Amb. Macharia Kamau

Ambassador Macharia Kamau. Personal Views. Retweets ≠ endorsements.

[Amb. Macharia Kamau @AmbMKamau]

“The adoption of the #SDGs in 2015 was a defining moment in @UN history and no one is better placed than Ambassador Macharia Kamau to tell the story of how we achieved this transformative vision for a better world.” Ban Ki-moon, 8th UN Secretary-General https://t.co/GEjC9szekv

[Professor Peter Kagwanja @profkagwanja]

Kenya is back to the late 1980s and 1990s When mushroom politicians close to the Moi regime like Kuria Kanyingi and others displayed briefcases of money as the economy struggled in the ICU.

[Mia Amor Mottley @miaamormottley]

In 2026, I cannot believe we are being asked to respond to the suggestion that the descendants of the enslaved should pay for the machinery that oppressed them.

The Caribbean does not owe Britain for slavery, for colonial extraction, or for laws that treated African people as chattel. We are not asking for charity. We are asking for justice, and history itself has already told the truth.

Those who wish to speak on this matter should first take the time to read enough history to understand it. The Caribbean will not be used as a prop for anyone’s politics. We know who we are, we know what was done, and we will continue to speak for repair with clarity and dignity.

[Amb. Macharia Kamau @AmbMKamau]

Flew over night #KQ business class again. They still don’t have toothpaste, toothbrushes, no toiletries. No eye blinders, no earplugs. No pajamas. The only thing you get is toilet paper. This has been the case all year. Nothing has improved. Very expensive ticket. Why?

[Professor Peter Kagwanja @profkagwanja]

Kenya’s young people have chosen to be tribeless! Tribalism is s parochial barbaric ideology that offers no solution to the economic problems of poverty, joblessness or high cost of living. Let your tribe be Kenyan!

[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

Nairobi, final reflections.

Despite Nairobi being a haven of NGO work, impact funds, climate workshops and every species of grant funded virtue, one hears far less of the heavy socialist sermonising that so often drifts through Southern Africa. Why is that? I didn’t find a Karl Marx road as we did in Maputo….

Perhaps Kenya’s commercial bloodstream is simply too strong. Nairobi may host the NGO cathedral, but outside its stained glass windows the city is hustling: traders, founders, developers, agents, boda boda, financiers, exporters, coders and small businessmen all trying to make a shilling before the next traffic jam. The traffic jams here in the middle of high traffic and rain are extortion writ large. But the uber driver earning thrice the fee wasn’t complaining. Nor should we, but the wait time at a restaurant can stretch up to two hours, with the usual retort of “I’m almost there” serving as a signal to order the next dawa.

The intellectual mood in Nairobi is softened by enterprise. Even the social impact crowd seems more likely to speak the language of scale, platforms, mobile money and market access than nationalisation, redistribution and state led salvation.

Southern Africa, by contrast, still carries a heavier liberation era grammar. Politics there often begins with the state, the party, the struggle and the promise that history owes someone something. Nairobi feels more impatient with that theatre. It has its own dysfunctions, certainly, but its instinct is more transactional, more entrepreneurial, more “where is the opportunity?” than “where is the manifesto?” That may be why, even in a city full of NGOs, capitalism still manages to keep the microphone.

I like it here….

[Professor Peter Kagwanja @profkagwanja]

Machiavelli shows why electoral waves give birth to weak leaders, the TUGEGES. Faced with the overwhealming power of foolish fanatical cowds, the wise and knowledgeable stand no chance. Profound.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

This morning at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame received board members of Equity Group Holdings Limited and Equity Group Foundation, who are in Rwanda for their quarterly board meetings. Led by James Mwangi, CEO of Equity Group Holdings Limited, the delegation shared the group’s vision to support the digital economy and financial innovation as a means to contribute to economic growth, expand regional trade, and promote innovative financing solutions for citizens in Rwanda, across the region and beyond.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame meets with African Heads of State and private sector leaders gathered in Kigali for the 13th edition of the Africa CEO Forum.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

“We can’t just be people who are waiting to be ripped off, by somebody who is shrewd enough and has the power, we must be able to say, “No”. President Kagame | Africa CEO Forum 2026

[Gita Gopinath @GitaGopinath]

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

[Africa CEO Forum @africaceoforum]

🎙️ @PaulKagame took the Africa CEO Forum stage and spoke plainly about what much of the world still finds difficult to name.

🗣️ His charge was clear. The same global powers that lecture Africa on democracy and human rights are, with the other hand, stripping the continent of what it owns. Sanctions, he reminded the room, are not always the instruments of principle they claim to be; more often they reward the highest bidder, falling on whoever offers less and sparing whoever extracts more. The cynicism, he noted, is not new. In an older century, kings handed territories to their in-laws and children to administer as they pleased, and today the same logic operates under different vocabulary, with a foreign power simply telling a chosen proxy to go and take whatever it wants from a given region.

💎 The deeper point landed hardest. For too long, Africa has played the role of a continent waiting to be ripped off by anyone shrewd enough and powerful enough to arrive at its door, and that posture has to end. "We must be able to say no," the Rwandan President insisted, before urging African leaders, public and private, to begin assigning their own value to their own assets rather than accepting whatever value others choose to recognise.

🌍 It is the question this year's ACF places at the very centre of its programme. Pan-African ownership, resource sovereignty, and the refusal to mistake openness for vulnerability are no longer aspirational language. They are the operating conditions for whatever African economic future emerges from the next decade. Kagame's intervention was not a lament about the world as it is, but a call to the continent's leadership to stop negotiating from a position of permanent disadvantage.

Kigali, 14–15 May 2026.

➡️ Follow our live: https://t.co/oOz8if7sPy

#ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum

[Amb. Macharia Kamau @AmbMKamau]

Congratulations Prof Owaya and colleagues👏🏽👏🏽

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Africa’s food supply has grown 6.2 times over the past 60 years while population grew 2.6 times, a signal that large-scale systems can work on the continent.
https://t.co/CoOcgrXCPl

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

WOW!! Russians celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Patrice Lumumba.

Have you ever seen that in ANY western country?

[United Nations Peacebuilding and Peace Support @UNPeacebuilding]

The Secretary-General @antonioguterres welcomed the 8th Advisory Group of his Peacebuilding Fund to New York, alongside ASG @ElizabethSpehar.

[United Nations Peacebuilding and Peace Support @UNPeacebuilding]

Chaired by Amb. Macharia Kamau @AmbMKamau, the Group met for its 4th session. Members pointed to opportunities ahead, including the new UN Peacebuilding and Peace Support Office and the inaugural #PeacebuildingWeek (22-26 June).

[Ken Opalo @kopalo]

In which I caution against unnecessary catastrophizing about African economies:

African economies are more resilient than ever https://t.co/LTxyxgtP61 via @ft

[Amb. Macharia Kamau @AmbMKamau]

Attending Next Milan Forum. Listened to World Bank President and Microsoft Global Affairs President. I will speak tomorrow on future of global negotiations

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A 90-year-old woman in Kenya finally agreed to marry her 95-year-old partner after 64 years together, joking, “Men can be unpredictable—I needed to be certain.”