Titus Barasa Wekesa

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This woman quietly paid his family’s rent for nearly ten years after his father died, providing the stability he needed to keep pursuing his dream. Years later, he grew up to become a doctor.

After Okechukwu Nwosu lost his father, his family was left grieving and facing an uncertain future. Before his death, his father had asked a trusted family friend, Sister Lillian, to look after them.

She took that request to heart.

For almost a decade, Sister Lillian quietly covered the family’s rent month after month, without seeking recognition or expecting anything in return.

That consistent support allowed Okechukwu to concentrate on his education and ultimately pursue a career in medicine. He graduated from St. George’s University in 2022 and later began training as an anesthesiology resident.

Years afterward, he publicly expressed gratitude to the woman whose steady kindness helped shape his path.

Sometimes transforming a life does not require a single dramatic gesture. Sometimes it simply means showing up, again and again, until someone has the opportunity to build a better future.

[Eric @amerix]

@Evalunar_ @tweethert You are not a MAN.

Stay away from a man's talk.

[Frantz Fanon @waweru]

An established geopolitical truism is that every imperial hegemon regards itself as the greatest and most benign. One of the more interesting albeit disturbing things one sees on African twitter is the tendency to ascribe virtue to hegemons who have the boot on ur necks. Why?😳

[Ana חַנָּה 🤍🇮🇱 @ForeverIsrael7]

🧵THREAD: Christianity and its Jewish Roots.

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Christianity did not begin as a new religion.

Jesus Christ was Jewish—born into Israel, raised in Torah, teaching in synagogues.

He never said: “Start a new religion.”

He spoke within the covenant given to Israel.

[AMASEEDSOWER @DrShayPhD]

From Genesis to Revelation, the ENTIRE Bible, including every BOOK is about JESUS!

1. Genesis [the promised Seed]
2. Exodus [the Passover Lamb]
3. Leviticus [the atoning sacrifice]
4. Numbers [the lifted serpent]
5. Deuteronomy [the Prophet like Moses]
6. Joshua [the Captain of our salvation]
7. Judges [our Deliverer]
8. Ruth [our Kinsman Redeemer]
9. 1 Samuel [the rightful King]
10. 2 Samuel [the rightful King]
11. 1 Kings [the rightful King]
12. 2 Kings [the rightful King]
13. 1 Chronicles [the rightful King]
14. 2 Chronicles [the rightful King]
15. Ezra [the Restorer]
16. Nehemiah [the Rebuilder]
17. Esther [the Preserver]
18. Job [our Redeemer who lives]
19. Psalms [the suffering and reigning Messiah]
20. Proverbs [the Wisdom of God]
21. Ecclesiastes [meaning and hope beyond the sun]
22. Song of Solomon [the Bridegroom’s love]
23. Isaiah [the suffering Servant]
24. Jeremiah [the righteous Branch]
25. Lamentations [the Man of sorrows]
26. Ezekiel [the Shepherd of Israel]
27. Daniel [the Son of Man]
28. Hosea [faithful Husband]
29. Joel [the outpoured Spirit promise]
30. Amos [the Judge of the nations]
31. Obadiah [the Lord who rules]
32. Jonah [risen after three days]
33. Micah [born in Bethlehem]
34. Nahum [the stronghold in trouble]
35. Habakkuk [the just shall live by faith]
36. Zephaniah [the mighty One who saves]
37. Haggai [the Desire of all nations]
38. Zechariah [pierced Savior]
39. Malachi [Sun of Righteousness]
40. Matthew [the Messiah revealed]
41. Mark [the suffering Servant King]
42. Luke [the Son of Man, Savior for all]
43. John [the Son of God]
44. Acts [the risen Lord proclaimed]
45. Romans [salvation by grace through faith]
46. 1 Corinthians [Christ our foundation]
47. 2 Corinthians [Christ our comfort and strength]
48. Galatians [Christ our freedom]
49. Ephesians [Christ our unity]
50. Philippians [Christ our joy]
51. Colossians [Christ supreme]
52. 1 Thessalonians [Christ our coming hope]
53. 2 Thessalonians [Christ our victorious King]
54. 1 Timothy [Christ our Mediator]
55. 2 Timothy [Christ our faithful Judge]
56. Titus [Christ our blessed hope]
57. Philemon [Christ our reconciler]
58. Hebrews [Christ our High Priest]
59. James [living faith]
60. 1 Peter [suffering Savior, living hope]
61. 2 Peter [truth that steadies]
62. 1 John [God is love, Christ our assurance]
63. 2 John [walk in truth]
64. 3 John [walk in love]
65. Jude [contend for the faith]
66. Revelation [the King returning]

