Titus Kaloki

Titus Kaloki is a community social worker, politician and creative artist. He possesses good business acumen and a way with words. Music, reading and travelling

[Titus Kaloki @itskaloki]

@AokoOtieno_ 💯

[Titus Kaloki @itskaloki]

@JoelJirane If you have lots of illegal gold from Sudan that you want smuggled to Dubai, you need a dealer to handle the sales and laundering and a leader who can travel with diplomatic immunity to transport it in a private jet chartered by UAE. Join the dots?

[Titus Kaloki @itskaloki]

@georgediano Its a very deadly fire trap.

[Odanga Madung @Odangaring]

This is exactly what Nairobi has become, lots of resources are available for talking, panels, content and eating sausages in hotels, but nobody is really producing...

Kenya s no longer productive! We are just talkative!

[Prof. Alfred Omenya @aomenya]

Today is one of the saddest day in my life. I never imagined that this would happen in my alma mater. There is a sense of desperation, hopelessness and helplessness in the country. Even those who went to Alliance or are in Alliance are not immune to this situation.

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

“The same God that doesn't answer your prayers right away, is the same God that doesn't punish you right after you sin.”

— Rumi

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Dhee✨🌎 @UncleDhee]

I nearly give this man headbutt today 😂

[Hon. Caleb Amisi, MP @Honcalebamisi]

X is a public platform.

Public participation now!

It is a legal requirement .

If you want me to impeach the dumb guy!
Retweet and like.
24k likes guarantee progress .

Lets do this for our nation.

Kenya needs a renaissance !

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

" CS Ogamba should resign "- Kenya Human rights commission says following the tragic death of students from Utumishi girls!

[Norma Kayy @NandosRoll]

The next scam after make up

[The Elephant @theelephantinfo]

Kenya and France signed 11 bilateral agreements during Macron’s visit. A nuclear energy plant. Modernized transport. Sustainable agriculture. Investing 700 million euros at Mombasa port. And the defence cooperation agreement ratified alongside the summit grants French troops operating in Kenya legal protections equivalent to diplomatic immunity. Reports indicate approximately 800 French soldiers had already arrived in Kenya before parliament formally ratified that agreement. Before any formal vote. Are we witnessing a partnership of equals, or a quiet concession of our national sovereignty?"
Read Analysis: https://t.co/qZmiR3lRbm

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Photo: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

[Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) @KenyaBankers]

Kenyans are currently paying more income tax as individuals than companies pay in corporate tax.

PAYE currently stands at up to 35%, compared to 30% corporate tax, leaving workers with less take-home pay.

The proposed 5% PAYE reduction would help correct the imbalance, ease pressure on households, and improve disposable income for workers.

A fairer tax system should support both workers and economic growth.

#BeyondBanking

[Rasna Warah @RasnaWarah]

@WilliamsRuto I was diagnosed with cancer soon after you were declared president. I have always wondered whether there is a link. Before I die, I want to know, how much money and land do you need, and how much suffering do you want to inflict on Kenyans before you die?

[Titus Kaloki @itskaloki]

@Nyambuscov_ This is an advertisegment for those who know. Disregard the content. Ako soko

[Titus Kaloki @itskaloki]

@CasperOnChain Blame the mom. Coz all mums know. Their hate for the father is greater than their love for the child.

[Titus Kaloki @itskaloki]

@amenya_nelson This is good. Adds flavour and engagement to the Gen Zs who can't read more than three paragraphs.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

" The Kenyan Government collects 8 Billion per day but spends 12 billion per day"- Kwame Owino on how Kenya the 46th poorest country in the world survives!

[Nyakundi Report @NyakundiReport]

🚨 UPDATE: Fresh twist as matatu operators clash with Energy Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi during a live press briefing over the ongoing nationwide strike, publicly disputing claims that an agreement has been reached to resolve the fuel price dispute and insisting that no deal is in place.

