Buluma Mawaggali

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[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. John Stuart Mill.

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

Each generation inherits the task of shaping its own era, of guiding history to become a place where the dignity of every person is safeguarded, justice is promoted and fraternity is made possible.

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[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

.@MbuyiseniNdlozi a polite comment.

As the Prof said, black SA was completely blindsided by white supremacy during the transition of the 1990s. They didn't know the ecosystem they were dealing with. Yet, yet... if they had studied the Kenyan example closely, they would have seen this coming. Kenya did the same thing: pontificated about sending out the British through armed struggle, but settled into aspiring for the same institutions that had oppressed us. If you read Maloba's analysis of Jomo Kenyatta, you understand that Nelson Mandela was being repurposed to fit that model: the old man who forgave his oppressors and wanted a rainbow nation. Yes, Kenya did that.

Meanwhile, Kenya does the same performance as South Africa: loud pontifications about ethnic culture and decolonizing, when really, we're virtue signaling to Massa that "yes, we Africans don't know anything and need you to give us access to modernity." This tribalism SA has sanitized as a concern with "illegal immigrants" is black S.Africans being sent back to their tribal cocoons, the same ones the British designed for Kenyans, and to which we Kenyans return at every election.

There's nothing original about Jacinta's and that other fellow's dancing around. We do it in Kenya all the time. It's a tragedy that it's presented as original. And that you didn't even discuss it in this conversation, yet it is the elephant in the room.

Whatever South Africa imagines it's doing, Kenya has been there, done that. The fact that South Africa has minerals and industry is a minor detail. Whatever South Africans do with industries, we Kenyans have conservancies. Be it industry or conservancies, they perform the same social function: keeping Africans poor and whites rich.

Irris warrirris.

[Foundation for Economic Education @feeonline]

“The greater the sacrifice imposed on one who engages in some activity, the less he will engage in that activity. This law – the law of demand – holds in all societies and is a beautifully verified law of economics.”

- Armen Alchian 🧐

[Foundation for Economic Education @feeonline]

“Politicians maximize their own objectives, including power, income, ideology, and patronage subject to the ‘constraints’ imposed by elections.”

- Charles Rowley 😯

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

@Safaricom_Care Not helping. Whatever page that link is directing to, not familiar. Been using MySafaricom app for years for this very service.... there's no active data share at the moment

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

@Safaricom_Care did you guys disable data sharing? Been trying whole day.

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

"The intellectual mood in Nairobi is softened by enterprise. Even the social impact crowd seems more likely to speak the language of scale, platforms, mobile money and market access than nationalisation, redistribution and state led salvation."

[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

Nairobi, final reflections.

Despite Nairobi being a haven of NGO work, impact funds, climate workshops and every species of grant funded virtue, one hears far less of the heavy socialist sermonising that so often drifts through Southern Africa. Why is that? I didn’t find a Karl Marx road as we did in Maputo….

Perhaps Kenya’s commercial bloodstream is simply too strong. Nairobi may host the NGO cathedral, but outside its stained glass windows the city is hustling: traders, founders, developers, agents, boda boda, financiers, exporters, coders and small businessmen all trying to make a shilling before the next traffic jam. The traffic jams here in the middle of high traffic and rain are extortion writ large. But the uber driver earning thrice the fee wasn’t complaining. Nor should we, but the wait time at a restaurant can stretch up to two hours, with the usual retort of “I’m almost there” serving as a signal to order the next dawa.

The intellectual mood in Nairobi is softened by enterprise. Even the social impact crowd seems more likely to speak the language of scale, platforms, mobile money and market access than nationalisation, redistribution and state led salvation.

Southern Africa, by contrast, still carries a heavier liberation era grammar. Politics there often begins with the state, the party, the struggle and the promise that history owes someone something. Nairobi feels more impatient with that theatre. It has its own dysfunctions, certainly, but its instinct is more transactional, more entrepreneurial, more “where is the opportunity?” than “where is the manifesto?” That may be why, even in a city full of NGOs, capitalism still manages to keep the microphone.

I like it here….

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

@MrCharlesky Interested please inbox application procedure

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

@IRANinKENYA One Love. Bob Marley.

[Iran in Ghana @IRAN_GHANA]

Dear Italy,
Your PM just defended Pope and lost an ally in Washington — the Commander in Grief, yet the most 'powerfool'man on earth.

We'd like to apply for the vacancy.

Our qualifications: 7,000 years of civilization, a shared love of poetry, architecture, and food that takes longer to prepare than Trump's attention span.

The only thing Iran and Italy have ever fought over is who invented ice cream. Faloodeh came first. Gelato came louder. We've been in a 'cold' war over this for 2,000 years.

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

@IRANinKENYA @jmollel Details please

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

Well, that's deep

[George Tsitati @Tsitati_George]

I have read all of Dostoevsky's books, and if there is one thing I have learned, it’s that reading Dostoevsky is less a literary preference and more a measure of how deeply one has made peace with suffering.

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

On Crime and Punishment...

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

"You can't be serious!" Razumihin cried at last. "What you say is fearful! To say killing can be just! That, to my mind...is more terrible than official killing."

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

Tragedy of the Commons

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

The Underground Man

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 This is just perfect

[Buluma Mawaggali @mawaggali]

@XivTroy Reminds of this