steve kaapei

electrical & electronics engineer | coding & development | entrepreneur | artist | nature lover | traveler | activist | culture enthusiast

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@DonaldBKipkorir In Kenya, when you become a politician, you lose your soul. Cancer is a disease with terrible scars in Kenya. Our politicians are doing nothing about it. Wanga has lost her mind

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@SomoinaKapeen This is a sacred tree in Maa. Not very known for medicinal value but greatly regarded in traditional ceremonies

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@chapatimistress @KamiWatahi Happy birthday in advance. Tutakula keki chapo

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@KWSKenya Ologil'alem(one who can break the knife)in Maa. Very fearce reptile. Can chase you a distance if provoked

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For more than a month now, residents of Otiende in Langata haven't seen a drop of water. Water vendors are making a kill. No update from @NairobiWater. The supply from Karen which is already connected was supposed to ease the shortage but... @JalangoMwenyewe @SakajaJohnson

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@SomoinaKapeen Great. This is Narok? Our farmers will have options(fruits) from the traditional livestock, wheat and maize farming. There is great potential for nut farming too

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@ruddebwai @BravinYuri @CyberCaptainx Probably you have never traveled out of the country. Kenya diaspora is the most united. Unless you decide to be anti social

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@IanECox How can indigenous SA's feel the fruit of their independence if most of their productive land is still in the hands of apartheid beneficiaries?

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@IanECox Nothing has gone wrong. Kenya is still the same

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@DoctorLemma @mokayah They should consider giraffes too. They suffer many fatalities while crossing these highways

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@Joe__Bassey After any presidential elections in Kenya, the first foreign visit the new president does without fail is Washington and London. Says a lot about Kenya. We love our country, but can't say the same about our so called leaders

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@LIONLOVERS5 Oloimina should be the proper name. Means, that who got lost (masculine)

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@Moseax Small wins despite marginalization from own government. Until when every corner of Kenya is accessible we can't talk of being independent

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources.

The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned.

Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources!

Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all?

It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no.

All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep.

Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!"

But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful.

Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa.

Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.

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@Urunzii Narok,Transmara,Kimintet

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@SomoinaKapeen Narok or Kajiado?

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@SomoinaKapeen Detox that actually works without harming your body

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@amenya_nelson Osama was a witness here 😂

[George T. Diano @georgediano]

The Catholic Church built a community water project in Mutitu in 2009 to serve over 30,000 residents of Nyeri, Laikipia and Nyahururu. Crooked officials tried to unlawfully take over the project lakini the Court ordered that all assets be returned to community. After being Defeated in court, Water Resources Authority officials, backed by armed police, destroyed water meters, damaged the water outlet and redirected the water back into the river.

This reminded me of an incident in Tongaren constituency where some Mzungus installed massive Solar panels to supply electricity to resident of Tabani ward, only for Moses Wetangu & the then Area Mp Eseli Simiyu to chase him away saying that the Mzungu is interfering with govt projects & that it's govt mandate to connect Kenyans with electricity. To date, Tabani has no electricity & the area MP chikati has no vision at all.

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@FourthArchetype It is by design