Industrialization? Civilization? What? How?

💕How did we put hearts back together?💕.How did we build the Rocket?🚀🛰.

[Industrialization? Civilization? What? How? @wakyendo]

In a serious country, with a civil society that likes doing hard things, civil society would now apply serious pressure for reforms; this is a reform window that we stand in. Unfortunately, we are unserious.

[Industrialization? Civilization? What? How? @wakyendo]

@anto_ty you're always very quick. A thinker!

[Industrialization? Civilization? What? How? @wakyendo]

@magattew Oversimplification, albeit with a little truth. But oversimplification

[Industrialization? Civilization? What? How? @wakyendo]

They recognize a god.

[Oluwadamilare Ffs 🌺🇦🇷🇪🇸 @xxfw1da]

I just realized this was the best team in the world when I saw that Messi didn’t have the same color of boots as his teammates so that he would be recognizable even from afar on the pitch 😭😭😭

[IEA Kenya @IEAKenya]

🏭 Can Kenya's tax policy accelerate manufacturing, or is it holding the sector back?

Join us for our #Industry254conversations on "Manufacturing and Taxation: Assessing the Most Recent Finance Bills."

@IEAKwame and @LeoKemboi will explore:
• The role of taxation in driving industrial growth
• What makes good tax policy and tax design
• How recent Finance Bills measure up against these principles.

📅 Friday, 26 June 2026
🕚 11:00 AM - 12:30PM EAT

[Industrialization? Civilization? What? How? @wakyendo]

#whatwouldmarketsdo

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Our @MBK_Alliance Ambassadors are examples of the outstanding young people we’ve been proud to support at the @ObamaFoundation over the years. We hope the Obama Presidential Center inspires even more.

[IEA Kenya @IEAKenya]

@j2mutua @IEAKwame @KeTreasury @EATGN @bajeti_hub @LeoKemboi @MwangoCapital @siasaplace @OmendaKedogo @OgejoW @MzalendoWatch @MelodyNjeru @JOchieng85 @JackyKagume @AmbokoJH The Energy, Infrastructure, and ICT sector sees a notable boost of 28.17%, underscoring the government’s commitment to development and modernization. #IEAKEBudget2025

[IEA Kenya @IEAKenya]

@IEAKwame @KeTreasury @OAG_Kenya @j2mutua Kenya FY2026/27 Budget Allocation by Arm of Government ⬇️#IEAKEBudget2026 @IEAKwame @KeTreasury @JohnMbadiN @j2mutua

[IEA Kenya @IEAKenya]

This table shows overall Budget Allocation: Treasury Versus @IEAKenya #IEAKEBudget2026 @IEAKwame @KeTreasury @OAG_Kenya @j2mutua

[IEA Kenya @IEAKenya]

@IEAKwame @KeTreasury @OAG_Kenya @j2mutua @JohnMbadiN @AmbokoJH @OkoaUchumi_KE @KBCChannel1 This graph shows sectoral distribution of allocations⬇️@IEAKwame @KeTreasury @j2mutua @AmbokoJH #IEAKEBudget2026

[IEA Kenya @IEAKenya]

Site visit with the regional partners to the #SGR Nairobi terminus

[IEA Kenya @IEAKenya]

@IEAKenya is the first think tank to unveil a digital tool dubbed the “Public Debt Counter,” a real-time dashboard that tracks Kenya’s national debt growth. #PublicDebtKE

The platform explains how every figure is calculated, the data sources used, and the methodology behind the tracker. @IEAKwame @AmbokoJH @LarryMadowo

📚Total Debt: KES 12.5 trillion
💶 Debt as % of GDP: 70%
💹 Growing at: KES 29,184 per second
🔗Tracker https://t.co/j3SnCPTho6

[IEA Kenya @IEAKenya]

What does Aliko Dangote’s refinery investment mean for Kenya’s economy and fuel prices? @IEAKwame @vivian_ochola @EPRA_KE

Missed Webinar #27of2026 on Reforming Kenya’s Petroleum Pricing Policy? Catch the highlights here: https://t.co/fzu7sqEgkT

[IEA Kenya @IEAKenya]

Insightful discussions as partners present proposed Infra Watch projects for comparative case studies in Kenya 🇰🇪, Nigeria 🇳🇬, Ghana 🇬🇭 , Ethiopia 🇪🇹 , and the DRC Congo 🇨🇩.

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

Racist garbage.

Anyways, here’s a female member of the Tigray Defense Forces firing artillery.

[Mwende @mwende_kyalo_]

They really are. If you ask a Kenyan if they trust their government to have their best interests at heart..they'll give you a resounding NO. Yet the same Kenyans entrust the same government with their children. No oversight. Nothing. Not even seeing where their kids sleep

[Njeri Waridi @Njeriwaridi]

Also on this point - remember many schools block parents from inspecting the dorms & Kenyans parents accept it

We just don’t care about children Aki

[Mwende @mwende_kyalo_]

Also, when I specifically mention colonisation, it's not an excuse. It's an explanation. Understanding why you do the things you do is important for you to change your behaviour.

You can't run away from history in the name of " we can't blame everything on colonisation "

[Industrialization? Civilization? What? How? @wakyendo]

You choose how to build your society. No ideology is complete (no matter how much each one trumpets itself) and I dont think you have to subscribe to a single one (though you may choose to); pragmatism also has its place, no?

[Industrialization? Civilization? What? How? @wakyendo]

Its not so much 'capitalism' but that no solution to social organization is fullproof; they must come with their own new problems that must be solved. Some of these problems are 'wicked' - extremely difficult to solve.

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

Let's have this as an honest conversation - Mwende is right here, and please note the last sentence: "beat the child to keep them alive". That is context. Precolonial African society was FAR SAFER for children than this chaotic, capitalistic system we live in. Let's be honest.

[Industrialization? Civilization? What? How? @wakyendo]

But is Kenya's problem capitalism? Or is it that that Peter Ekeh two publics thing with a slight twist; immoral civic public, 'immoral primordial public that pretends to be moral'...Undergirded by perpetual elite extraction, enabled by a globalized kleptocracy.