Lily Mburu

Wanjikũ • Socio-legal scholar • ✊🏽 haki na utu • breathing decoloniality • 🌱 lover

[Lily Mburu @imaraforever]

On writing:

"Read. Read more than you write. In expressing the
ambition to be a writer, you are committing yourself to the community of other writers... Read slowly, like someone studying the network of tunnels underneath a bank vault in preparation for a heist"

– Teju Cole

[Rami Jarrah @RamiJarrah]

The moment Aljazeera Journalist Momen Al-Sharafi breaks the news that his entire family of 21 members were just killed in an Israeli Airstrike in #Gaza.

The look he gives as he is no longer able to talk, is heartbreaking.

[Common Dreams @commondreams]

"Refaat Alareer embraced everything good and pure about Gaza and Palestine," said friend @dancohen3000. "He will not be forgotten and his legacy will live on for many generations to come." https://t.co/6ET6qVdnmt

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

"What should we do? drown? commit mass suicide, is that what Israel wants?"

The haunting words of Dr. Refaat al-Areer, who has now been killed by Israel in Gaza.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

From al-Jazeera reporter Wael Dahdouh: ‘A genocide and holocaust is unfolding in Gaza before the eyes of the world’.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

This was Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital 20 hours before Israel BOMBED it.

Full of families who were sheltering. Children cleaning, gardening, and trying to survive a genocide.

Everyone in this video is most probably dead or severely injured. Full of kids.

[SizweLo @SizweLo]

This is a video about Capitalism, by a Capitalist. Listen carefully.

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

In the book, "In Breaking the Silence of NGOs in Africa," members of the Kenya Organic Intellectuals Network explore the role that NGO discourse and participation has had on contemporary struggles for radical change. Via @ROAPEjournal.

https://t.co/d4QbiYxBbU

[Nyanje wa Nyanje @nyanjewanyanje]

Nothing more powerful I have heard today than the wonderful @t_milej “Teaching is a lifetime commitment, it’s is not a customer relationship, I am not selling anything to students. Why should I prepare students for a job market that we complain is corrupt ?”👊 @afronomicslaw

[Kabarak University Press @KABUPressKE]

'Jurisprudence is probably the most Eurocentric course in the undergraduate programme'. Ms Lily Mburu @imaraforever reflects on the absence of TWAIL in the jurisprudence course showing how it's filled with White and Male scholars!!
@afronomicslaw

[Titilayo Adebola @Titi_Adebola]

Afronomicslaw TWAIL Workshop (7 September 2023). Keynote: Justice Joel M Ngugi 🔥🔥🔥

TWAIL-Commitments:
-Historical analysis of law.
-Uncovering the material interests of groups.
-Pluralism in the law and people-centred justice systems.
-Societal transformation.
#afronomicslaw

[Afronomicslaw @afronomicslaw]

The plenary session of our #afronomicslaw #twail Workshop features professors of international law/law from various law schools in Kenya reflecting on their experiences in embedding #twail in the classroom.

- Dr. Celestine any Amy-Musembi
- Prof. Edwin Abuya

[Dr Sarah Jilani @sarahjilani]

Happy birthday Samir Amin, born #OnThisDay in 1931, who analysed 'Eurocentrism as a global project that reinforced imperialism & systemic inequalities by legitimising a global system that expropriated resources & exploited people in the Global South' https://t.co/v7DGF8B8Gl

[Lily Mburu @imaraforever]

My thoughts on the imperative to politicize human rights in Kenya, if the pursuit for social justice is to be a truly emancipatory one.

Thanks to @kingwa for indulging me in the conversation.

https://t.co/L6UhbTvW9p

[April Zhu 朱萸 @aprzhu]

“‘Hustling’ is about self-advancement and independence, not redistribution and solidarity: a hustler is self-made, demanding neither social welfare nor revolution. A broad-based opposition to elite predation – whatever its ethnicity – would need a vision beyond the hustle.”

[Lily Mburu @imaraforever]

A beautiful celebration, rousingly paying homage to Micere - the ideals she stood for, lived & fought for! From the glowing tributes, introspecting at the feet of our elders, the richness of orature, revolutionary chants & songs. Something cracked open in our spirits last night.

[Lily Mburu @imaraforever]

Queen of Africa. Queen of Utu.

Long live the spirit of Mwalimu Micere Githae Mugo!

Phenomenal Pan-African woman, global citizen and daughter of the 🇰🇪 soil. Viva!

Aluta continua!

#CelebratingShujaaMicere

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

They were at Treetops Hotel in Kenya's Aberdare National Park. Nine months later, hundreds of freedom fighters would hide from British troops in the forest below. In the next eight years, 1.5 million Kenyans would be incarcerated, starved, tortured, in concentration camps.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Kenyans are suing Britain for up to $200B in reparations for land theft and violent colonial abuses.

With multinational corporations still occupying the land, former Chief Justice of Kenya Willy Mutunga explains how it's like "the British never left."

[Lily Mburu @imaraforever]

@AmbreenaManji thank you.🤗

[Lily Mburu @imaraforever]

Not sure I have the right word for this..

I'm thinking about the magic you experience at the intersection of deep intellectual thought and your soul... but then again, if your mind is interconnected with your soul, then intellect in the absence of that connection is alienating?

[Lily Mburu @imaraforever]

What I do know for sure, is that being in a learning space that sparks that magic is truly a gift.