Sarafu

Happy to dish out my two cents.

[🔥 Ebonic Titalizer @ebonictitalizer]

Cadillac Chronicles x Digable Planets

🎙️ “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”

[shiks Githinji @_marywanjiku]

I never imagined I'd be the one asking for help.
I've spent my life on the other side checking pulses, holding hands, telling patients "you'll be okay." Today, I'm the one who needs to hear that.

This is Day One of appealing to my 30 Followers,online community and well-wishers to help me raise the Sh6 million needed for my kidney transplant.
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[Mo Abudu @MoAbudu]

WE’RE ALMOST READY!

From acquiring the property in March 2025 to where we are today in August 2026, what a journey it has been!

EbonyLife Place London, the UK’s first cinema hub dedicated exclusively to African and Black films, is coming to London this October 2026.

#EbonyLifePlaceLondon

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

China now owns the world's largest and most tunnel boring machines (TBMs). 70% of the world's total are made in China. But this dominance is hard-earned.

In 1997, to build the Qinling Tunnel, China paid Germany RMB 700 million for just 2 SECONDHAND TBMs. 700 million is an entire region’s tax revenue back then.

But the 700 million didn't include support. China also had to hire German engineers for €800/day (≈RMB 6,800), while the average Chinese worker earned less than RMB 4,000 a year.

Back then, the global market was locked by the US, Japan, and Germany. China was being robbed, simply because it couldn't produce its own.

In 2002, China began the painful journey of self-development of TBM, which has over 30,000 precision parts.

After 6 years, in 2008, China's first homegrown TBM was born. In a 2012 head-to-head test, it matched the best in the world. Today, Chinese TBMs lead the world. Dignity is earned.

This is just an example in TBM. In humanoid robots, in electric cars, in solar farms, in drones...China has plenty of examples that make the country strong again.

[Dike Clinton Chisom @DikenaClinton]

Someone In The Comments Said Why Do Kids & Old Folks Dance Alike. . . I’m Still HEAVING 🥴😂😭

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Really funny situation happened to us today in Xinjiang.

The way it started was not so funny: when we rented our RV we gave our 3 empty luggage to the RV rental company for safekeeping, as they'd have taken way too much room in the RV. However, in the 34 days we were traveling, they somehow managed to lose all three.

Not to worry, the boss of the RV company personally called us to apologize and told us he'd buy us 3 new luggage.

The day after we gave back the RV, he texted us to ask us where we were and told us he'd send a car to pick us up and go luggage shopping.

A little while later, a large black Audi S8 shows up, I open the door in the back and there he was: barefoot, funny shorts, black tank top, glass of Romanée-Conti in hand. The boss had personally come to buy the luggage with us 😅

He genuinely had a larger than life personality, in a way you can only see in China (watch the video for a small preview).

He brought us to a market with many luggage shops.

We went to the first shop: he told us to choose 3 luggage we liked while he was outside, walking barefoot in the street, drinking his wine, eating sausages on sticks that he'd asked his driver to fetch for him, and smoking cigarette after cigarette, sometimes all at the same time.

After we'd chosen 3 luggage we liked, he makes his entrance to discuss price. And he starts bargaining, really hard but in such a hilarious way no-one in the shop could help laughing, going into tirades on how he was a Xinjiang local, how these luggage were worth nothing, how they were trying to scam him - all delivered barefoot with a glass of red wine and a sausage on a stick, like a man who'd been bargaining in markets since birth and had simply decided at some point that shoes were optional.

Anyhow he drove the price down to 1,200 RMB for 3 good quality luggage ($180, which is already pretty cheap) but he wasn't satisfied so off we went to a second shop.

In the second shop, same process: we choose 3 luggage we like and tell the boss to come over for the price negotiation. And there again, he puts on the same show but, having witnessed the carnage next door, they were more... cooperative: 980 RMB for 3 luggage (which were actually bigger and better than in the 1st shop).

