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[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

Reading is VERY political.
Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose, articles.
Bless authors.

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

Thank God for fiction and fiction authors.
Bless you.

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

Miriam Makeba performing Jorge Ben's "Chove Chuva" live in Sweden, 1966.

South Africa meets Brasil on a Stockholm stage.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[Dr. Ho Yinsen @kinjeketile]

Again I ask, do we have national plans to respond to this? Are we doing drills?
From quickly diverting flooded roads and sending alerts, training how to use enablers like drones for search and rescuing people on rafts, quickly restoring lost power lines and telco masts etc?

[𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚔 @Dendricck]

Mimi naona tufunge nchi kwanza tukae chini sisi wote tujue vile tutarudisha hii nchi to normal programming all aspects considered. Everything's wrong in this country, politically, mentally, and financially. We are losing it as a collective, honestly.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

My dear brother, Mau Mau fought against land alienation, police violence and lack of sovereignty. They were not alone. The trade unionists, Dini ya Msambwa and Barsirian arap Manyei were also in colonial detention at the same time. What made the status of the Mau Mau different is that the British decided to also engage in collective punishment of the Kikuyu Embu and Meru and pretend that the struggle was ethnic, not political.

So few Kenyans know that the Maasai, the Kamba and the Luhya participated in the Mau Mau. Chief Mukudi of Samia was detained by the British for administering the Mau Mau oath. I saw ES Atieno Odhiambo mention some Luo soldiers in the Nairobi ranks of the Mau Mau but I lost the reference. I'll keep looking for it.

Independence isn't liberation. It's the management of the colonialist state by Africans.

The whites were not chased out. They are still here. They still own land, plantations, mines and major installations. They gave us CBC. They just got a military agreement in Mombasa which exempts soldiers from prosecution. Wazungu didn't leave. They retreated from visibility, but not from power.

Until the late 1950s, the British had no intention of leaving. In their dream, Kenya was to be a multi-racial state. Shortly after, they aimed to leave in 1975. Then after, they decided to leave in 1963, but before they did that, they needed to ensure that Kenya was left in the hands of the sympathizers, your Lancaster people and the #IwenttoAlliance's.

Whites remained in the independence government, protected by Sir Charles Njonjo of Kabeteshire. Bruce Mackenzie was Ministry of Agriculture. Humphrey Slade the Parliament speaker. Goeffrey Griffin, a former information officer, started Starehe. Carey Francis moved to Pangani High School. In 1972, UoN students were violently suppressed by the police after complaining about the architecture department being staffed by wazungu faculty who were failing the students. Guess who was in charge of Nairobi Provincial Police? James Myles Oswald, who had killed many Mau Mau fighters.

The decision of the British to hand over the state to Africans was forced by the African resistance, of which Mau Mau was a major player. The British realized that it would be too expensive to keep suppressing rebellion, especially because the Mau Mau started to regroup in 1961. Plus the whole pan-African world's imagination was captured by the resistance. It was cheaper for the British to have African elites, your favorite Lancaster guys, rather than settlers, in charge. But overall, the British remained in charge from London.

Forcing the British to hand over the colonial state doesn't mean we were liberated. It just means we got black settlers in charge of the state, instead of white ones.

Reading helps even the best and the brightest.

[Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams]

This is what a holocaust looks like.

[Fabio Lugaro @fabiolug]

10 years ago: Sun Ra Arkestra @ Passing Clouds, London, 14th May 2016

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

@TheODMparty Ears to the ground and FOCUS! @TheODMparty

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

ODM as a democratic socialist political party has lost the plot. Having conditions and drawing ultimatums in order to be in parliament with a pre*ident who has shown disdain towards Kenyans shows that ODM does not stand for what is right but who is powerful.
Where do you stand?!

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

@TheODMparty Kenyans cannot afford a power structure that has already proven failure by design.

T-MINUS 502 days.
Do better.

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

LIST OF FREE PDF BOOKS FOR THE NEW YEAR! 🎉

"Divide and rule : the partition of Africa, 1880-1914"

https://t.co/w0TztzE8ST

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

I think (how dare I?) if Saf*r*om paid the guy who invented MPES* a lot more, we might all be a little more patriotic about their business model.
for something to take off that big and for the events that happened(?!)

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

I wonder where my mind went and when it decided to leave me behind.

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

I am sorry to every HBO streaming fan of 'A Game of Thrones.'

This is my public apology.

You were right, I was wrong.
It was your era. It was your time.
AGOT is really, truly that b*tch.

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

Bleach.

[siezzie @siezziee]

What's the first anime you've ever watched?

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

me : They misspelled nigga.

Also me : - - - mission failed successfully.

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

I need to stop using humour to cope with uncomfortable emotions.
This is getting ridiculous.

[Adikinyi Otsomo Kondo @otsomo_]

All my favourite rappers are from Chicago.