Kwafricka 🦂🇰🇪

Son of NILE VALLEY...📸Environmental PhotoJournalist- Voice of Voiceless..Conviction in JUSTICE & United Alkebulan✊🏿FREE MEDIA💭 Lets Inspire Alkebulan💪🏿🇰🇪

[FlexFusion @FlexFusion_]

IN JAPAN, LAZINESS IS CONSIDERED A DISEASE AND PEOPLE TREAT IT WITH THESE
7 METHODS:

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

"I would boil cannabis leaves and drink them like tea every evening to cure my back pain." MP David Ochieng' confesses in Parliament that he uses bhang whenever he returns to his home constituency of Ugenya.

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

The plan is to make Kenya a failed state;
1. Destroy the middle class.
-shut down manufacturing companies.
-overtax the working class.
-inflation.
-hike the cost of living.
-no increments on salaries.

2. Turn everyone into a beggar.
-introduce digital currency.
-government as biggest employer.
-destroy informal sector.
-divest manufacturing.
-over regulate/ over tax small and medium enterprises.
-subsidise corporates.

3. Privatize land.
-give access to farmland to global agricultural multinationals.
-bills that take away land sovereignty from the citizen.
-introduce a land tax.
-create squatters.

4. Control housing.
-15 minute cities.
-over surveillance.
-avoidable housing for those who can't afford a tax on their freehold land.

5. Destroy seed sovereignty.
-introduce only patented seedlings.
-prioritise GMOs and hybrids.
-demonize indigenous seeds and organic farming.
-pass bills that curtail the growth and aspirations of small scale farmers.

6. Privatize water.
-force a people to need a license to harvest rain water, rivers or dams.
-overtax boreholes so only the rich can afford them.
-give global beverage and bottled water companies uninhibited access.

7. Enslave the nation in debt.
-borrow from global banking cartels;
IMF, World Bank, China EXIM Bank, European Central Bank, African Development Bank...
-squander taxes.
-loot borrowed money.
-use national assets as colateral for debt.

8. Destroy Sovereignty.
-allow foreign military bases in your land.
-allow foreign governments say so in your socio-economic/ political issues.
-allow biological weapons labs.
-allow for looting of mineral wealth and natural resources.

9. Create an illiterate populace.
-remove free education.
-introduce a new education model without proper planning.
-allow globalist entities to fund your curriculum.
-dumb down the learners.
-divest/privatise higher learning institutions.

10. Devalue the currency.
-print fiat without regulation.
-inflation.
-loot gold and silver reserves.
-allow global banking cartels to set fiscal policy.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Russian psychologist spent 10 years proving that the act of talking to yourself out loud is one of the most powerful cognitive tools the human brain has, and almost nobody outside his field has read the work.

His name was Lev Vygotsky.

He worked in Moscow in the 1920s and died of tuberculosis in 1934 at the age of 37. He had no laboratory, no funding, almost no English readers, and a body of work that the Soviet government suppressed for two decades after he died.

He produced the foundational theory of how human cognition actually develops, and the central piece of that theory was a behavior almost every adult is faintly embarrassed about.

Vygotsky noticed that young children talk to themselves constantly. They narrate their own actions, they argue with imaginary opponents, they instruct themselves through tasks out loud.

The dominant theory at the time, from the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, said this was a sign of cognitive immaturity that children would eventually grow out of as they learned to think properly.

Vygotsky said the exact opposite.

He argued that this self-directed speech was the most important cognitive event in the entire developmental window, because it was the moment a child first started to use language as a tool to control their own mind. The child was not failing to think. The child was learning how to think by externalizing the process and listening to themselves do it.

He predicted that as children matured, this out-loud self-talk would not disappear. It would go underground. It would become silent inner speech, which is the running monologue every adult has inside their own head for the rest of their life.

The voice you hear when you read this sentence is the direct descendant of a four-year-old narrating their own block tower.

For 50 years almost nobody outside Russia had access to his work, and the few researchers who did pick it up could not get funding to test it. Then in the early 2000s the experiments finally started to pile up, and what they found was that Vygotsky had been right about something even more important than he knew.

The first major study came from Gary Lupyan at the University of Wisconsin and Daniel Swingley at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. They ran a simple visual search experiment. Participants were shown 20 images at once and asked to find a specific object, like a banana or a chair. In one condition they searched silently. In the other condition they were told to say the name of the object out loud to themselves while looking for it.

The participants who spoke the target name out loud found the object significantly faster, with higher accuracy, than the participants who searched in silence. The effect was strongest when the spoken word matched a familiar object the brain already had a strong category for.

