Kizito Makokha

Vox populi, vox dei.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

LETTER FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS TO HARRIET TUBMAN

Rochester, August 29, 1868

Dear Harriet,

I am glad to know that the story of your eventful life has been written by a kind lady, and that the same is soon to be published. You ask for what you do not need when you call upon me for a word of commendation. I need such words from you far more than you can need them from me, especially where your superior labors and devotion to the cause of the lately enslaved of our land are known as I know them.

The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day – you in the night. I have had the applause of the crowd and the satisfaction that comes of being approved by the multitude, while the most that you have done has been witnessed by a few trembling, scarred, and foot-sore bondmen and women, whom you have led out of the house of bondage, and whose heartfelt, “God bless you,” has been your only reward.

The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown – of sacred memory – I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have. Much that you have done would seem improbable to those who do not know you as I know you. It is to me a great pleasure and a great privilege to bear testimony for your character and your works, and to say to those to whom you may come, that I regard you in every way truthful and trustworthy.

Your friend,
Frederick Douglass.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.”

—James Baldwin

[Mutembei TV @MutembeiTV]

Family Drama as Captain Waweru Finally Sues Wife With Assault!!He Claims She Registered all his Properties in her Name!The Wife Didn't Want the Media to cover the Case but Judge Said Cover it!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy sh*t, Hunter Biden is NAMING NAMES.
Pissed off Hunter is the BEST Hunter. 🤣🤣

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@SenOssoff (D-GA) says Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) needs to "come out of hiding" and "provide information Georgia voters deserve to know," after his reportedly close ties to a white supremacist and neo-Nazi propagandist.

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

''Usijam na hujamaliza slums,'' Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna responds to President Ruto

[WILLIE OEBA @WillieOeba]

“Will I be safe hapo ndani” breaks my heart.

Arrest Eliud Langat !

[Nelson Havi SC @NelsonHavi]

Edwin Sifuna in his forties has declared intention to run for President in 2027. Moses Wetangula and Musalia Mudavadi both in the late sixties prefer to run in 2032. The Luhya community must decide either to be served by young man with determination or to be slaves to old-men without foresight.

[Naomi Waithira @Naomikibandi]

"As elders and Sifuna's parents we are ready to support and Bless him on Sunday. This is Sifuna”s time. Even Amos wako has told me he will attend. We are tired of mudavadi and Wetang'ula" -Fred Gumo

[Stephen Mutoro @smutoro]

Stripped of his ODM Prado and every title Baba once gave him, Edwin Sifuna isn’t walking — he’s rolling in style.
🌻Ibrahim Ambwere, the same man who once offered Sh48M of his OWN money to bail out broke teachers in the ’80s, just handed him THREE Land Cruisers.
🌻Why? Because Mzee Atoli dared call himself “the” Luyha kingpin with State House access. Ambwere’s reply wasn’t words — it was three engines’ worth of receipts.
🌻Message: Sifuna’s 2027 bid no longer needs ODM’s blessing. It needs Ambwere’s ignition key #EdwinSifuna2027

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Pentagon confirms both Russia and China are helping Iran, as another missile slips past American defenses in Jordan.

-Hegseth said Moscow and Beijing are "at different levels, enabling some of the things Iran is doing," while insisting the depth of it "ought to remain classified"

-A source tells the NY Post that a fresh Iranian attack Wednesday evaded U.S. defenses and slammed into a weapons depot near the same Jordanian base where three Americans were killed, throwing up a "mushroom cloud"

-The same source claims foreign intelligence warned of the strike around 10:30 a.m. and the defenses still failed, with a U.S. official declining comment citing operational security

-Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg's assessment: "I think it is Russians primarily helping with targeting"

-Reuters reported analysts are probing Russian-enhanced Shaheds used against CIA facilities in the Gulf

Iran is fighting better than its own engineering explains, and that gap now has two names attached to it.

Every missile that finds a barracks or a depot is also a data point flowing back to Moscow and Beijing about exactly how American air defense fails.

Source: New York Post / Writer: Daniel

[MUSAFIR @MusafirNafar]

Journalist: “You've said that Russia should repay for reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should repay for reconstruction of Gaza?”

EU chief spokesperson: “I have no comment at this stage.”

*Days later, the journalist is fired*

[Harrison Mumia @harrison_mumia]

EVIL man. 🚮

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Al Jazeera confirms Iran is systematically dismantling the American presence in the Gulf.

They just launched a massive drone swarm against a vital Kuwaiti border crossing!

The Pentagon is terrified. Washington's disastrous war is completely backfiring!

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Michael Jackson wrote the lyrics to an unreleased and unrecorded song titled "Palestine, Don't Cry". He drafted the lyrics in 1993—reportedly while on a flight—and originally intended to include it on his 1995 double album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I.
The song never progressed past the writing stage. The handwritten lyrics, penned on British Airways stationery, did not make the final album cut and were later sold at auction. The text of the song expresses deep empathy for the suffering caused by the historical conflict in the region and features lines directly pleading for peace.

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Kaikai’s Kicker: Parents, don’t explain, don’t apologise!
#CitizenNewsGang @LinusKaikai

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta admits the Pentagon is completely humiliated.

He confirms the US, Saudis, and UAE all tried to destroy the Houthis and completely failed.

He reveals Washington has absolutely no viable military strategy. Total defeat!

[Peris @Wambuib4sky]

Unless this guy is arrested and charged, I'll never believe that justice exists under William Ruto's regime.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Rome built stadiums to stop its own people from rising up. Two thousand years later, we're still walking into the same trap — only we pay for it now.

Al Jazeera's Basel Ghazoghli breaks it down.