From the first promise in Genesis 3:15 to the Lamb on the throne in Revelation 22, the Bible is one unified story of Salvation through Jesus. It is a map that tells how we became separated from Eden and how we can get back to Eden.

[סקיצה מזרחית @Skitzamizrahit]

CAN 150 MEN OF STEEL HOLD BACK AN ARMY OF 1,200 MONSTERS ? 🇮🇱

October 1973. Yom Kippur. While Jews were wrapped in their prayer shawls, the enemy launched a massive surprise attack to annihilate the Jewish State. On the northern border, 1,200 heavy Syrian tanks stormed the Golan Heights. Standing between them and the civilian towns of the Galilee? A mere 150 Israeli tanks of the 7th Armored Brigade.

They fought for four days and four nights without sleep. Ammunition was completely depleted. Tanks were burning. Commanders were dying inside their turrets. The enemy had advanced night-vision technology, our boys had to fire blindly at the flashes of enemy cannons in the pitch black.

When the Syrian hordes were moments away from breaking the defensive line and pouring into Israel, Commander Avigdor Kahalani didn't order a retreat. He drove his battered tank to the very crest of the hill, completely exposing himself to a wall of enemy fire, and ordered his last surviving, exhausted men to follow him into the teeth of the enemy.

They didn't blink. The Jewish lions charged forward and broke the enemy's spine. The Syrians fled in terror, leaving hundreds of burning metal carcasses in what is now known forever as the "Valley of Tears."

The world constantly looks at the sheer numbers of our enemies and thinks we can be destroyed. They forget that you cannot calculate the spirit of a Jew fighting for his only home.

STOP TREMBLING AT THE SIZE OF OUR ENEMIES. Drive up to the Golan Heights, stand at the Valley of Tears, and teach your children that the blood of the Maccabees still fuels the engines of the IDF! 🦁🔥

[Frantz Fanon @waweru]

I periodically see on African twitter people crying about the need for new ideologically grounded and geopolitically savvy leaders .. and I always wonder what are WE🫵 doing in our individual & communal spaces to identify, fund & nurture new leaders? DO Something!!✊🏿✊🏿

[Kaizen @kaizen_ke]

@ehdande Except AG Dorcus Oduor, those JSC panelists seem not to understand the reality of land transactions today.

because of rotten land registries, a title deed issued by GoK is not necessarily proof of ownership.

[Edwin H. Dande @ehdande]

Another good one for Justice Sila on land titles:

If you have bought or deal in land, watch 👇🏽this. It’s not the TITLE DEED that matters, it’s the ROOT OF TITLE that matters.

1.We have become so corrupt that the courts have concluded that we can no longer rely on what is at the lands registry to know who owns the land, we have to go to the root of title.

2.Basically, what is in the land registry is valid, only to the extent there is no dispute on the title. The moment there is a dispute, and there is more than one title, then the registry ceases to have conclusive meaning. We then have to dig into the root of that title. Basically go back in time and see where the title originated from, how it has changed hands overtime to its current claim. Anyone who bought fraudulent land in the process is screwed because they bought fraud not land, even if they did a search at the registry. It does even matter which land was registered first.

https://t.co/OyeWGtzBAv is supposed to make sense. When fraud is so prevalent, and even originates from the very people supposed to protect us, such as land registry staff, then the law must evolve to protect the public. Root of title is going to protect the public from its corrupt self. Sometimes a mad man is restrained to avoid self harm.