Saying the word out loud literally tuned the visual system to detect that thing better. The researchers called it the label feedback effect, and the implication was that the act of vocalizing a goal physically changes how the brain processes the world while pursuing it.

The second major study came out of the University of Michigan and Michigan State in 2017. The lead researchers were Ethan Kross and Jason Moser, and they used both EEG and fMRI to record what happens inside the brain when people talk to themselves while emotionally upset.

They asked participants to recall painful autobiographical memories and reflect on them in two different ways. Some used the first person, saying things like "why am I feeling this way." Others used the third person, referring to themselves by their own name, saying things like "why is John feeling this way."

The brain scans showed that the simple act of switching from first person to third person, even silently, decreased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for rumination and self-referential pain. Within a single second of using their own name instead of the word I, participants showed measurably lower emotional reactivity. The shift required no extra cognitive effort. It cost the brain nothing. And it worked.

Kross described the mechanism in his interviews. Talking to yourself by name creates a small amount of psychological distance from your own experience. Your brain processes the situation more like a problem belonging to someone else, which means it can analyze it instead of drowning in it.

What Vygotsky had intuited in 1934 turned out to be even more powerful than the developmental theory he built it into. The voice you use to talk to yourself is not background noise. It is one of the most precise cognitive tools the brain has, and you can change how it works just by changing the pronoun you use.

People who talk through problems out loud are not anxious or unstable. They are running an externalized version of a process the rest of us are running silently and worse. The kindergartener narrating their block tower, the surgeon muttering through a procedure, the engineer pacing a hallway describing a bug to nobody, the athlete repeating a cue to themselves before a free throw, they are all using the same ancient mechanism that builds and steers human thought.

You can run the experiment yourself the next time you are stuck on something hard. Stop trying to solve it silently in your head. Say it out loud. Describe what you are seeing. Walk yourself through the steps as if you were explaining it to a colleague who is not in the room.

And when something genuinely upsets you, switch to your own name. Ask why this person is feeling this way, instead of why I am feeling this way.

The voice you have been told to keep quiet your entire life is one of the oldest pieces of cognitive technology you own.

Most people are still embarrassed to use it.

[Eric @amerix]

SALT has been mentioned 47 times in the Bible.

SALT is life.

The enemy is sugar.

They condemn salt to protect sugar.

Anyone who tells you salt will kill you is an educated fool.

#FoodFriday

[Kwafricka 🦂🇰🇪 @theDonvick]

Tonights #NEWSGANG on Citizen is on point. Critical questions raised from a constructive criticism point of thought… How do we uplift innovations? Who are beneficiaries and enactors? Whats the sustainability of these projects?

[zellie @zellieimani]

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” -Assata Shakur

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

Reading books is dangerous because books slow the mind down enough to notice how unnatural modern society actually is.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

I highly advise anyone who wants to see an increase in their finances over the next 6 months to read Psalm 72 & Psalm 112 🙏🏾

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

“Excessive dancing invites disorder and demons.”

“For Her Majesty’s Government, keep the natives orderly.”

Colonial rule was not just about controlling land and labour. It was about controlling culture, expression, assembly, and identity.

The language sounds ridiculous today. The mentality should concern us even more.
#DecoloniseGovernance #ReKe #PeoplePower

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

"Why do Americans think that their lives are more important than the lives of Kenyans?"

My CNN report on the public opposition to an Ebola isolation facility for Americans in Kenya

[ㄖchibo @0chibo_]

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.

[Black @LilithBlack25]

The forest is large because each tree allows the other to grow.
~African proverb.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

Willingly accepting to import Ebola into your country has got to be most treasonous act ever done to a people by their leader in any country. This greed is too much.

[Àyànfè @Danny456080]

Fanon wrote that, the colonised person uses religion to release tensions that should be directed at the oppressor.

The energy that should fuel revolt gets, redirected into the spiritual.

[James Ole Kiyiapi @JamesOleKiyiapi]

This is deeply thought provoking and yet so basic at the same time - thank you Prof W. Njoya for these insightful comments!

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

Juzi tu mlikua mnalia neocolonialism na sahii naona mmejaa tao na jersey za your former colonizer. Make it make sense haha.

[𝓡𝓪𝓷𝓭𝔂🪐🪄 @Iam_randy07]

Marijuana was mentioned in the Epstein files. They said that people who smoke cannabis are harder to manipulate and control... that's why alcohol is promoted and Marijuana is demonized.

[Nandini @N_and_ni]

Machine learning…….

[Kwafricka 🦂🇰🇪 @theDonvick]

@Danny456080 Funny enough, the PEOPLE don't want to be fed. They only need a conducive environment and operational extension services to ease the production of their food.