Rae

Farmer | Manufacturer | Joyful | Dessert lover

[Hopemidah @hopemidah]

I'll just leave it here. If it's true then we don't have a country

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

“Excessive dancing invites disorder and demons.”

“For Her Majesty’s Government, keep the natives orderly.”

Colonial rule was not just about controlling land and labour. It was about controlling culture, expression, assembly, and identity.

The language sounds ridiculous today. The mentality should concern us even more.
#DecoloniseGovernance #ReKe #PeoplePower

[Ndung'u Wainaina @NdunguWainaina]

Never decouple William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta.

They are Siamese twins of political treachery and economic devastation.

Anything else is narratives.

End.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨🇰🇪 KENYA WAKE UP!

800 French troops have arrived in Mombasa with warships.

Just 55km away sits Mrima Hills - $62 BILLION in rare earth minerals and niobium.

This comes right after our new defence deal that gives them immunity and broad access.

They say it's only "training".

But Africa has seen this exact play before.

Why are foreign armies positioning next to our most valuable resources while our people stay poor?

Leaders must secure Kenya's wealth for Kenyans first.

Time to speak out loud.

This cannot be another quiet sellout.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

Nearly half of Kenya’s projected FY 2026/2027 budget will go to debt servicing instead of development.

Out of the Ksh 4.82 trillion budget, taxpayers will pay approximately Ksh 2.3 trillion toward debt obligations, including Ksh 1.3 trillion consumed purely by loan interest payments before meaningful development spending even begins.

Under Kenyan law, debt repayment is a “first charge” on national revenue. Creditors are paid first, before hospitals, schools, counties, agriculture, or public services.

At the same time, Kenya continues borrowing heavily to repay maturing loans and cover budget deficits. The public debt has now risen to approximately Ksh 12.4 trillion, while ordinary citizens continue facing unemployment, high taxation, failing services, and rising economic hardship.

Kenyans must ask:
Who borrowed this money?
Were all these loans borrowed procedurally as per the constitution?
Who benefited?
Why should citizens repay debts arising from corruption, secrecy, inflated contracts, and mismanagement?

An odious debt is not a people’s debt. It is a regime debt.

This constitutional and economic battle continues in court.

The matter comes up on 25th June 2026 at the Milimani Law Courts.

Kenyans must remain vigilant. This fight is about economic justice, accountability, and the future of our Republic. #DeniBandia #OdiousDebt #ReKe

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

There are days I envy those who carry no political consciousness whatsoever. Those who move through the world unburdened by the knowledge of the systems producing their suffering, indifferent to the past, unconcerned with the future, existing in the simple present of their own lives. There must be a peace in that innocence that I recognise from a distance and will never again be able to reach.

And there are days, more than I care to admit, when I wish I could unlearn everything I have learned, unsee what I have seen and return to the person I was before the knowledge settled into my bones and made indifference permanently impossible.

Because what nobody tells you about political consciousness is that it is not a gift but a weight. It does not liberate you from suffering. Rather, it adds to your suffering the particular anguish of understanding exactly why you are suffering and watching the vast majority of those around you remain unreachable, not out of malice but out of an exposure they never had, an experience they never lived, a set of doors that were never opened for them. You cannot share what you carry with people who do not have the vocabulary to receive it.

And so you carry it largely alone, in public spaces that mistake your urgency for performance and in private moments that offer no relief. There are days I genuinely want to go back to not knowing. I understand why that is impossible but I want it anyway.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

The nation that arranged the poisoning of Toussaint Louverture of St Domingue ( Haïti) for demanding the end of slavery and the liberation of his people in 1803; that assassinated Ruben Um Nyobe, the Cameroonian independence leader hunted down and killed in 1958 by French forces before independence was even formally granted, that had Felix Moumie of Cameroon, poisoned in Geneva by his intelligence in 1960, that orchestrated the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio of Togo by soldiers of his colonial army in 1963, that armed and protected the man who murdered Thomas Sankara in 1987 and sheltered him for decades, that supported the destabilisation that led to the overthrow and death of Modibo Keita of Mali, that printed millions of fake currency to destroy the Guinean Franc after 8 failed assassination attempts at Sekou Toure because he stood his grounds and demanded independence, that stood behind the forces that removed and destroyed Patrice Lumumba, coordinating with Belgium and the CIA to ensure Congo’s most visionary independence leader did not survive his own government, that massacred at least 100,000 Malagasy people, 250,000 Cameroonians, 1.2 million Algerians between 1955 and 1962 simply because they demanded their independence.