4.And the Good Judge has explained that it does NOT replace the Torrens system, it clarifies Torrens in that when there are two tiles, its Torrens itself that begins to search for the root of title it had all along assumed to be conclusive. Hence there is no conflict between the Stanchart Manchester vs Dina Management cases.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

@CorcelMarie 4+8≠15.5

[Yoweri K Museveni @KagutaMuseveni]

I am happy to have completed 143 rallies across all districts of Uganda. These were not just rallies but celebrations. People came joyfully with their families. Uganda is now ranked among the five fastest-growing economies in the world, and with oil production coming on stream, we shall move even faster. This is clear progress.

I have heard threats of violence from the opposition. I urge Ugandans not to be intimidated. Go out and vote. Anyone who attempts to disrupt our peace will be dealt with firmly. Peace is guaranteed. I also remind our NRM structures at village level to mobilise in small groups. If each leader moves with three others, the numbers will speak for themselves.

[Andreas Huebner @_AndreasHuebner]

I prophesy over everyone reading this — January 10, 2026 is a line in the spirit.

The waiting season is OVER.
The delay has lost its authority.
The financial pressure you felt was never permanent.
The Lord says:
“I am interrupting cycles that lasted too long.
I am cancelling silent resistance.
I am releasing movement where there was stagnation.”
What was blocked behind invisible walls will now FLOW.
What slowed you down quietly will now accelerate loudly.
What looked like ‘almost’ will now become ‘suddenly’.

This is not random increase.
This is RECOVERY with momentum.
Money will locate you.
Opportunities will recognize you.
Provision will respond to your NAME.
Angels are being reassigned to areas you stopped praying about.
Doors you thought were closed forever will open without explanation.
Now say this out loud — don’t whisper it:

“I step into divine acceleration.
My finances are responding to heaven.
My accounts are aligning.
My harvest is catching up — in Jesus’ Name.”

Type AMEN if this resonates —
and repost it as an act of agreement.
Someone else’s breakthrough is tied to your obedience.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

A secular Jew asked me why I was converting to Judaism.

Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another age? Did I truly believe those traditions were still relevant?

My answer is simple: Judaism survived because of its traditions, not despite them.

What modernity often dismisses as outdated ritual is precisely what preserved Judaism when empires collapsed, borders shifted, and entire civilizations vanished. Judaism did not endure by accident. It endured because it anchored human life to meaning, discipline, and moral responsibility. Where others dissolved into myth or memory, Judaism remained a living system.

Long before these ideas became fashionable, Judaism introduced principles we now take for granted. It insisted that no human being stands above moral accountability. That power does not grant impunity. That compassion must extend beyond convenience, to the vulnerable, the weak, even to animals. That rest is not a luxury reserved for the privileged but a commandment binding all. And that time itself must be structured, sanctified, and directed.

Judaism brought order into human existence. It introduced a calendar, a rhythm, a weekly reset, a moral framework, and a sense of mission. It taught that freedom without discipline becomes chaos, and that meaning does not emerge spontaneously. Meaning must be cultivated, practiced, and renewed.

Is this irrelevant in the 21st century?

People still lie to escape responsibility. They still seek shortcuts in moments of pressure. They are still cruel to others and to themselves. And they still need to be reminded that life is not arbitrary, that human beings are accountable to something higher than appetite, ego, or ideology.

Judaism insists that above us is a source, a Creator, from which both our unity and our diversity emerge. Humanity may number billions today, but the Torah begins with one. With origins. With Bereshit. Because to understand where we are going, we must understand where we come from.

The Torah does not offer abstract philosophy detached from lived reality. It tells stories, human, flawed, and timeless stories, that illuminate the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. It speaks of jealousy, power, failure, responsibility, repentance, and moral struggle. That is precisely why those stories endure. They are not frozen in time. They speak to every generation anew.

