Waliuba

Program Specialist- Health|Youth | Gender Advocate| Leadership and Governance

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

Nilituma Vijana wangu Wakule na wa reverse pesa"- Nominated Senator Karen Nyamu confesses on live camera that she sent goons to a hotel owned by one of her critics and a government critic to eat and leave without paying. The owner is a Bunge la Mwananchi member.

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

@4e16b6e688014c8 @benard_owino_ quite reckless, if the guy was a bit tactical the officer would be long gone including the videographer.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

In my address titled "The Political Economy of Obedience," delivered last month at the Josef Korbel School of Global Affairs at the University of Denver, I identified five key mechanisms through which African populations have been trained into political compliance. I am sharing a summary here because they explain precisely what we are watching play out in real time every day on this continent.

The first is colonial education. The curriculum inherited from the French, the Brits or the Portugese administration was not designed to produce critical citizens. It was designed to produce a particular kind of political subject. one who understood authority as something to be respected rather than questioned, and who experienced his own political traditions as a source of shame rather than institutional possibility. As I said in Denver, the most effective political prisons are not made of concrete. They are made of curriculum. The Togolese school I attended taught us the genealogy of French kings with more precision than the history of the governance systems that predated French colonial presence on our territory.

The second is the economy of obedience itself. Authoritarian systems endure not primarily through permanent terror but because they structure the relationship between political compliance and material survival so that obedience becomes, for most people most of the time, the rational choice. Access to employment, scholarships, market licenses, import authorizations, health clinic access: none of it politically neutral, all of it conditioned on loyalty. People in these systems do not collaborate with power because they are morally deficient. They collaborate because the scaffolding of their daily lives has been designed to make non-collaboration economically catastrophic.

The third is the family as a site of control. In conditions of economic precarity, the individual who considers a dissident act must calculate not only her own risk but the risk she imposes on her parents, her siblings, her children, her cousins etc. I have watched people of intelligence and moral clarity retreat from political engagement not because they were afraid for themselves but because they could not justify the devastating exposure their activism would bring to their families. The authoritarian state does not need to threaten everyone. It only needs to ensure that the threat to one is visible and comprehensible to all.

The fourth is religion. In many parts of Africa, religious institutions have been deployed, not by their most honest practitioners but by their most politically convenient ones, to transmit a theology of earthly resignation and otherworldly reward that discourages political engagement. The pastoral instruction to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's sits very comfortably with the interests of Caesars who have no intention of rendering anything to anyone. Liberation theology, which in Latin America produced an extraordinary tradition of religiously grounded political resistance, has had a far more contested reception in much of African Christianity and Islam, partly because of the direct entanglement of many religious institutions with state power, which has made spiritual authority and political compliance structurally allied.

The fifth is media. In authoritarian African contexts, state and privately owned media aligned with power do not typically practice crude propaganda. They practice something more subtle and more durable: the selection of what is visible and what is invisible; the framing of social problems as natural phenomena rather than political choices; and the treatment of opposition voices as marginal or foreign-funded. The film industry participates in this discipline in its own way, through the systematic promotion of narratives that depict poverty and wealth as conditions of fate or personal failure, stories in which the distance between the poor and the rich has everything to do with luck, talent or divine favour and nothing to do with power, policy or the deliberate engineering of inequality.

The cumulative effect, over decades, is a population whose political imagination has been narrowed to the point where alternatives are genuinely difficult to conceive, not because the alternatives do not exist, but because the political ecosystem has ensured they remain invisible.

These are the operating manual of authoritarian systems on this continent. And authoritarianism today is not limited to regimes with a known dictator who has held power for decades. It extends equally to regimes that perform a change of leadership through placebo elections conducted every four to five years, producing a new face every eight to ten years while the same system of impunity, patronage and repression remains structurally intact.

I would argue that these are in fact the more dangerous form of authoritarianism because their citizens are deceived into believing they are living under a democracy when they are in reality governed by plutocrats. The citizen under an obvious dictatorship at least knows what he is fighting. The citizen under a rotating plutocracy has been convinced there is nothing to fight at all. He votes, he watches a new face take the oath, and he mistakes the performance of transition for the substance of change. He ends up with no voice, no justice, no agency, and worse, no drive to fight for his own dignity. For one can only fight for liberation after acknowledging one's condition of oppression.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has just made a massive ruling on YOUR pension money.

Attorney General Dorcas Oduor and 3 others LOST the case while defending the government’s position.

For years, the government treated pension money deducted from workers’ salaries as if it were public money.

That is why pension schemes faced endless bureaucracy, procurement rules, delays, and costly approvals before investing your savings.

The Association of Retirement Benefits Schemes challenged this in court.

They lost in the High Court.
Lost again in the Court of Appeal.
But on 15th May 2026, the Supreme Court finally ruled in their favour.

The court declared that pension schemes sponsored by public entities and state corporations are PRIVATE TRUSTS, not government money.

Meaning?

