You assume people will act fairly if you act fairly. They won’t. People act in alignment with their incentives, not your expectations. If the structure rewards selfishness, selfishness appears.
I have found that the greatest yield from conversations with fellow men is inspiration. Motivation. The desire to do more, and do better. Be they friends, mentors, or business partners: the best men don't tell you what to do when you're drowning, they tell you what they did.
Men who have no lived experience of Gĩkũyũ womanhood love to tell us how our culture is matriarchal
Matriarchal but wives are called mutumia / mũka / adũ a njaa.
Matriarchal but FGM is alive and kicking
Matriarchal but unmarried women have to “pay dowry” for themselves if nobody has ever paid dowry for them so that their child can marry.
Matriarchal but the chicken leg belongs to the man and women are served the neck.
Matriarchal but when it comes to formal life events your father’s family are the ones who have a say.
Even if people name themselves after their mother, it doesn’t shift the fact that our culture is patriarchal and patrilineal.
Mau Mau made it difficult for this to be enforced but in families that weren’t as affected by Mau Mau, ask the women about their experiences
You're supposed to use every unfair advantage you have. Looks, genetics, connections, dad's money, whatever.
There's nothing noble about choosing the hardest path just to feel like an underdog.
@kigutasheilaa Uganda, they are the only country in East Africa that genuinely has no beef with Kenyans and actually like Kenyan . They are our true brothers
My dad retired at 59
I will not
He had a pension. I have a 401k I can barely fund.
He bought his house at 28.
I can't touch a down payment at 30.
He paid $90 a month for health insurance. I pay $430.
At dinner he told me I need to be smarter with money.
I nodded.
Didn't tell him his entire life was built on an economy that no longer exists.
Didn't tell him my generation is paying for his Social Security while ours gets gutted.
Didn't tell him the ladder he climbed got pulled up right after him.
Just passed the potatoes.
Make it make sense
a reminder that one of the constant racial micro-aggressions Africans face outside Africa are related to "noise control."
we laugh too loud, we listen to music too loud, when excited we speak louder than most...both slavery & colonialism had documented frameworks on silencing us
"We need to be very careful about xenophobia... We need to understand that South Africa does not have a xenophobia problem... We have a Afrophobia problem."
Political analyst Pieter Kriel says attacks on African migrants in South Africa reflect afrophobia, driven by migration and economic pressures.
MALEMA DROPS A BOMBSHELL — "AFTER ALL YOUR ATTACKS, HOW MANY JOBS DID YOU CREATE?" 🇿🇦 ✊🏾
South Africa's Julius Malema has silenced the xenophobia debate with one powerful question! You marched. You burnt shops. You beat innocent Africans in the streets.
So tell us: where are the jobs?
Zimbabweans, Nigerians, and Ethiopians did not steal your future. A broken government and corruption did!
Malema said it loud and clear: "I don't want votes that make me hate fellow Africans!"
Africa helped South Africa defeat apartheid. This is how you repay the continent?
Violence never created a single job. Ever.