Judaism, then, is not a relic. It is a system of moral memory. It is a civilizational framework that trains human beings to pause, reflect, restrain themselves, and choose responsibility over impulse. In an age obsessed with speed, gratification, and self-expression, Judaism insists on restraint, reflection, and continuity.

That is why the question of relevance misses the point.

If Judaism were merely symbolic, merely cultural, merely metaphorical, it would not have survived. And if it were irrelevant, Zionism itself would be unintelligible. What is Zionism without Judaism, without the original story, the language, the laws, the calendar, and the covenant that bind a people to a specific land and history? Why should Israel exist precisely where it does if Judaism is nothing more than an abstract faith detached from place, memory, and obligation?

Strip Judaism of its traditions, and what remains is not enlightenment, but erosion. Without obligation, there is no continuity. Without practice, there is no identity. Without memory, there is no people.

For me, Judaism is not an abstraction. It is not a costume, nor nostalgia, nor a political statement. It is identity carried through time, through exile, through Babylon and beyond. It is woven into history, culture, memory, and continuity. Anyone who takes a DNA test in the Middle East understands this instinctively. The connection is not theoretical. It is embodied.

That is why tradition in Judaism is not only relevant today.

It is indispensable.
#israel #judaism #zionism

[Titus Barasa Wekesa @barasa18]

@Simon_Ingari What about you Just start your enterprise

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

The Hypocrisy Olympics: Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan and the “State of Palestine” vs. Somaliland

Israel recognizes Somaliland.
Cue outrage from the usual suspects.
Let’s start with reality.

Somaliland has:
• Governed itself peacefully for over 30 years
• Held multiple democratic elections
• Maintained its own borders, institutions, currency, and security
• Met the classic Montevideo criteria for statehood far better than many UN members

Now let’s look at the critics.

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

הליכוד:

בניגוד לטענות השקריות, פלדשטיין מעולם לא שימש כדובר ראש הממשלה ולא הועסק בלשכת ראש הממשלה. ראש הממשלה כמעט שלא היה עמו במגע, לא שיתף אותו בדיונים, ובוודאי שלא הכניס אותו לישיבות או דיונים מסווגים. פלדשטיין הועסק על ידי מנכ"ל משרד רה"מ, ולאחר שהעסקתו שם הסתיימה הוא עבד כיועץ חיצוני עבור מערך ההסברה הלאומי.

מתחילת המלחמה ראש הממשלה פרסם הצהרות ותדרוכים חריפים נגד קטאר למרות ביקורת של גורמים במערכת הביטחון ועיתונאים בשמאל שטענו שהוא “מסכן את החטופים”. בכירים במערכות הבטחון ניסו מעת לעת להכניס דברי שבח לקטאר בנאומי ראש הממשלה וראש הממשלה סירב בתוקף. בנוסף, ראש הממשלה גם הורה על תקיפה מבצעית בקטאר.

במקביל, ממשלת קטאר תקפה פעם אחר פעם את ראש הממשלה בהודעות רשמיות.

לעומת זאת, קצינים בכירים לשעבר, בכירים בשמאל, אנשי מטה החטופים ואנשי עסקים מהשמאל מצויים בקשרים ענפים עם קטאר. ממשלת בנט אף אפשרה לראש השב"כ דאז רונן בר, לטוס לקטאר כאורח כבוד של אמיר קטאר. הצביעות זועקת לשמיים.

בעניין יונתן אוריך בית המשפט כבר אמר את דברו בבירור: שאין עבירה, ואין פרשה. כלומר, לא "קטארגייט" – אלא "קטארפייק".

איננו מופתעים שהפקת התקשורת הנוכחית צצה בדיוק בעת שמתפוצצות פרשיות חמורות באמת: פרשת החדירה האיראנית לטלפון של נפתלי בנט, פרשת הפצ"רית, ועלילות דם על חיילי צה"ל שגרמו לנזק בל ישוער למדינת ישראל. במקום לעסוק בפרשיות אלה, מייצרים הסחות דעת מתוזמנות היטב.