Your pension is YOUR money.
Not the government’s.

Trustees can now invest faster, avoid unnecessary procurement bureaucracy, and potentially grow retirement savings better for millions of Kenyans.
This is one of the biggest financial rulings most wananchi have never heard about.

[DismasWaTabu @DismasWaTabu]

Dear @bienaimesol

"Presence is not submission" is a great line. But the African chiefs who signed away our land to colonialists were also just "present at a meeting." Didn't end well for us.

This is France we're talking about. The same France that still forces 14 African countries to pay them money every year for being colonized. They named their summit "Africa Forward", forward into whose pocket exactly?

They didn't call you because they value your African voice. They called you because nothing makes an exploitation party look innocent like a talented African bald man with a guitar and a big smile. You were the decoration. The proof that everything was fine. The vibe.

While you performed, the real business was happening in the next room and your presence told the world "don't worry, the Africans are happy."

Now we all love you Bien. Nobody wants to say it. But when you're the only African smiling that hard in a room full of French officials, Uncle Ruckus starts feeling like a close relative. The man also believed he was simply "building bridges."

You were not a guest at that table my friend.

You were the entertainment.

There's a difference between having a seat at the table and being served *as* the meal. Next time find out which one you are before you tune your guitar.

Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.

[ibrahimkhanofficial @Sh_Ibrahimkhan]

My beloved brother,

There is a profound irony in Emmanuel Macron rebranding as a “Pan-Africanist” in Nairobi. True Pan-Africanism is about dignity, yet this is the same leader who, in November 2017 at the University of Ouagadougou, publicly humiliated President Kaboré by jokingly telling him to “fix the air conditioning.” You do not get to lecture on “partnership” when your default is colonial condescension and “civilizational” insults regarding African fertility.

2. The Sahel Eviction & Financial Shackles
The reality of May 2026 is that Macron is only in Kenya because he was shown the door elsewhere. Between 2022 and 2024, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger evicted French troops (Operation Barkhane) for prioritizing extraction over security. For decades, the CFA Franc system forced African nations to deposit 50% of their reserves in the French Treasury—a colonial tax in a 21st-century wrapper. France did not “withdraw” from the Sahel; it was defeated by the very African agency it claims to support.

3. The Gaza Hypocrisy
While Macron smiles for cameras in Kenya, he has spent months providing diplomatic cover and support for Israel’s actions in Palestine, even as the Global South demands justice and an end to the occupation. You cannot claim to be a friend of the oppressed in Africa while standing on the wrong side of history in Gaza. True Pan-Africanism is rooted in global liberation, not selective morality.

4. Refusing the Propaganda
The 11 new deals signed here—from the Nairobi railway to fiber optics—are not “gifts”; they are a desperate pivot to East Africa after losing the West. We must not be the PR team that clears his image. I would rather support my African brothers in the Sahel who had the courage to kick him out than sit in a chair and validate a leader who views our continent as his backup plan. Africa needs allies, not supervisors.

[Alinur Mohamed @AlinurMohamed_]

This is why President William Ruto and his government fears gen z

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

@sholard_mancity Fee increment left, right, centre.

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

Very troubling that a platform meant to mentor and inspire young girls was instead used to objectify one. We really should question the leadership standards in this country.
#chukuakura #ChukuaID #Lindamwananchi

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

@_ssiva @baroswahjr I struggle to understand. Micro management for his good .

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

@WillieOeba The man is allover the place . He’s too available, he needs to be more deliberate with his presence

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

Late to the party, but still showing up with pride.

Sifuna
#LindaMwananchi #Sifuna #YouthSDGsWeek2026

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

Youth SDGs week 2026

What does it say about our systems when a youth has to choose between survival today and growth for tomorrow?

“Goonism inalipa kulipa activism”

I quote a young man at the Youth SDGs session on building peace and just communities.
#YouthSDGsWeek2026

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

People in leadership that I won’t criticize even if they KILL or STEAL because of my personal friendship with them:

HE William Ruto
HE Kithure Kindiki
HE Moses Wetang’ula
Hon. Adan Duale
Hon. Geoffrey Ruku
Hon. Dorcas Oduor

[Oracle of Apollo @caliansolaris]

@edgarwabwire_ History never forgets. Their Charade ENDS with our generation. Tutafagia wote, TR@ITORS.

[I am Chege @_James041]

This clip is only one and a half minutes long.

It will save your life.

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

It can’t be the same country. Kenyans on TikTok seem to be living in a completely different world. Hii ndoa ya usiku bila wazazi 😆😆😆 with claims that the wife spend last night with the best man. 🙆🏽‍♀️🤸🏾
@Obidan_Dela ni movie

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

@CyberRanger_NNN Imagine taking over two hours just to cover less than 2 kilometers, then it all opens up. Big fuls.

[Waliuba @BarbzSituation]

Nakuru-Nairobi highway gridlock a motorists’ discipline crisis . Kazi ni kuingiana tu. 🙃