Wanjohi William

The Minority Report.

[Ory Okolloh-Mwangi @kenyanpundit]

Presidential elections post 2010 Katiba have chipped away at long held dogmas re Kenyan politics. Katiba oye!

2013: RAO won’t accept court decision, he did

2017: Court can’t overturn Presidential, it did

2022: You can’t win without Deep State, KK did

2027: ??

[I am Chege @_James041]

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

[Stanley Macharia @StanleyMachaari]

Dear Africans, the nuclear family was used to fight community values in Africa and you didn't even notice. Look at how spectacularly the nuclear family has failed. You are all weak and isolated in a chaotic society with no collective goals, no longterm plans.

[Collins @CollinsBriche]

What exactly does the law say about such? Aren't camera locations supposed to be clearly marked and shown to the motorists?

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Kenyans should start owning guns, if anyone had a gun here he would have felled these petty thieves, we cant be this helpless and 'always wait for the police to investigate'

[griffith gitau @gitau_griffith]

Githurai kukipandwa miti that hood will look completely different.

Ata Kibera ama Mathare despite being slums.

Trees can completely change the feel and look of a place.

[Patpat💗🌺 @_num4]

Type of shit I was talking about, wtf is this supposed to mean 😒

[Jacob Juma @WhatEHappened]

Low ambition 'leaders' will go to other countries, enjoy the public infrastructure, come back to Kenya and collude to close and grab all public spaces. Bottom of the barrel PsoS

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

A night of terror in Zimmerman, Roysambu, and Mirema areas as police shoot to kill.

Video thread of what's happening below:

[Dr Rowena @footsoldierRow]

Yaani a country can be discussing such an important topic like Finances and a whole 187 Legislators are too cowardly to show up and say no? I hate such lukewarm people. Stand for something FFS! Greedy people who do nothing even in their constituencies

[SkyVector @TangoFox_]

Red Hill Link road was designed to the geometric standards of a road that can safely handle 100 km/h. Its horizontal alignments,sight distances,& superelevations are all consistent with design speeds well above 50.Penalising drivers for doing 90 on it isn't safety it's revenue/km

[Ian Car Advice Kenya @Caradvicekenya]

This is a clearer photo of him. Any info regarding him will really help.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

Instead of building a well equipped hospital he is pushing for an airstrip. Who bewitched us?

[MOgada @m_ogada]

Mombasa is hosting a global oceans conference! Yaaayy!! What an achievement for a city that has no sewerage system and spews its shit straight into the ocean.

[Mwango Capital @MwangoCapital]

DCI says analysis of CCTV footage has identified 7 students linked to the deadly Utumishi Girls fire that claimed 16 lives.

6 of the 8 suspects previously arrested were positively identified, while a seventh suspect, earlier released to her parents, is now being traced

[ㄖchibo @0chibo_]

Wadau, hakuna time. Our ancestors knew everything they needed to live well on this land.

The seeds, herbs, the soil, the rains, the stars, the songs, the names.

Colonialism was two grandmothers ago.

What’s left is in the heads of old women in shags who will die in the next ten years. After them, there is nobody.

Go home. Record everything. The knowledge is not gone. It is leaving.

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

What makes a population of over 50 Million people normalize dysfunction from a few politicians? Is it fear, conditioning, survival, or something else entirely?

Who actually understands this, psychologists, sociologists, historians, anyone?? Feel free to weigh in✌🏾

[Kiptoo @kiptoocheruyoit]

What have these people invented? Apart from taking government contracts..... Kenyans love to celebrate mediocrity!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

One day in September 2001, when I was a tiny 11 year-old starting secondary school at Atlantic Hall, back when it was located at Maryland, Mrs Adepoju the class teacher announced a group exercise as an icebreaker. All of us were to write our dream holiday location on a piece of paper, and one by one we would read out what we had written.

She started from the other end of the class, so I got to hear multiple answers before it got to my turn. The answers were basically "London", "America", "London", "London", "London", "London", "London", "UK", "London", "London"...

Now for context, I was already reasonably well travelled at the time, and even though my family was not the kind to go off on a jaunt to London at every given opportunity like some of my new peers, I had been privileged to travel fairly extensively around Africa, and I was visually familiar enough with the places being mentioned to know that people from London generally looked forward to going on holiday to warmer parts of the world in Africa, Asia, Southern Europe and Latin America.

I also knew from personal experience that people from "America" and "London" could be found in their thousands enjoying holidays in Lomé, Zanzibar and Accra. You would often find me as the sole African kid surrounded by white kids playing together in the lobby or private beachfront of Lomé's Hotel Deux Fevrier or Hotel Sarakawa whenever my family was in town.

In addition, the travel sections in the Newsweek, TIME and Readers Digest magazines that my dad bought every week made it clear that safari tours in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa were among the most highly rated holiday experiences on earth. These experiences were so exclusive that it would actually be easier for a Nigerian to take a trip to London than to go on safari in Kenya.

I'm providing all this context to explain why it seemed pretty obvious to me that writing "Kenya" as my dream holiday destination was a valid and reasonable choice. Instead, what happened when it got to my turn was that I read out "safari in Kenya" - and the rest of the class burst into laughter and giggles. I was utterly confused at first. Did they not hear me correctly?

They did.

As one of them helpfully explained in between subsequent chortles, "We're talking about places like London and New York, what is *Kenya*?" The inference of course, was that *Kenya*, located in Africa as it was, did not belong in the same conversation as "London" when discussing destinations.

What constituted a "dream holiday" for these children of Nigeria's elite was a Virgin Atlantic economy class ticket to Gatwick Airport, a 4-week stay with their NHS auxillary nurse aunty and her 2 kids in a cramped 2-bedroom council terrace in High Wycombe, and an Oxford Street shopping rampage yielding 50kg of excess baggage for the return trip, filled with WH Smith pencils and Primark clothes to show off to each other at the end of term party.

While the actual inhabitants of London used monthly payment plans to save up for their once in a lifetime Thomson package holiday tour in Kenya, these ghettofabulous sons and daughters of the Nigerian "elite" looked forward to a cold, uncomfortable experience on a miserable umbrella island as their "dream holiday". Not because it was a dream holiday, but because that was the social expectation they all enforced on each other.

And if you knew better, they *laughed* you.

That day was the first time I experienced something that I have gone on to experience many, many times over the intervening 25 years of my Nigerian life - the existential dread of being surrounded by people whose information level is so far below the one I operate with that we genuinely have almost nothing in common.

It's an experience I am so used to that I no longer bother to explain myself to Nigerians. The people who think that London is a dream holiday destination definitely think that "Iran is a terrorist regime that murdered 30,000 protesters."

Of course they do.

[Godfrey KUTEESA!! @GODFREY_Kutesa]

School should be 3 DAYS a week.

5 hrs of class time.

Learners should use the remaining time to doing apprenticeship in their desired fields. They must explore, make mistakes, try and do more.

Why should a child in p.3 -p4 go to school 5 days a week?

What’s it that they’re learning that requires 10 hrs a days in a class.
France 🇫🇷 is already doing 4 days of school a week.

Let children go to school 3 days a week and use 3 days in the garden doing agriculture.

We’re failing our children yet we know the system won’t work.