Ivy Kirima

Season of self-love and self-discovery💋

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

720kes sandwich double cheese burger with bacon at Burger King. Can someone please show me where the bacon is? When did this become acceptable? @burgerkingke?

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

@Maryian96 This guy 🤣🤣🤣 the impeachment was the worst thing Ruto did!

[Onyi Claude @onyangoclaude]

@ntvkenya You can’t force the majority to swallow your ideology or bow to your favoured leader. If the people want him out, that’s it..no amount of speeches, propaganda, or nostalgia for Moi will change that. Leadership isn’t a birthright, it’s earned.

[arrryyyy 🐐 @dube1286]

One guy has messed up the mental health of an entire country.

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

@citizentvkenya We are sinking daily in those potholes for God’s sake!!!!

[Uche is a girl 🇻🇦 @UcheMaryOkoli]

Our Lady of Fatima presented several messages to the three Fatima children, but did you know Sister Lucia dos Santos received apparitions after 1917?

Sister Lucia was the oldest of the three Fatima seers. She outlived her two younger cousins, Jacinta and Francisco, who died within a couple of years of the 1917 apparitions.

As of June 22, 2023, Sister Lucia is on a path to canonization after Pope Francis announced the advancement of her cause.

Sister Lucia experienced visions of both Our Lady and Our Lord in her convent for many years following the initial 1917 apparitions.

The National Catholic Register reported,
In 1943, Our Lord appeared to Sister Lucia and told her that what he desired was the fulfillment of one’s duties in life and sacrifices that fell in accord with adherence to his Law. This type of penance, he said, was possible for everyone.

In 1948, World Apostolate of Fatima co-founder John Haffert interviewed Sister Lucia.
She told him that the most important request of Fatima is the fulfillment of one's daily duties and the sacrifices required according to God's law. She said praying the Rosary will help one fulfill this obligation.

"Furthermore, she told him, observance of the Five First Saturdays helps one to free oneself from sin and reawakens the commitment to fulfill one’s daily duties," The National Catholic Register reported.
Many saints also believed that fulfilling daily duties led to holiness.

Saint Therese of Lisieux's famous "Little Way" models this Christian obligation.

“Holiness consists simply in doing God's will and being just what God wants us to be,” she said.
Saint John Paul II also emphasized the importance of daily duties in his encyclical, Christifideles Laici, citing Pope Paul VI:

"The lay faithful, in fact, 'are called by God so that they, led by the spirit of the Gospel, might contribute to the sanctification of the world, as from within like leaven, by fulfilling their own particular duties.'"

Our Lord and Our Lady also requested that we devote ourselves to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart:
"Have pity on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother. It is covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to remove them with an act of reparation." (Jesus to Sister Lucia in 1939)

Therefore, Our Lady and Our Lord provided the Five First Saturdays Devotion, which consoles the Immaculate Heart of Mary and makes reparation for the blasphemies committed against her.

This devotion also helps "free oneself from sin and reawakens the commitment to fulfill one’s daily duties."

Let us respond to Our Lady of Fatima's call to fulfill our daily duties, pray the Rosary daily, and practice her Five First Saturdays devotion.

Our Lady of Fatima, please pray for us!

- EWTN

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

@Statikoo How do you clean this house?

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

@KatharinaLeAnn “When the time is right, I the Lord will make it happen” Trust him and his ways, trust that he alone ALWAYS has the best in mind for you.

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

Jesus!

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

That crocodile 🐊 ate so many people 🙆🏻‍♂️🙆🏻‍♂️

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

@themayor_ke What’s stupid man

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

This is the sweetest thing I have come across today!

[GodlyVibez Studios @GVStudios_TV]

🚨Young girl has "Jesus" themed birthday party❤️

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

@chiamaka___o Congratulations!

[Amara @Amara_Grace2]

1. I’m an overthinker and very emotional.

2. I hate late replies

3. I love calls and I'm very clingy

4. We must talk every day because I don’t see the point of being in a relationship with someone I barely communicate with.

5. I reciprocate energy. If you’re sweet, I’m sweet. If you’re nonchalant, I’ll be the same.

6. I need reassurance sometimes. If you’re the type that doesn’t like expressing feelings, you might find me a bit “too much.”

7. Once I start caring about you deeply, I expect consistency, not hot and cold behavior.

8. I notice little changes in behavior quickly.

9. I ask a lot of “are you okay?” questions.

10. I value consistency a lot.

11. I like attention from my partner.

12. And if something is bothering me, I’ll want us to talk about it instead of ignoring it.

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

@luhya_kidd Rest in eternal peace.

[KABUGO @Kabugo_]

Ever notice... the season you start praying seriously is the same season life starts falling apart? That’s not coincidence. You asked God to build you. He started with demolition.

[Ivy Kirima @kirima_i]

@berrysweetmum Hello. I am currently praying for Saint Joseph’s intercession on an urgent request of mine and feeling really discouraged. Please could you ask him to please answer me on my behalf? Thank you.

