So the man who fed, clothed, educated, gave him his name, paid dowry for his mom and raised him somehow wasn't qualified to bless him? And the absentee suddenly holds the master key to his prosperity? Painful. Blessings aren't carried in DNA alone. They can be earned through love, sacrifice, presence and responsibility. Sometimes the greatest poverty isn't financial, it's abandoning wisdom in pursuit of superstition.
In 1966, All African counties boycotted the World Cup to protest apartheid and how black South Africans were marginalized
In 2026, All African countries supported Mexico against South Africa in protest against their xenophobia
Live long enough
America will be first country to lock out Kenyans from going to America should we record even one single of ebola case. Yet you are here welcoming their sick patients. We are led by fools.
France has lost a lot of its relevance and influence in West Africa in recent years. Now it's trying to rebrand itself during a summit with African heads of states in Kenya.
Al Jazeera’s Marthe van der Wolf @marthevdwolf explains.
This is Giorgia Meloni openly explaining what France has been doing in Africa for years.
Watch the video yourself.
Then you still see people defending France and Emmanuel Macron during these so-called “Africa Forward / forging onward” summits in Nairobi as if France suddenly became Africa’s saviour.
If even a European leader can publicly speak about France’s role in exploiting Africa, why are some Africans pretending not to see it?
The truth is uncomfortable:
France has maintained influence in parts of West Africa for decades through money, resources, and political control.
Many African countries remained poor while their resources enriched others.
And now they come with polished conferences, slogans, and PR campaigns pretending to champion Africa’s future.
Africans are waking up.
That is why many West African countries are pushing back.
Colonialism did not disappear.
It changed clothes.
Watched an Alex Mwakideu interview the other day he was talking to the legendary judge from Vioja Mahakamani. Millennials, you know her ~That no-nonsense mama who took zero nonsense in that courtroom.
Now here’s the wild part they never had scripts. Not a single one. They’d just show up, pick roles, agree on the case, and go. Cameras rolling, take one, done.
So every punchline Alphonse Makacha and Dot Makokha ever dropped? Pure improvisation. No rehearsal. Nothing prepared. Just talent doing its thing in real time.
Kenya really had something special with that crew.
And here’s the part that gets me AG Amos Wako was fully behind the show. He’d supply them with real court cases and actual judgments from Kenyan courts. So when the judge passed her verdict on screen, it wasn’t made up. It was legally accurate, straight from the constitution.
Comedy on the surface. Civic education underneath.
That’s a level of craft most productions today can’t touch.
Golden era. Salute to those legends. 🫡
After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.
Hot take- the biggest barriers to trying new hobbies in Kenya is elitism. Cyclists geeking over bikes, hikers flexing salomons, car guys making it about status. If your community scares beginners, it’s not growing its gatekeeping
dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic.
and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic.
humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.
Beware the trap of being really smart yet spending most of that bandwidth on things you have little control over.
High intelligence with little agency is the pipeline to unexplainable anxiety