ראש הממשלה דוחה בשאט נפש את כל הניסיונות לייחס לו מניעים זרים או פעולות בלתי חוקיות והוא ימשיך לפעול בנחישות למען ביטחונה ושגשוגה של מדינת ישראל.

[Mary Ekemezie @MaryEkemezie]

@MutemiWaKiama I chuckled as I read your post because all I needed to do, was just swap Kenya for Nigeria, and the story would be just as seamless.

We have got the most selfish, wicked, downright stupid, and intellectually dishonest elite and political class in Africa.

That’s our curse.

[Edward #Odious debt “Can’t pay won’t pay” @RealistKindness]

@YodaGitau @MutemiWaKiama No amount of identifying talents will cover for a broken system

[Harnessed power @Evans28946545]

@YodaGitau @MutemiWaKiama We have a political problem no matter what curriculum we bring up!
It isn’t just on individual talent but the critical mass.
Yes you are great engineer, is there an environment that even supports your great mind/innovation.. kwa sasa unafanya the menial jobs!

[Mwalimu Mūtemi wa Kīama @MutemiWaKiama]

Grace Akinyi on #CBC again...

After my last post on CBC, Kenyans rushed to remind me on the comments that,

"...the west is doing better because their students specialise early, get skills early and become productive"

.....sounds convincing...but also largely nonsense...!

Because some of us have had the privilege of schooling both in Kenya and abroad, it might be important to interrupt that fantasy with some uncomfortable truths.

I did my Masters at the best University in Scotland. Elite by standard.

In my entire class, I did not see a single Scottish national.

Ask your friends studying across the UK and they'll report the same pattern.

Classrooms in western countries are overwhelmingly international. Locals? Not so many.

And no... this is not because British students are fully skilled by their teenage years.

It is because British youth do not need more education to survive.

In the UK, you can decide to take an apprenticeship, opt out of undergraduate degree, switch careers, or simply work with little experience and no education.

Failure is survivable because the system cushions it.

In this context, early specialisation works because it sits on top of functioning institutions, real labour markets, and a system that forgives mistakes.

.... the early skills arguments gets worse here....

Even in sectors that literally keep people alive like healthcare, the UK does not rely on skills produced solely by its own education system.

According to a recent General Medical Council Workforce report, around 42% of doctors working in the UK were trained outside the country.

Yaani, almost half the experts keeping people alive in the UK were taught in curricular that resemble something like 8-4-4

What does that mean?

It means that even with early specialisation, even with elite universities, the UK cannot meet its own critical skill needs domestically.

If early specialisation was the secret ingredient, the UK would not need a Pakistani, Indian or Nigerian doctors to keep its health systems functioning. It would simply produce locally.

Now let's get back home.

Kenya.

I was told that we ain't doing well because we lack skills.

And honestly that would be a very funny joke if it wasn't insulting.

I read it felt hot in my stomach. That Kenyans lack skills because of 8-4-4 curriculum ?

The joke...or the nonsense... or the nonsense on the joke?

Why are we afraid of saying the truth....

That we are not doing well because our skills are trapped in a broken political economy....

Why do you keep on insisting that we are suffering because 8-4-4 did not produce enough skills?

And yet and yet and yet.....

Our engineers are riding bodas. Our trained teachers are sitting at home. Our footballers are sleeping hungry?

Why are you insulting us...?

We see what you people are trying to do with this your CBC.

You want to shift responsibility from the state to the child.

If they fail, they will be told that they chose a wrong pathway.

If they are poor, they will be told that they don't have the right competencies.

And just like that, the leadership will walk away untouched.

Yet, our employment crisis as a country is a governance feature.

Shida iko huko juu kwa Githinji. Sio kwa watoto wetu.

We can redesign the curriculum every five years, but until we redesign politics, jobs will remain an elective.