[MethoDman @polo_kimanii]

Nairobi SeaBD 22:00hrs

[jamal cheaib | جمال شعيب @JamalCheaib]

The Architecture of Failure: Why "Incompetence" Doesn't Explain Global Poverty

The argument is a familiar one, often whispered in diplomatic corridors or shouted in political debates: The developing world isn't poor because the West stole their resources; they are poor because they are incapable of managing them.

On the surface, the logic seems sound. We look at nations like Venezuela, sitting atop the world's largest oil reserves while its citizens go hungry. We look at the African continent, where departing European powers left behind thousands of miles of railways and roads, only to see them swallowed by the jungle or rusted into obsolescence.

If the developing world was handed the keys to the kingdom—functioning supply chains and unlimited wealth—why have they failed to unlock prosperity? The answer requires us to move beyond the surface-level symptoms of corruption and incompetence and examine the underlying "operating system" of these nations, through the lens of logic, history, and international law.

The Mirage of Inheritance

The most compelling part of the "incompetence" argument is the physical legacy of colonization. It posits that newly independent nations inherited "fully functioning" economies.

However, this relies on a logical fallacy regarding the purpose of infrastructure. If you examine a colonial-era map of Africa, the design becomes clear.

Railways and roads were not built like a spiderweb to connect cities, foster internal trade, or build a domestic market. They were built like chutes—running in straight lines from a mine or a plantation directly to a port.

This is extraction architecture. When the colonial powers left, these nations didn't inherit a "network"; they inherited a series of one-way streets designed to drain wealth, not create it. Under the logic of economics, maintaining a railway that only goes to a port is useless if the foreign buyer sets trade barriers or if you are trying to build a domestic economy. The infrastructure fell into disrepair not simply because the new administrators were "lazy," but because the infrastructure was economically unviable for a sovereign nation trying to serve its own people rather than a foreign empire.

The Institutional Void and the "Scorched Earth"

The argument that developing nations "don't know how to administer" ignores the legal reality of how they were formed.

Under international law, the borders of many developing nations were drawn arbitrarily by European powers (most notably at the Berlin Conference of 1884). These borders grouped rival ethnic and religious groups together while splitting cohesive communities apart. When independence came, the new leaders weren't just tasked with "administering resources"; they were tasked with managing artificial nations designed for internal conflict.

Furthermore, the transition of power was rarely the benevolent "handover" often imagined. In many cases, it was a "scorched earth" withdrawal. When Guinea voted for independence from France in 1958, the departing administration famously stripped the country bare—taking lightbulbs, blueprints for sewage systems, and even burning medicines.

This created an institutional void. Administration requires bureaucracy—tax agencies, courts, civil services. Colonial regimes were generally autocracies designed to keep order, not service-oriented bureaucracies. The "software" of democratic governance was never installed. Therefore, the failure to run these systems is often less about a lack of innate ability and more about the total absence of institutional memory or transitional support—a violation of the spirit of the UN Right to Development, which emphasizes the need for an enabling environment for development.

The Venezuela Paradox: Corruption vs. The Resource Curse

The case of Venezuela is frequently cited as the ultimate proof of incompetence. How can a country with so much oil be so poor?

While corruption and mismanagement by the Venezuelan leadership are debatable, attributing the collapse solely to them ignores the economic phenomenon known as the "Resource Curse" (or Dutch Disease).

Logic dictates that when a nation relies entirely on one resource, its currency value skyrockets, killing off all other industries like farming or manufacturing. When the price of that resource crashes (as oil invariably does), the country has no safety net.

Additionally, international relations play a massive role here. Sovereignty—a core tenet of the UN Charter—implies the right to trade. However, sanctions and geopolitical isolation often cut these nations off from the global banking systems required to maintain their infrastructure. It becomes a feedback loop: bad governance leads to sanctions, sanctions lead to infrastructure collapse, and the collapse reinforces the poverty.

The "Training" Deficit and Human Rights

Finally, there is the defense that "Europeans didn't teach them." This is often framed as a failure of benevolence, but it is actually a human rights issue.

For generations, indigenous populations were legally barred from higher education and administrative roles under colonial rule. This was a systemic denial of the Right to Education (UDHR Article 26). When independence arrived, there was a massive deficit in human capital—not because the population was incapable of learning, but because they had been actively prevented from doing so.

Even today, when brilliant minds from the developing world do emerge, the global economy encourages "Brain Drain." Engineers and administrators migrate to Western nations for stability and higher wages. In a cruel twist of irony, the developing world ends up subsidizing the workforce of the very nations that once colonized them.

Conclusion
It is undeniable that corruption, tyranny, and poor planning plague the developing world. Leaders must be held accountable for their choices. However, to say they are poor only because they "don't know how to run their countries" is a simplification that defies logic.

They are playing a game where the board was built for their failure (extraction infrastructure), the teams were mismatched by force (arbitrary borders), and the rulebook (international trade law) favors the established players. They weren't just robbed of resources; they were robbed of the time and stability required to learn how to manage them.

Would you like me to analyze a specific "success story" like Botswana to see how they managed to escape these traps?

[Nandi 🤍💜🤍 @pallnandi]

Some of you are building your entire relationship mindset off social media lies, and it’s costing you real connection. Today let’s put a few of them to rest.

Ready? Let’s start with the most popular ones.

Walk with me. A 🧵