The president of that nation, less than half a century after committing such atrocities stood before a room full of African heads of state in 2026 and declared itself the true Pan-Africanist. And not one of them stood up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Not one said: you cannot use that word: not here, not with that history on this continent. Not a single one had the dignity to say what any person with an elementary knowledge of what Pan-Africanism means and what France has done to those who practiced it would have said immediately and without hesitation.

It is the equivalent of a Nazi leader standing before a Jewish assembly and announcing that Germany is the true defender of the Jewish people. There are words that carry such historical mass that no political convenience, no diplomatic ambition, no funding arrangement justifies allowing them to be stolen and worn by those who spent generations trying to destroy what those words represent; Pan-Africanism is one of those words. And it was surrendered in that room without a fight, by men who were supposed to be there representing us.

France is not even a formidable power anymore. It cannot impose its will on its own European neighbourhood. Its economy is strained, its global influence is null, its African military presence has been expelled. It intimidates no one who has chosen not to be intimidated. And yet these boneless, prideless, senseless humans we call Africa leaders sat and applauded this humiliation ritual.

What breaks me is knowing that every generation, without fail, produces its quota of leaders who will trade the dignity of their people for a photograph with a western head of state, for a seat at a table that was never set for them. They dress it up as pragmatism and call it diplomacy. But it is the oldest and most contemptible transaction in the postcolonial playbook: the surrender of collective dignity for personal visibility.

And these are days, I will not pretend otherwise, where I genuinely wonder if we will ever be free.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Not because the struggle is not real or the people are not capable, but because freedom requires leaders at the decisive moment, and every decisive moment seems to find us represented by spineless, glory-hunting, photograph-chasing men who would sell the graves of their own predecessors for a handshake with those that tried to erase their people. Every generation inherits the fight for freedom but also produces the cowards who auction it.

[Samuel Constante @milenialmentor]

Anthropic acaba de mostrar un taller de 24 minutos sobre cómo realmente hacer prompts a Claude.

Impartido por las personas que lo construyeron.

Gratis. Sin registro. Sin muro de pago.

He visto cursos de $300 que no cubren lo que enseñan en los primeros 8 minutos.

[Elvis @Elvis_Localman]

I have made a video of 251 unfulfilled promises of WANTAM UDA govt led by Kasongo Nabii in Kiswahili for mass reach. It’s worth Watching & sharing✅ with your friends and family.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

Harry Truman once said: “The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”

Fellow Kenyans, our crisis did not begin yesterday.

The looting. The illegal debt. The betrayal of the Constitution. The collapse of public services. The silence of career politicians. These are old scripts repeated by leaders who believe Kenyans forget quickly.

They believe another scandal will trend. Another distraction will come. Another funeral, another handshake, another coalition, another slogan.

Meanwhile, you pay more taxes for debts you never approved and never benefited from.

Between 2014 and 2024, Kenya borrowed Sh9.11 trillion. Only Sh2.57 trillion received proper parliamentary approval. The remaining Sh6.54 trillion is odious debt, unconstitutional borrowing forced onto the backs of struggling citizens.

This is why food prices rise while wages stagnate. This is why hospitals lack medicine while billions disappear. This is why schools decline while politicians grow richer. This is why young people graduate into hopelessness.

And while Kenya bleeds, legacy politicians remain silent. Many are not fighting to fix the system. They are fighting to inherit it.

They criminalize protesters. They weaponize police. They reward political loyalists with advisory jobs funded by taxpayers. They protect corruption networks while ordinary Kenyans suffer.

We go to court because the Constitution is the last line of defense between the people and organized state plunder.

