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#MandelaLecture I wish Obama made some of these views on democracy, freedom of speech , free press, freedom to protest, etc during his trip to Kenya when he was President. Makes it hard to believe he means what he says.
One of the greatest ironies in Kenyan history is that the Mau Mau remained an officially banned organization until 2003, four decades after independence.
The British branded them terrorists, and independent Kenya kept the ban in place.
It was only after President Mwai Kibaki came to power that the prohibition was lifted, finally giving legal recognition to the movement that had shed so much blood for Kenya's freedom.
"I would boil cannabis leaves and drink them like tea every evening to cure my back pain." MP David Ochieng' confesses in Parliament that he uses bhang whenever he returns to his home constituency of Ugenya.
Leave those grant things alone my loving Africa. What we have is infinite. Don't be giving energy to extraction. They'll find us here as they always do. But must be on our own terms. Maximise on Founders effect.
They control through fear and disinformation. Don't buy it, don't help them sell it... If you must take their money and go on with your business... Africa has never been sick.
Mike Tyson says he earned $400,000,000 in his boxing career, then spent his last dollar on rehab
"I spent my last money that I had from fighting on rehab, over $3,000,000 on rehab. And I used to have enough money left, like $2,000,000 of my whole life left"
"And I bought a house in Phoenix for a while. And then, the house was difficult to sell. But somebody loved them, pulled me, gave me the money, this is God working"
"Then I get a house in Vegas. That becomes the couch and everything, 'cause I don't have no money to weed"
"You got some money? You can come stay over. You got some money, you can throw a party at my house. I would let guys hold my car if they have money, that's how I was hustling"
Even if America decides that i should no longer enter America, itβs okay i will enter Zimbabwe and Botswana. Why should i be concerned about people who are going to feed me burgers, and make me Fat?β
~ Julius Malema