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Transformational Life Coach, Motivational Speaker and Writer .
To inspire ,educate & empower people so that they discover & fulfil purpose

[Derek R Peterson @Unseen_Archive]

@AP @NationAfrica 3/
Kenyans in London celebrated independence with a ball. Here Dr. Josephat Karanja, who was Kenya's representative in the UK, toasts his newly independent nation & reads out a speech from Prime Minister Kenyatta.

[Derek R Peterson @Unseen_Archive]

Happy Madaraka Day to colleagues and friends in Kenya!

Here's the 1969 celebration of Madaraka Day, held in Uhuru Park in Nairobi. The best part is the floats, at 2:10.

Courtesy @Reuters.

[irene🌻 @Strictlyirene]

When the owner is quicker than the thieves

Thieves locked in , police on the way. Clean work

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

When Mao Zedong couldn't hide his surprise at how tall Kissinger's wife was

[lordmicky.base.eth @0xlordmicky]

A man moved into a new house with his wife.

In the morning, while they were both having breakfast, the wife looked out the window and saw her neighbor's clothes drying in the garden. She said in surprise:

"Look, our neighbor's washed clothes are not clean at all! She probably doesn't know how to wash clothes properly."

She repeated this comment every time the neighbor washed her clothes and hung them outside to dry.

About a month passed, and one day the wife was surprised to see that the neighbor's washed clothes were shiny and spotless.

She said happily: "Finally, our neighbor has learned to wash clothes properly!"

The husband smiled and said: "No, this morning I cleaned the window through which you look outside!"

Then he said gently:

"We should clear our own eyes before we see the flaws in others, because most of the time the problem is in our own eyes, not in others."

✦ Lesson: Correct your own mistakes, then find faults in others.

[Miahlegacy @Miahlegacy]

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[Coventry City @Coventry_City]

COV ARE MASSIVE 🏁

[Generali Osumo @generali_osumo]

Nairobi Hospital Board Member Eric Okeyo putting anakonda in his place! He has DECONSTRUCTED and EXPOSED the Sugoi CONMAN mercilessly! Indeed, fear is gone!

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

THINGS ANIMALS KNOW THAT HUMANS DON'T:

1. Elephants can detect rain falling 150 miles away through vibrations in the ground, felt through their feet, and will begin walking toward it before any meteorological instrument registers the incoming storm.
2. Dogs can smell cancer, Parkinson's disease, epileptic seizures before they happen, and changes in blood sugar with accuracy rates that consistently outperform early-stage medical testing equipment.
3. Sharks can detect one drop of blood diluted across an Olympic swimming pool worth of water. Their electrosensory system can also detect the heartbeat of a hidden animal through solid sand.
4. Pigeons have magnetite crystals embedded in their beaks,a biological compass that allows them to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field with an accuracy that GPS navigation still cannot consistently match.
5. Crows can recognize and remember individual human faces for years. They hold grudges, pass information about specific humans to their offspring, and have been documented leaving gifts for humans who treated them kindly.
6. Bees make collective decisions democratically. When a hive needs a new home, scouts return and perform dances indicating different locations other bees evaluate and vote, and the option with the most sustained enthusiasm wins.
7. Mantis shrimps can see 16 types of color receptors compared to humans' three. They perceive colors, ultraviolet, and polarized light simultaneously experiencing a visual reality so complex humans have no framework to even imagine it.
8. Migratory birds navigate partly by seeing the Earth's magnetic field as a visual overlay on their normal vision essentially they have a built-in map projected onto their sight that humans are completely blind to.
9. Whales sing in dialects. Different populations have distinct songs that are culturally passed down, evolve over time, and change when populations come into contact with each other exactly like human language evolution.
10. Rats show measurable empathy. In experiments they consistently freed trapped companions even when doing so gave them no reward and would share food with hungry strangers before eating themselves.
11. Octopuses have neurons distributed throughout their arms each arm can taste, feel, problem-solve, and act semi-independently of the brain. They experience the world as eight semi-separate thinking entities simultaneously.
12. Elephants are among the only animals that recognize death as death. They return to the bones of deceased family members years later, handle them carefully, and display behavior that has no practical survival function only what looks like grief.
13. Dolphins have been documented teaching their young to use tools specifically placing sea sponges on their snouts to protect themselves while foraging on sharp ocean floors. This is culturally transmitted knowledge, not instinct.
14. Some species of jellyfish are biologically immortal. When stressed or aging, Turritopsis dohrnii reverts to its juvenile state and restarts its life cycle,it has no known natural lifespan limit.
15. Cats don't meow at other cats in the wild. The meow was developed specifically and exclusively as a communication tool directed at humans,they learned to talk to us in a frequency that mimics an infant's cry because it gets results.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived.

He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent.

He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine.

Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report.

The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs.

Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug.

The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller.

By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific.

This is the system that exists today.

The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured.

The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity.

The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead.

Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop.

The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed.

The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries.

It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it.

You are the customer.

The corridor is where you live.

[DON “Tobechukwu” Ade 👑 @Row_Haastrup]

Someone came to me and said, sir, I heard that you are a prophet of God. I said, I'm not a prophet, I'm a pastor. Then he said, well, they told me that whenever you say God said, it will come to pass. I said, well, God has been faithful. He said, can you tell me my future? I said, ah, that's easy. Just answer a simple question, and I'll tell you your future straight away.

Are you born again? Are you a child of God? He said, no.

I said, ah, your future will be t£rriblǝ.

He said, how do you know? You don't even know my name. You have not even prayed.

I said, there's no need. It is written. No prophecy can cancel the word of God.

