LizzY

Development Conversations. Pan-Africanist.

[LizzY @lizemo]

@ImbayiK Kwa IG highlights amepost Patrice Lumumba kama inspiration for the fit.

[LizzY @lizemo]

@Wordslinger__ He's posted Patrice Lumumba as his inspiration on his IG highlights

[DJ KROWBAR @DJKrowbar]

I am 41yrs old... 40s are crazy. Some people have 3yr olds, others have teens, others are grandparents. Some are dating 26yr olds others look like they are 60yrs.

It looks like a confused group project.

[JJ @Jomilojju]

In the UK, autism was first described by studying white, middle-class boys.

That became the template. Everyone else is measured against it.

Girls learn to mask early. By the time anyone looks, there is nothing visible to assess.

Black children are labelled difficult. The behaviour that would trigger a referral for one child triggers a disciplinary conversation for another.

Brown children are told they are shy. The quietness is cultural, they say. The waiting continues.

The assessment tool does not move. The child is expected to fit it.

Diagnostic bias did not enter the system by accident. The system was built on a narrow template. The calls to expand it have not been answered.

In Nigeria, the same child is not waiting for a better assessment. There is no assessment to wait for.

One country built a tool for one child and called it universal. Another has no tool at all. Both children are failed before they are seen.

Equity means rebuilding the tool. And building the road to reach it.

🧠⚖️

#AutismAcceptanceMonth

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

General William Westmoreland, the American commander in Vietnam, said that Asians do not value human life the way Westerners do.

He said this to explain why Vietnamese soldiers kept fighting despite losses that would have broken Western armies.

He did not say: perhaps they are fighting for something worth dying for.

He did not say: perhaps our intelligence about their will to fight was wrong.

He did not say: perhaps we have fundamentally misunderstood this enemy.

He said: they don't value life.

This is what happens when an army built on the premise of its own civilizational superiority meets a people who simply refuse to accept that premise.

The army cannot update its model.

It cannot say "we were wrong about who these people are."

So it invents a theory where the enemy's resistance is not a sign of strength but a sign of deficiency.

They keep fighting because life is cheap to them.

Not because their cause is just.

Not because they are brave.

Because they are less than us.

Westmoreland ran the war for years on this theory.

He lost.

The Vietnamese people, who apparently did not value life, built a country that is alive and growing and free.

Westmoreland died in 2005.

The people he could not understand are still here.

So is the theory.

[Rodgers Kipembe Mpuru @RodgersKipembe]

People died yesterday.

[Kanairaw @kanairaw1]

.@JulianiKenya at his prime was so respected that in 2015 he posted a photo with Khaligraph, Octopizzo and King Kaka and captioned it:

"The only one with more bars than the three combined is me."

And nobody really argued.

Juliani was the rapper who made you think, not just nod to the beats.

In 2008, he became the first Kenyan artist ever signed to a UK record label, Gatwitch Records, which produced his landmark album Mtaa Mentality in December 2008, featuring hits like Hela, Biceps, and Who is to Blame featuring Eric Wainaina.

In 2013 he produced Utawala, which became a protest classic and one of the most politically charged songs in Kenyan hip-hop history.

Utawala now sits alongside Eric Wainaina's Nchi Ya Kitu Kidogo and Gidi Gidi Maji Maji's Unbwogable as one of the most impactful political songs in Kenyan music history.

In my books, he is the best lyricist to ever walk on Kenyan soil
"Nikiwa na nguvu ya kung'oa reli definitely kuinua kura si nzito ukiingiza kwa ballot box"

[スズキ🦛 @Naughtie0]

Kwa Insha yangu nilikua strict ajab..ukikunywa pombe unakufa

[Bane @MisterAlbie]

This is why this is my dream house

[FRANKLIN @WaruhiuFranklin]

A portfolio with Safaricom, EABL, KCB, HFCK, DTB, COOP, KPLC, Kenya Re has delivered an average return of about 60% to 80% YTD (excluding dividends) depending on allocation and rebalancing. Dividends will boost total returns for most of these stocks.

This portfolio outperformed NSE indices like NASI which is up +49.5% YTD due to heavy exposure to the best performing stocks like KPLC, HFCK and Kenya Re.

In Q2 2026 you will need to rebalance your portfolio. This means trimming your winners and accumulating more of the laggards (underperforming stocks). I will reduce the exposure to KPLC, HFCK, DTB, COOP, KCB, EABL and accumulate more Safaricom, StanChart, Stanbic, I&M, Kenya Re, and Car & General shares. I would allocate more weights to StanChart, I&M, Safaricom and Car & General in 2026.

Learn more about allocation (weights) and portfolio rebalancing.
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[Child HealthHero @ChildHealthhero]

If you find yourself getting tired after just a short walk, a little housework, or a quick activity, your body might be saying “slow down, I need care too.”

Common reasons include:
👉🏽Low fitness level; your body may just need gradual exercise.

👉🏽Poor sleep; when you don’t rest well, even small tasks feel heavy.

👉🏽Low iron or vitamins; can make you feel weak quickly.

👉🏽Stress; it drains your energy without you even noticing.

[JEW @Langatt_KE]

Imagine if African schools taught:
- Kemetic mathematics
- Dogon astronomy
- Ethiopian philosophy
- Sahelian architecture
- Bantu governance
- African herbal medicine
- African ethics
- African spiritual systems

We'd produce geniuses - not colonial clones.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

A professor once explained ‘marketing’ like this:

1. You tell a girl, “I’m rich, marry me.”- That’s Direct Marketing.
2. Your friend tells her you’re rich- That’s Advertising.
3. She walks up to you and says, “You’re rich, marry me.”-That’s Brand Recognition.
4. You tell her you’re rich and she slaps you. - That’s Customer Feedback.
5. Before you say anything, your wife arrives.- That’s Market Restriction. 😄

[J.B. Sauceda @jaybsauceda]

No one tells you how many versions of your marriage you’ll live through.

The newlywed version.
The exhausted new-parent version.
The “ships passing in the night” version.
The “we’re both stressed but trying” version.
The one person is thriving and the other is struggling version.
And the version where you finally find each other again.

Priss and I have learned that long-term relationships aren’t straight steady lines. They’re seasons.

The trick we’ve learned isn’t avoiding the hard ones.

It’s finding ways, big and small, to prioritize each other.

[Travis Miller @travismillerx13]

🇰🇪Kenyan sweep in NYC

[Chidanand Tripathi @thetripathi58]

STOP SAYING “SUMMARIZE THIS” TO CHATGPT

Use these 7 smarter prompts instead:

[Jaoko Oburu Odinga @jaokoburu]

Goodbye, Baba. May your spirit always protect us.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Had a mentor tell me once: "When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do... get organized and get to work. The rest is just noise. Peace is found in progress."

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

Don’t mistake your fear of vocabulary for my lack of substance. I don’t simplify brilliance to fit in your mental bedsitter.