Getrude Maina

Published author | Research fellow @ Nala Centre | Foreign policy, geo-economy & Africa.

[Nala Center @NalaCenter]

In case you missed it 👇
Access our latest policy brief on Kenya–France relations in a shifting global order by @Getty12067613
here 🔗: https://t.co/gPjgH3bQan
#Kenya #France #ForeignPolicy

[Gitz  @Gitz__]

It should literally be illegal for bills affecting 50+ million Kenyans to pass when half of Parliament didn't even bother to show up for work.

If we don't show up to our jobs, we get fired. Why do they get to decide our future via empty chairs?

[LOCALMAN 🇰🇪 @Localman254_]

One Rule for 2027, we can't vote the following
1. Ruto
2. Gachagua
3. Raila psychos
4. Matiangi
5. Kalonzo
They are all the same

[Pabló Escobar @ed_kemboi]

Smoke detectors are cheaper to install than CCTV cameras. The smoke detectors even inside the cubicles in this case would have prevented casualties.

[Karwaay @Karwaay]

Why is there CCTV INSIDE the dorm? Where does the footage go? Who watches it? Isn’t this a severe child safeguarding breach? Isn’t the physical privacy + dignity of minors violated by installing those there?

Great the cameras caught it, but the adults need to explain. Slooowly.

[Getrude Maina @Getty12067613]

@theyluvmoh Maheniiii��‍💫

[#WeThePeopleKE Movement @WeThePeopleMvt]

I just formally objected to The Finance Bill 2026 on @CivicEdKenya.

Your voice matters too - add yours: https://t.co/PxmRT99fp3

#RejectFinanceBill2026

[stephanie @StephanieXAUUSD]

Nikupee reason ya kutokea Monday ?
1. Rent increment
2.KRA access to mpesa statements
3.Transaction cost increment
4.Phones will become expensive to purchase
5.MTumba clothes increment
6.Bundles will become more expensive
Ni hayo Tu kwa sasa🖐️😔

[Getrude Maina @Getty12067613]

@MKCOADVOCATES Very insightful @MKCOADVOCATES

[Mercy Kareithi & Company @MKCOADVOCATES]

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[Devon🧊 @devontsr]

Greatest discography of all time

[Mumbi Akinyi @Moh_Mumbi]

The first thing France did was get immunity. Do you think they have your best interests?

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

A few months ago, I published this piece, originally written in French. I am sharing it again because it  painfully is relevant for the moment.

“Today, reading the political manifesto of an average party in Africa feels like walking into a thrift store hoping to find a garment that is worth your time. Every aisle exposes you to a collection of worn-out ideas that no honest mind would willingly carry. One moves from chapter to chapter with the impression that the authors were spinning a wheel of ideological fortune. In agriculture, they suddenly become Marxist. In labor rights, they turn into apostles of capitalism. In women’s rights, they resurrect a tired conservatism. In foreign policy, they slip on a pan-Africanist coat that looks more like a costume than a conviction. The whole text resembles a poorly stitched patchwork, as if coherence were a luxury they preferred not to afford.

Africa is not only going through a political crisis but a profound epistemological collapse. When a political class abandons the discipline of thinking and the intellectual foundations that give purpose to action, everything that follows becomes an empty performance. Slogans replace ideas, convenience replaces conviction, and improvisation masquerades as strategy.
A movement deprived of intellectual grounding behaves like a body without a spine, flailing in every direction while convincing itself that chaos is a form of adaptability. Yet no struggle led by scattered minds has ever endured long enough to transform a society.

Read full piece here:
https://t.co/Xp3TrPInlu

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

It is not just trying to rebrand itself. France is actively in search of new colonies. This is not speculation or Pan-Africanist conspiracy theory. Two years ago, Macron presented a plan to his own parliament explicitly identifying anglophone and lusophone African countries as France’s new strategic frontier, the next territory to be brought into the orbit of French influence now that francophone Africa has had the dignity to show it the door. The methodology might be different because we are not 1946. The vocabulary will be partnership, investment, security cooperation, cultural exchange. But the result will be identical because the logic has never changed.

So to our “anglophone and lusophone” brothers and sisters across the continent, congratulations on your new status as France’s next strategic frontier. That status earned our countries labelled as “francophone” 7 places out of the top 10 poorest countries in Africa.

It really pays to speak fluent “comment allez vous?”.

[Nala Center @NalaCenter]

Sudan is now home to the world's largest displacement crisis with 15M people uprooted, 34M in need of aid, and humanitarian funding at just 16% of what's required.
As the war enters Year 4, the numbers demand attention.
Read more: https://t.co/mwWhxW8E0p

[Getrude Maina @Getty12067613]

As #AfricaForward2026 convene in Nairobi, we must ask: how does Kenya convert diplomatic visibility into sovereign progress? My latest analysis explores how the structural realities of the KE-FR partnership.
@ForeignOfficeKE @MusaliaMudavadi @SingoeiAKorir

[Nala Center @NalaCenter]

As the Africa Forward Summit opens in Nairobi, Kenya faces a defining question: will foreign partnerships drive sovereign industrial progress or deepen dependency?

Read more: https://t.co/JEe2zhW4MC
#AfricaForwardSummit2026

[Nala Center @NalaCenter]

As the Africa Forward Summit opens in Nairobi, Kenya faces a defining question: will foreign partnerships drive sovereign industrial progress or deepen dependency?

Read more: https://t.co/JEe2zhW4MC
#AfricaForwardSummit2026

[Mwikali @gertrudem_]

Putting Baba on your whatsapp status is just madness lol😏