As a child, engineering professor Tahira Reid Smith sketched a machine that could turn Double Dutch skipping ropes without human help for a school assignment. Forty years later, she's brought her childhood idea to life with a working prototype called 'Jump Dreams'
Your daughter just got her first period.
Do not tell her she is a woman now.
Tell her what estrogen does.
Tell her what progesterone does.
Tell her her cycle has four phases and each one will feel different.
Give her information. Not a new identity.
I had a fellow student in college I happen to share a mother with. One quiet Sunday afternoon I'm called by the watchman because there are students who are harvesting and eating mangoes in the college farm. I quietly make my way through the maze of maturing maize conjuring
I have an employee who I happen to share a mother with. She calls and says “mama amesema nisitoke kwa nyumba Leo juu Sijui vile kutakuwa” I sigh and say “Sawa, see you tomorrow”.
Who can go against their mother??
May we never forget June 25.
May we never forget the Gen Z heroes whose lives were ruthlessly cut short.
May we always remember.
punishments that befit such wayward teachers-in-training. On getting to the spot where the heavily laden mango tree is, whom do I find featuring prominently among the harvesters? I am not amused but she comes closer with a wry smile and whispers to me,
I'm sure at first the Interahamwe were also first described as goons. They operated with clear state sanction and impunity. We all know what happened after. This thing of "goons," we cannot afford to take it lightly.
I studied architectural design in Cameroon and every architect they taught me was European. Every movement, every theory, every name on the required reading list. The Great Mosque of Djenné, the Moorish arch, Great Zimbabwe never appeared on any syllabus.
Now I am studying management and every economist is Western. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian who built an entire economic framework for African development, has never appeared in a single lecture. Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist who argued that Western aid is destroying African economies, same.
Two disciplines. Not one African name in the required reading.
This is not only an architecture problem. It is medicine, law, economics, history. Every field is taught through a foreign lens and when a student tries to think beyond it they are disciplined for it.
We are not behind because we lack knowledge. We are behind because we were taught that ours does not count.
Australia is a continent. The Prime Minister of Australia has 2 official residences: one state house and one state lodge.
Kenya, which is about 7.5% of Australia's landmass, has about 15 residences: three state houses and about 12 state lodges.
Shida ya Waafrika huwa nini? 🤔
@kenyanpundit Ndio maana I will never stop saying, shida za Kenya ni za kujiletea, what do you mean as a parent you admit your child into a boarding school and let someone tell you you cannot go see where your child will be sleeping and you actually listen and go home?
Kenya's invitation to the G7 summit happening in France is something that should worry us. France Imperialist interests in Kenya is now a matter that requires the consolidation of all nationally oppressed classes to oppose this Imperialist manoeuvre.
The clouds drift back, the silence stays,
A golden light begins to blaze.
The world feels clean, the colors bright,
A quiet joy beneath the light.
No fear remains, no shadows swarm,
Just peace that comes after the storm.
Anonymous
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