Still not good enough. The man had arrived in a Audi S8 with a driver, drinking Romanée-Conti and was now going to war over the last 200 yuan. Off to a 3rd shop.

When he arrived in the 3rd shop, the shop boss - who had followed everything that happened in the first 2 shops from a distance (half the market had) - was already laughing. Our man walked in, barefoot, wine in hand, and opened with: "you heard what happened with the 2 others, you'll give us a good price, won't you?"

He still drove a very hard bargain, threatening to leave at least three times, so much so he got all the way down to 760 RMB - $110 - for our 3 luggage, which frankly speaking where the best yet, an amazingly low price.

By that point I was so amused that I asked if I could film him: he agreed and delivered the tirade you see on the video, covering Confucius, the Communist Party, deflation, Romanée-Conti, and a sweep through every major world religion, all of which teach people to do good except - and he wanted this on the record - "that shameless Li Hongzhi from Falun Gong, that's the exception" 🤣 (he's right though!)

At one point he holds up the luggage and declares to the camera: "the price doesn't matter, what matters is how it feels." This after two hours of bargaining across three shops 🤣

He also, hilariously, after the deal was already done at 760 RMB, casually tried to talk the price down to 690 - mid-monologue, without breaking stride 🤣

Anyhow, long story short, he really delivered for us: he covered the cost of all 3 luggage, they were better than the ones we'd lost, and he threw in something no amount of money can buy - a front-row seat to the greatest bargaining performance in Xinjiang!

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

I'd love to have an outdoor kitchen, like F2 and 4 that I could secure when away. But majority of heavy cooking and baking done outside. Then a tiny kitchenette inside the house for a night cuppa or tiny snack when I'm alone. Very nice!

[LoVibe. @lovibe_]

This beat sounds like Japan

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

"At Alliance High School, African students thought they could get higher marks than their fellow European students at the Prince of Wales High School; yet the late Carey Francis, then Headmaster of Alliance between 1940 and 1962, could say that 'An African is equal to the white man in academic subjects but intellectually he is inferior .' It was not a surprise for Alliance boys to be told to take their shoes off by Mr. Francis when playing football with Duke of Gloucester (a European high school), while their European counterparts had shoes on."

Maina D Kagombe
#IwenttoAlliance

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

There’s no ceremony more iconic than Mr. Bean’s opening at the London 2012 Olympics

[Micro-Chop @micro_chop]

I’ve been thinking about the line, “chips that power nuclear bombs power my SEGA” a lot recently. There’s so much to unpack in those seven words.

[Ray @ms_mutegi]

When your accountant says I know a place.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

I’ve legit watched this synth battle 13 times on repeat.

[Prezi Banks. 🐻🇬🇭🇯🇲 @AfrikanKing_]

Reminds me of this clip. 🤣😭

[I @W_Asherah]

In Watamu. If you're ever here, go to Crab Shack and support the local community.

Also - forget Lichthaus. Imagine paying 6k in advance for a Sunset 🫩

[Sarafu @SarafuSafi]

@adamscochran @hthieblot Audiogalaxy
It could find ANY music track

[Edwin @_TweetEd_]

My weekly electric cooking digest. The total cost to cook was KES 30 this week (last week it was KES 54 but there was a blackout this week). At this rate it's going to cost at most KES 200/month.

[Kulture🌟 @fw_kulture]

This might be one of the smartest marketing decisions I've seen for a movie. Using Homer's original poetic rhythm in a modern rap is such an unexpected touch. Did anyone else catch this before today?

[nairobijuice @nairobi_juice]

One of Flaqo's skits has caught the attention of Melvin Gray, the owner of the renowned Jamaican influencer brand, 1 Mello Vibes. @1mellovibes

[Sarafu @SarafuSafi]

👌🏽

[Great Embian @GreatEmbian_]

Lost Boyz
#Kenyanmusic