Nchi yetu ya Kenya
Tunayoipenda
Tuwe tayari kuilinda.
These are not just mere words. Kuilinda kutokana na uongozi mbaya. Kuilinda kutokana na polisi kutumia nguvu kupita kiasi, kuilinda kutokana na hujuma za kidemokrasia.
I life has taught me anything these past two, three years, it is this: when people create space for you, especially spaces of safety, and time - honour that. Don't enter that space with madharau, breaking things deliberately and just being obnoxious. Be honourable. Exist gently.
Been seeing comments about Norway having so many fans, while Senegal barely has any.
That’s because Senegalese supporters were not given visas to come to the U.S.
Even before a ball is kicked, Western/European teams already have an unfair advantage.
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.