Lord_Brivic

But then, what is life without a little risk.

[C. R. Wiley @crwiley1962]

I’ve been waiting for a goose to be taught a lesson by a little kid.

[Lord_Brivic @Br1v1C]

@alexmwanzo Kenya Exports
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[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I'm at my sister's house for Christmas and the Wi-Fi here is a disaster. She has 15 people trying to stream on a single consumer-grade router.

Everything was buffering. People were getting frustrated. They started looking at me like I should "jump in and fix the settings."

I didn't even put down my fork.

I told them the issue isn't the router; it's ISP Throttling. I told them that on national holidays, providers "cap the bandwidth" at the neighborhood node to prevent a total grid collapse.

I told them there’s literally nothing anyone can do until the "surge period" ends at midnight.

Is it true? No. I could have easily logged into the router, prioritized my own MAC address, and let everyone else deal with the lag.

But if I "fix" it once, I’m the family Help Desk for life. By blaming a faceless corporation, I killed the expectation of support.

Everyone stopped complaining and started a board game. I went into the den, used my phone as a Private Hotspot, and finished my movie in 4K.

Infrastructure is about control. Management is about making sure you're the only one who has it.

[Loresho_Hodler ⚡️ @rkirubi]

a compressed x-ray of Kenya’s entire political economy, and it tells multiple deep, uncomfortable truths if you’re willing to read between the lines.

🧅 Layer 1: Safaricom’s Domination – The Digital Monolith
•Sh819B market cap puts it >5× larger than the next contender (Equity Bank).
•It’s not just a telecom company — it’s the unofficial Central Bank of retail Kenya, via M-Pesa.
•Safaricom’s size reflects the outsized importance of mobile money, not productivity or innovation per se.
•What it tells us:
Kenya’s most valuable asset is a payments toll booth.
Not a manufacturer. Not a logistics company. Not an energy or agricultural innovator.

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🧅 Layer 2: Banks Rule Everything Around Me (B.R.E.A.M.)
•Of the top 7, 6 are banks.
All dependent on interest income, government securities, and consumer overdrafts.
•Their large market caps don’t reflect innovation — they reflect their position in the debt cycle:
Government borrows. Banks buy bonds. Citizens pay taxes.
Rinse. Repeat.
•Their dominance is a symptom of:
•A low-innovation economy
•Lack of capital markets depth
•A government that crowds out private borrowing

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🧅 Layer 3: Vanishing Private Enterprise
•Where are Kenya’s great private manufacturing or tech firms?
•EABL (Sh137B) is legacy colonial capital, now mostly Diageo-owned. It’s liquor + brand inertia.
•No new industrial giant. No energy innovator. No vertically integrated agro-exporter.

Absence speaks volumes.

Kenya’s capital markets don’t reward enterprise — they reward gatekeeping and government dependence.

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🧅 Layer 4: Market Cap ≠ Real Economy

This list does not reflect real economic pain:
•KES has lost 50%+ vs USD in 5 years.
•SMEs are being crushed by taxes, levies, and lack of credit.
•Inflation-adjusted wages are falling.
•These companies look “valuable” — but only in KES terms, which are melting.

A Sh819B company in 2025 might be worth less in USD than it was at Sh500B in 2020.

🧅 Layer 6: The Structural Lie of Diversification
•On paper, Kenya has multiple “sectors” in the NSE.
•In reality, it’s banks + Safaricom + everyone else bleeding.
•When the same players dominate the index for a decade, it signals capital is not being recycled into innovation — it’s being hoarded.

Kenya isn’t diversifying. It’s entrenching rentier incumbents.

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🧅 Layer 7: Global Investors Already Know This
•Foreign capital outflows from NSE have accelerated.
•Institutional investors prefer to buy Safaricom and FX out — not hold long-term KES risk.
•That’s why Safaricom trades like a bond and why no Kenyan unicorn gets NSE-listed.

The market itself doesn’t believe in its own future — it’s arbitraging currency erosion.

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🧠 Bottom Line:

Kenya’s capital markets are top-heavy, rent-seeking, and fiat-constrained.

[Lord_Brivic @Br1v1C]

@adamjee001 Biomass sio ? 😅

[deni @fiagirly]

omg??? Popemilton 😭😭😭😭

[Nate McGrady @natemcgrady]

wait - how will we get senior engineers if we stop hiring junior engineers??

[Sun Tzu @ItsChanzu]

Mtoto hajui Redroom Mtoto hajui Gondwana Mtoto hajui Kunye 🙏🏼

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Wakikuambia “tulijaribu tukashindwa,” waambie “ mimi sio nyinyi.”

[T·M ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ @mbarani]

Flossin Mauwano

[LeRoy @LeeRussian]

Would

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[shadowstack @abel_masila]

I want to visit Nzalae/ Nzawa locations, Kitui County and see what’s happening there. Juu hizo roles zao ni mingi. 😑😑

[Alex Forbes @AlexForbesOps]

If CAT sold tickets to their live demos I bet wives would be without husbands and children would be without fathers.

All men would just go hit the CAT demo for happy hour every night.

It’s probably better this way.

[Ms_Miriti @MsMiriti]

2020 you were 16 years , how will you understand my mood this morning

[gaut @0xgaut]

ok hear me out

Spotify running on an iPod Classic

[Lord_Brivic @Br1v1C]

@jamal_haji_mohd @ragosjr @daweed_004 @adamjee001 😂😂

[Jumuiyan @Jumuiyan]

Leo ni Friday
Kesho ni Friday
Sunday ni Saturday
Monday ni Sunday
Tuesday ni Monday
Mambo itachemka vibaya sana 🔥💉 ✈️

[Kethan @kethan_official]

There needs to be a generation between Millennials and Gen Z called Milli-Z.
For the folks born between like 1997 and 2000—too young to be real Millennials, too old to fully Gen Z. In no man’s land.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

The three wise men of combustion engines.