and the woman to support the lead.
This is not weakness at all, but rather the architecture of the family institution.
When I advocate for seed sovereignty in Kenya, this example from Nigeria illustrates it perfectly.
Communities must always control,breed,share,sell and exchange their indigenous seeds.
Indigenous seeds have been tested and tried through generations and our climate.
Between the boomers and millennials, there is a generation that is the cause of our problems.
Gen X.
Born between 1965 and 1980.
They are the parents of ZILLENIALS and Gen Z.
These are the people addicted to evangelical churches, classic FM and Facebook.
They still read newspapers and tune in to the BBC at 6PM.
They are rabidly tribal, worship permanent job employment, and so they forge academic and professional documents to ascend lucrative job groups.
They don't want to retire; they are career employees.
They are the most toxic managers at work with outdated ideas.
Their leadership style is holding daily office meetings, and since someone taught them about Zoom, they also hold virtual meetings even on holidays.
These meetings amount to nothing but them reminding employees about appraisal forms and reporting time.
They are extremely corrupt.
They bribe their way through opportunities. They dislike meritocracy and openly hate people who qualify through hard work and merit.
They sell ancestral land to disinherit their children yet their fathers bequeathed them free land.
At home, if it is a man, his wife has conquered him. She runs the house, and he is so scared to confront her.
If it is a woman, she is endlessly angry, chaotic and choleric, but so holier than thou on Sunday in church.
They teach their children bad manners because they want them to become rich overnight.
The Gen X are the root cause of our political, economic, and social collapse.
This is the "hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing" generation.
Docile generation!
Men,
Don't be fascinated by those who show their flashy lifestyle,
• Expensive wear
• High-end vehicles
• Elegant apartments
Most of them are homosexuals, drug peddlers & criminals.
Fake richness is noisy,
Genuine wealth is calm.
Walk your race.
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@nimrod_josh@IEBCKenya I wrote to @IEBCKenya immediately after the conclusion of the 2017 general election. Chebukati replied saying it is 2022. I responded showing him the error. He ignored my question despite numerous reminders up to 2020.
I didn't have wherewithal to file the matter in court
Everyone is waiting for your downfall.
Everyone is waiting for the right condition to insult you.
Don't give them the opportunity.
Tighten your boundaries and close the doors.
When a MAN falls, don't celebrate.
Don't mock their struggles.
Sit. Pause. Learn.
Men learn through other men's experiences. Wins and losses are vital lessons.
Listen. Learn. Live.
Men,
Minimize your social contact with your woman.
Camping yourself in your house gossiping with your woman is disgusting.
Go out there and build your frame.
Be scarce.
Scarcity strengthens the bond of your relationship.
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