The word of God said clearly, Isaiah chapter 3 verse 11.
"Woe to the wicked, it shall be !ll with him."

He said, well, suppose I say I'm born again. Suppose I say I'm a child of God. I said, and then I can tell you your tomorrow will be all right.

He said how do you know?

The same Isaiah chapter 3 verse 10.

"Say ye to the righteous, it shall be well with him."

My beloved children, I'm talking to you like a father from the bottom of my heart, I want your future to be great. You have probably heard me pray to the Almighty God, crƴing to him, saying, Lord, let all my children be greater than I. And people wonder, how can you pray that kind of prayer? That is the way my own future can be guaranteed. I want all my children to be greater than I.

If you are pretending to be a child of God and you are not, you have no future. Believe me honestly, if Christ is not genuinely living in you, you have no future.

— Daddy E A Adeboye

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

How to build Generational Wealth (acc. to Bible)

[The Mayor @themayor_ke]

Whoever heartbroke this man, ulikosea sana

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

The speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” was on April 3, 1968 — the day before he was assassinated.

“I’m happy tonight; I’m not worried about anything; I’m not fearing any man.“

[Presidential Library & Archives @OPLMKe]

John Musembi Kyalo — The Minister Who “Misplaced” a Hospital
In Kenya’s political folklore, few stories are told with as much amusement—and quiet admiration—as that of John Musembi Kyalo, the man who, depending on who you ask, either made a bureaucratic blunder… or pulled off a masterstroke.
But long before he stepped into the charged arena of elections, he had already climbed to the very top of government administration—serving as a District Officer, rising through the ranks to become Director of Immigration, and eventually Permanent Secretary under both Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi. He was, by all accounts, a technocrat—methodical, efficient, and deeply embedded in the machinery of the State.
But the true measure of the man—nicknamed "Kyalo wa Makindi" or "the forceful one"—was revealed only after he traded his suit for the unpredictable arena of politics.
Except, politics proved less forgiving.
He tried once. Lost.
Tried again. Lost.
And even after the 1982 attempted coup reshaped Kenya’s political landscape, Kyalo still couldn’t quite break through.
Then in 1988, on his third attempt—and through the controversial mlolongo (queue voting) system—he finally entered Parliament.
By then, he had learned something important: he was not a rally man. Not a crowd-stirring orator. So, he built a different kind of campaign—quiet, deliberate, almost surgical. He knocked on doors at night, speaking one-on-one, building trust in whispers rather than speeches.
It worked.
By 1992, he was no longer just an MP—he was in Cabinet, appointed Minister for Health by President Moi, a sign of both trust and proximity to power, aided in no small measure by his alliance with the legendary Ukambani kingmaker, Mulu Mutisya.
And then came the hospital.
It was during his tenure as Minister for Health that Kyalo executed his most audacious "clerical error"—a story that remains a hilarious and legendary footnote in Kenyan governance.
At the time, the people of Makueni were suffering, traveling 60 kilometres to Machakos just for basic medical care. Kyalo saw the need, but the bureaucratic wheels moved slowly, and the funds were often earmarked elsewhere. Suddenly, a multi-million-shilling modern hospital began rising in Makueni with unprecedented speed, overseen by the Minister himself.
When the ribbon was cut and the doors opened, a confused cry rose from Nyeri District. The political leaders there were wondering what had happened to their own planned facility in Mukurweini.
With the straightest of faces, Kyalo launched a "thorough investigation" into the matter. His conclusion? A tragic, unfortunate clerical mix-up. He apologised profusely to the people of Nyeri, blaming the ministry’s confusion for sending Mukurweini’s hospital to Makueni. He promised to "correct" the error in the next budget—which he eventually did—but the deed was done.
Years later, over drinks with close friends, the "forceful" Kyalo finally dropped the mask, admitting with a wink that the mix-up had been a calculated means to an end. He had simply decided that his people had waited long enough.
A Final Farewell
Kyalo’s voice, once used for quiet night-time persuasion and clever ministerial defences, began to fail him midway through his term. Diagnosed with throat cancer, he passed away in 1995 while still in office. He was buried with the full honours of the state, mourned by the President and the entire Ukambani leadership—leaving behind a legacy of a man who knew exactly how to work the system, even if it meant "losing" a whole hospital along the way.

[Hon. Justin Muturi, EGH @HonJBMuturi]

The High Court has delivered a powerful affirmation of electoral justice in Newton Kariuki Ndwiga v IEBC & Others (Election Petition No. E002 of 2025), with Justice R. Mwongo ordering scrutiny and recount of votes in the Mbeere North by-election.

This is a major victory for truth, transparency, and the will of the people. The Court has opened the door for a full interrogation of the electoral process, including access to KIEMS data, ensuring that nothing is hidden and nothing is taken at face value.

This ruling firmly places the IEBC on notice, accountability is not optional. Transparency must be non-negotiable, ensuring that every action taken in the electoral process can be traced, verified, and trusted. A truly free and fair election is one where the process inspires confidence and the outcome reflects, without doubt, the sovereign will of the people.

We welcome this bold step. The truth is now on trial and it must prevail.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Big fight! ❤️😂😂

[theHubTV @theHubTVke]

𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗧𝘂𝗷𝘂 was a prominent 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 in Kenya during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

He worked for KTN in 1990, having previously worked for the Voice of Kenya (VOK, now KBC).

[For Black Women UK @forblackwomenuk]

Edna was a Master’s student at York St John University.

She was reported missing on 1 Feb 2026 after going for a walk. Her body was discovered on 8 March after she had been missing for 35 days.
Many people only learned about her disappearance after she was found.

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

This video belongs in the Negro Hall of Fame. Sheesh.