Turns out, gold mining produces a lot of Arsenic.
Arsenic poisoning has the same symptoms as Ebola.
Congo has the largest gold mines in the world.
1 + 1 = 2
Close to 90% of Kenya is arable land but we got kenyans dying of hunger, the rest are eating imported GMO foods, worst of all is that almost everyone in this country wears second hand imported clothes. Buana, Kenya isn't a sovereign country!
I wish the energy on Nairobi streets today was for Missing Kids, Fuel Prices, or rejecting Finance Bill 2026.
But nah, We have dances for colonial football.
Our priorities are misplaced as a country.
Kenyan police allowed Arsenal fans to gather and disperse peacefully but they never allow the same youth to protest against the government without killing some
The hardest part of fighting colonial imperialism is not just dealing with their puppets leaders. The real challenge is destroying the severe brain rot and psychological damage they implanted in our people.
Does the wealth generated on African soil stay on African soil?
Does it build African schools, African hospitals, African roads, African factories?
Or does it flow out to foreign shareholders, foreign banks, foreign governments?
Did you know that on June 1, the British will seize control of over 250 km of unique Kenyan land in Laikipia, as ex-diplomat Rob Macaire becomes CEO of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy? Ama hii haituhusu? Khabusie!
The most revealing word in the colonial vocabulary is "development."
Underdeveloped nations.
Developing nations.
The development gap.
As if poverty in the formerly colonized world is a natural condition, a starting point, a stage in a universal process, rather than a result.
A result of having your industries deliberately destroyed.
Your trade routes reoriented to serve colonial ports.
Your best agricultural land converted to export crops while your own people went hungry.
Your educated class either co-opted into colonial administration or eliminated.
Your legal systems replaced.
Your languages suppressed.
Your traditional governance structures dismantled and replaced with borders drawn by Europeans at a conference table in Berlin in 1884 who had never been to Africa.
"Underdeveloped" implies they haven't arrived yet.
The truth is they were deliberately prevented from keeping what they had built.
There is a word for what produces poverty by design and then describes the poverty as a character flaw.
It is not civilization.