The operators maintain that the strike remains in force as consultations continue, with transport services still suspended pending a clear resolution on fuel pricing.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

In my address titled "The Political Economy of Obedience," delivered last month at the Josef Korbel School of Global Affairs at the University of Denver, I identified five key mechanisms through which African populations have been trained into political compliance. I am sharing a summary here because they explain precisely what we are watching play out in real time every day on this continent.

The first is colonial education. The curriculum inherited from the French, the Brits or the Portugese administration was not designed to produce critical citizens. It was designed to produce a particular kind of political subject. one who understood authority as something to be respected rather than questioned, and who experienced his own political traditions as a source of shame rather than institutional possibility. As I said in Denver, the most effective political prisons are not made of concrete. They are made of curriculum. The Togolese school I attended taught us the genealogy of French kings with more precision than the history of the governance systems that predated French colonial presence on our territory.

The second is the economy of obedience itself. Authoritarian systems endure not primarily through permanent terror but because they structure the relationship between political compliance and material survival so that obedience becomes, for most people most of the time, the rational choice. Access to employment, scholarships, market licenses, import authorizations, health clinic access: none of it politically neutral, all of it conditioned on loyalty. People in these systems do not collaborate with power because they are morally deficient. They collaborate because the scaffolding of their daily lives has been designed to make non-collaboration economically catastrophic.

The third is the family as a site of control. In conditions of economic precarity, the individual who considers a dissident act must calculate not only her own risk but the risk she imposes on her parents, her siblings, her children, her cousins etc. I have watched people of intelligence and moral clarity retreat from political engagement not because they were afraid for themselves but because they could not justify the devastating exposure their activism would bring to their families. The authoritarian state does not need to threaten everyone. It only needs to ensure that the threat to one is visible and comprehensible to all.

The fourth is religion. In many parts of Africa, religious institutions have been deployed, not by their most honest practitioners but by their most politically convenient ones, to transmit a theology of earthly resignation and otherworldly reward that discourages political engagement. The pastoral instruction to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's sits very comfortably with the interests of Caesars who have no intention of rendering anything to anyone. Liberation theology, which in Latin America produced an extraordinary tradition of religiously grounded political resistance, has had a far more contested reception in much of African Christianity and Islam, partly because of the direct entanglement of many religious institutions with state power, which has made spiritual authority and political compliance structurally allied.

The fifth is media. In authoritarian African contexts, state and privately owned media aligned with power do not typically practice crude propaganda. They practice something more subtle and more durable: the selection of what is visible and what is invisible; the framing of social problems as natural phenomena rather than political choices; and the treatment of opposition voices as marginal or foreign-funded. The film industry participates in this discipline in its own way, through the systematic promotion of narratives that depict poverty and wealth as conditions of fate or personal failure, stories in which the distance between the poor and the rich has everything to do with luck, talent or divine favour and nothing to do with power, policy or the deliberate engineering of inequality.

The cumulative effect, over decades, is a population whose political imagination has been narrowed to the point where alternatives are genuinely difficult to conceive, not because the alternatives do not exist, but because the political ecosystem has ensured they remain invisible.

These are the operating manual of authoritarian systems on this continent. And authoritarianism today is not limited to regimes with a known dictator who has held power for decades. It extends equally to regimes that perform a change of leadership through placebo elections conducted every four to five years, producing a new face every eight to ten years while the same system of impunity, patronage and repression remains structurally intact.

I would argue that these are in fact the more dangerous form of authoritarianism because their citizens are deceived into believing they are living under a democracy when they are in reality governed by plutocrats. The citizen under an obvious dictatorship at least knows what he is fighting. The citizen under a rotating plutocracy has been convinced there is nothing to fight at all. He votes, he watches a new face take the oath, and he mistakes the performance of transition for the substance of change. He ends up with no voice, no justice, no agency, and worse, no drive to fight for his own dignity. For one can only fight for liberation after acknowledging one's condition of oppression.