From the struggle for independence in 1963, to Saba Saba, to the 2010 Constitution, every generation of Kenyans has been called to defend freedom against greed and impunity. History is watching us now.

If we remain silent while our country is looted, future generations will remember us as the people who watched Kenya collapse and did nothing.

Read history. Defend the Constitution. Reject fear. Reject silence. Reject thieves disguised as leaders.

We must be a nation that reads, remembers, and refuses to be misled by the same old tricks. Know your history, defend your rights, and let us not be "newly" surprised by what we should have already learned.

Kenya istahili heshima

#OdiousDebt
#ReKe
#Constitutionalism

[Cerebral Assassin @xysist]

Adolf Kitler

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Kenya Ratifies Defence Pact Granting Immunity to French Troops

Kenya’s parliament has ratified a new defence pact with France, presented as a partnership on maritime security and free trade in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

But beneath that language is a troubling immunity clause that shields French troops from prosecution in Kenya. In simple terms, if a French soldier violates the rights of Kenyan citizens while operating under this agreement, Kenyan authorities would have no real power to hold them accountable.

This raises serious questions about Kenya’s sovereignty and why African governments continue to sign agreements that protect foreign military personnel more than their own citizens.

[Rae @nakinj]

On behalf of the people of Kenya we too look forward to sending empty condolences to your families when your time comes.

[Hon. Aden Duale, EGH @HonAdenDuale]

On behalf of the Ministry of Health, I convey deep sorrow following the passing of Dr. Job Obwaka at the age of 83, a veteran obstetrician and former Director at the Nairobi Hospital.

Dr. Obwaka devoted his life to advancing medical practice in Kenya, leaving an invaluable contribution to the medical fraternity through his clinical excellence, leadership and mentorship of generations of practitioners.

His work significantly strengthened standards of care and improved outcomes in maternal and reproductive health services across the country.

We honour his distinguished service and commitment to humanity and we extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, colleagues and the wider medical community during this difficult time.

[Kennedy Wandera @KennedyWandera_]

A fiery speech by South Africa's🇿🇦 EFF leader Julius Malema, over xenophobic attacks targeting foreign nationals.

“You say Zimbabweans take your jobs. Nigerians take your jobs.

You march, close shops and beat up people. Tell us after doing that how many jobs have you created, by beating up these Nigerians, Zimbabweans and Ghanaians?

You beat people because they took your jobs.

You close a shop that hires people. How many have you created after beating and chasing them?

Unskilled men, with no skills, none whatsoever, say somebody took away their jobs. I don't want your votes if you behave like that. Take them away.

Pushing out of school an African child that looks like you, I will never do that. You can take your votes. Make me die with my conscience very clearly.

I will never refuse a pregnant woman of African descent to give birth in the clinics of South Africa. Never!”

[i am @_reamus]

FYI the @IMFNews gave themselves IMMUNITY from prosecution a whole year before Kenya became a republic in 1964.
Kenya is a colonial outpost.

[Bluesman Comedian @Bluesman_Comedy]

Okiya Omtatah has a point.
Guys wake up.

[i am @_reamus]

I believe it's time we all read the original draft or whatever treaty for independence we ever signed.
What do you mean the @IMFNews invoke immunity all the way from year of independence.
That the clearest mark of bad faith, preparing a way out for yourself before a so called sovereign nation ever became a republic.

[LANDLORD🇰🇪 @bozgabi]

If you come across this post on your timeline kindly retweet widely. A child is missing 😔😔

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

Neocolonialism deniers are having a rough year, and perhaps that discomfort should become a learning experience rather than another excuse for defensiveness.

The deeper frustration is that some of them have always understood the dynamics at play; they simply choose to frame them differently because they are drawn to power and want to keep a sanitized social media footprint for a visa application.

[I am Chege @_James041]

To those who are asking about where to read about the Odious Debts' Petition, @rtunguru made a website highlighting the Ksh 6.9T odious debts petition. Here is the link https://t.co/FyLjS5WA1y
#DeniBandia #ReKe #DrainTheSwamp