Erick Opon

FR-EN Interpreter|Emcee|Moderator. Words are my passion. I use them to inspire humanity, make magic happen and contribute to changing the world .

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The tribalism doesn't bother me as much any more. It's the immaturity. Imagine being over half a century old, and never graduating from the talking points of 30 years ago. Because this tribalism conversation is the same as Moi's days, it's the same as the colonial days when the British divided us into tribal reserves. We're not being allowed to mature or grow up. It's what @jnyairo said: tribalism is an ideology of stasis. Who you were at birth is who you remain till kingdom come. You have no brains, no achievements, no historical context. Just what's on your ID card.

So you become a lawyer, doctor, teacher at 25, and at 50, your work has given you a wealth of experience to talk about society and the world, and to expand conversations to "how do we make law, medicine, education, etc build our country?" Instead, what do you find?

You are drowned in petty conversations about who this, who that... before you know it, this is the conversation:

Young people: "The economy isn't growing, get out and we take over from you."

You: "But I know why it's not growing and that's the conversation I want to have."

Githeri media: "That's theory and it's irrelevant to the market. Where's your solution for fixing the nation?"

Young people: "Yes, that. Whatever the media said."

We have a maturity problem in Kenya. We're just not being allowed to grow up. Funny thing is, in three decades, the youth will be in the exact same position, wondering how come it is that they look to their children like the very generation they used to criticize.

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[David Nahinga Π 🇰🇪✊🏿 @dnahinga]

I just want to be a good man.

Everything else can become subordinate to it

To Build well.
To Love well.
To Lead well.
To Provide well.
To Tell the truth.
To Keep my word.
To Do useful things.
To Don’t become cruel in pursuit of success.

A good man who becomes powerful is interesting.

A powerful man who becomes good is rarer.

#MemoToMyself

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@joan_reals Joan, Joan ,Joan,(nimekuita mara ngapi?)

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@alexmwanzo I have seen this story play out every single time.
A company makes profit for itself and generates revenue for the government then a disgruntled person says the community doesn't have its needs represented.
Firm closes, jobs lost. Someone's private interest wins, country loses.

[Wealth Decoded @WealthDecoded7]

An Old Man Who Built Three Companies Told Me The 14 Techniques That Beat 99% Of The World:

1. The 5 - Second Rule.

[MM @neomjro]

Sexual discipline , alcohol management
We needa have these conversations gents I beg you 💔😔
Years of hard work gone and for what ?

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@RubyzionCys That's Conor McNamara.

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@nxt888 @IOdumbeKute @wmnjoya come and see

[Dr. John Njenga Karugia PhD. @johnnjenga]

During colonialism, Pokot Mau Mau intelligence units advised Pokots to secretly boil potatoes before planting them so that they don't germinate. A night before planting, the potatoes were secretly boiled. No harvest for British colonial land robbers. There were many diverse clandestine acts of covert resistance across what became Kenya so that what happens? So that Mzungu Arudi Ulaya, Mwafrika Apate Uhuru = MAU MAU. Whoever was involved in resisting and organizing against the British colonial land robbers in the territories that became Kenya is Mau Mau. Some histories and peoples are known, yet some are unknown. Resistance was to eject the British from African lands. But a snake oil merchant selling ethnic poison wants Kenyans to believe that only Kikuyu were fighting to eject the British from their fertile lands, and, that the British were only ejected using an English dictionary recited in Lancaster by two Luo elites. All our ancestors made a contribution towards MAUMAU including Pokots, Luhya, Kamba, Kalenjin, Luo and others. Jaramogi and Mboya would agree. Anyway, I grew up in the maize plantations of West Pokot. I lived in Kapenguria for many moons. I often visited the Kapenguria Seven (not six!) jail. Whenever we had visitors at home, I took them there, took a huge key from a police officer, and we walked around the jail. Wacha niende mimi Mungu mwema. I will whisper other stories unto your ears later. Na Mchague David Maraga. This time sitachoma bet. Last time iliungua🥲. ⚖️

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@KenyanSays The announcement in red at the bottom is very loud. Maybe if they started with that VCT centre, airport works would have progressed much sooner.

We may never know

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@joan_reals Ninasikia kukija na kiboko Kirinyaga.

If this is how the car is after a few months of use, naomba Mungu isikuwe na shida tukipatana

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@GSaruni The fall will be deadlier when it happens

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Benjamin Šeško: “Scoring despite being benched? For me, it's important whenever I come on to try and help the team. That is why I'm here”.

“Whether that is five minutes or 90 minutes, it doesn't really matter. It's about showing I can deliver anytime”.

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@Saadleo897 @433 @grok who are they talking about?

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@LegacySiu Leroy Sane

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@Dr_AustinOmondi That story grounded me in everything I do since I read it nine years ago

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@mqhlay They'll learn that sacking Alonso was the wrong way to go

[Erick Opon @erick_opon]

@LegacySiu Di Maria

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Michael Carrick: “I am not getting carried away”.

“We've got some BIGGER games coming up, because every next game is the bigger game”.