Kenyans online have started sharing videos in remembrance of those who were killed during the June 25, 2024 and June 25, 2025 protests, as they prepare to mark the anniversary tomorrow.
What a shame!!
If Africa has learned anything, it is that major foreign interests rarely arrive announcing themselves for what they are. They usually arrive wrapped in the language of partnership, development, security and helping us solve a problem🚶🏿♀️
So you’re telling me that out of all the MPs in Parliament, not a single one has the courage to table an impeachment motion against Ruto?
Not one? 🚶🏿♀️
Watu wako mafutani.
Kenyans are currently paying more income tax as individuals than companies pay in corporate tax.
PAYE currently stands at up to 35%, compared to 30% corporate tax, leaving workers with less take-home pay.
The proposed 5% PAYE reduction would help correct the imbalance, ease pressure on households, and improve disposable income for workers.
A fairer tax system should support both workers and economic growth.
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One of the older kids in the hood asked me the other day what the point was of being honest and doing the right thing (not doing assignments with ChatGPT, not lying, not stealing, not using company/public funds on yourself, not promising nonsense in 6 months' time, etc).
Because, as far as they could tell, there is plenty of evidence that it is precisely the people doing these things who come out on top. If anything, those on the straight and narrow are on a path of pain, inconvenience, and loss.
I thought about it for a minute and then said rather than give a canned, cliche response, let me take a few days to think about it, because, to be honest, I too am struggling to be OK in a world where unashamed scoundrels are the ones running the show, leering at us daily from podiums
The debate between Gen Zs and millennials is totally imbalanced because we are comparing people at very different stages of life, under very different burdens, and then pretending the answers are already clear.
Gen Zs are right to say they are bold, outspoken and less willing to tolerate humiliation, especially in workplaces, politics and society. That is a good thing, and Kenya has benefited from that courage. But millennials are also not weak simply because many learnt how to endure bad systems, survive quietly, keep jobs, swallow pride and carry responsibilities without making noise every day.
The truth is that we may not get the real answer now. We will only know when Gen Zs are in their 30s and 40s, with children in school, ageing parents to support, rent or mortgages to pay, medical bills arriving without warning, loans hanging over them, and entire households depending on one salary.
That is when life tests political courage, workplace courage and social courage differently. It is easy to say people should walk away from oppressive spaces when you are mostly carrying yourself. It becomes more complicated when your resignation, rebellion or public confrontation can immediately affect your children, your parents, your spouse and everyone who eats from your table.
So maybe millennials were tough in survival while Gen Zs are tough in confrontation, but the debate is not complete until both generations have faced the same weight of adult responsibility.
Let us wait and see whether the same fire remains when life adds school fees, hospital bills, dependants, debt and the fear of one wrong move collapsing a whole family.
Until then, this argument is interesting, but it is not settled......
For your information I have a cracked ulna bone on my fore arm, a dislocated shoulder and a cracked right femur as we speak.
You can here in the video below a cop chasing me.
I had to threaten him I was recording live so he can back down, he didn't.
Right after they knocked this guy down, and I was busy trying to rescucitate him, the cop and another one followed me and clobbered the hell out me for recording them beating up protesters.
Several people have been killed in protest violence in Kenya where transport workers blocked roads over government fuel price hikes that took the cost of diesel to record levels.
Things just got awkward live on TV.
Opiyo Wandayi claimed they had agreed a deal with matatu operators to end the strike and even said there were no questions only for one of the matatu leaders to go live moments later and completely contradict him.
This is exactly the kind of courage Kenya needs.
Speak the truth publicly. Don’t let leaders rewrite reality while cameras are rolling.
Would an African president shut up a noisy audience in France the way Macron did in Nairobi? Some Africans are outraged about the French president's paternalistic tone.
But some praise him for showing leadership. Was it rude, or was it the right thing to do?