Becca

A lady of real estate, yogi

[Kenyan Wall Street @kenyanwalstreet]

Aliko Dangote has announced that his proposed East African oil refinery will be built in Kenya rather than Tanzania, ending speculation over the location of one of the region's most ambitious energy projects.

The facility will have a processing capacity of 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day, making it the largest oil refinery in East Africa, and will supply refined petroleum products to Kenya and neighbouring countries to reduce regional dependence on imported fuels.

The announcement follows the commissioning of Dangote's 650,000-barrel-per-day Lagos refinery, the largest single-train refinery in the world. Further details on the Kenyan project's timeline, financing and exact location are expected as planning progresses.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

[SisiYėmmié.com 🌶 @Sisi_Yemmie]

Funds of affirmation , Acts of Transfer.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya Bankers Association has proposed new PAYE bands under the Finance Bill 2026:

Up to Sh30,000 → 10%
Sh30,001–38,333 → 20%
Sh38,334–500,000 → 25%
Sh500,001–800,000 → 27.5%
Above Sh800,000 → 30%

They also propose increasing personal relief from Sh2,400 to Sh3,000.

[Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde]

The “Maluleke Sisters” usually refers to three high-profile South African sisters Tsakani Maluleke, Basani Maluleke, and Refilwe Maluleke who became prominent leaders in business, finance, and public service in South Africa.

They grew up in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, during the final years of apartheid. Their mother was a teacher and their father a human-rights lawyer, and education was heavily emphasized at home. According to interviews, their parents moved them out of township schools because of political unrest and police raids during the 1980s.

Here’s why they became well known:
•Tsakani Maluleke became the first woman to serve as Auditor-General of South Africa, overseeing public-sector audits and government accountability.
•Basani Maluleke made history as the first Black woman CEO of a commercial bank in South Africa when she led African Bank. She is widely recognized in South African finance and corporate leadership circles.
•Refilwe Maluleke built a career in branding and strategy, working with companies like SAB, TBWA, and later Discovery Health/Vitality.

The sisters are often discussed in South African media as an example of upward mobility through education, discipline, and professional achievement.

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

Collins Kemboi wins the Geneva Marathon

[Becca @wamulwa]

I can’t believe I’m done with my msc coursework 🙌

[Carol Radull @CarolRadull]

It’s a Kenyan thing

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🇳🇦 BREAKING: Namibia just paid off its entire IMF debt. Zero balance. $23.8 million repaid. No new loans. No new conditions. Freedom.

While other nations drown in IMF austerity, Namibia walked out. No more structural adjustment. No more neoliberal lectures. No more foreign control over economic policy.

This is what sovereignty looks like. Paying your debts. Refusing new ones. Charting your own path.

Namibia is free. Other African nations should take notes.

Question for the timeline: Which African country should be next to tell the IMF goodbye?

[♰ 𝙽𝚊𝚎𝚝𝚘 @fw_naetoblaq]

The way life continues after people die is one of the most humbling things ever.

[𝒵𝒾𝓀✯ @_Gottalovezik]

me realizing i am handling a situation better than my old self would have.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Zuckerberg just described the death of human connection on the internet and no one flinched.

One sentence. Fifteen years of erosion in twelve words.

Mark Zuckerberg: “Social media started out as people primarily interacting with their friends. And now… at least half of the content is basically people interacting with creators.”

You used to open your phone to see what your friends were doing.

Now you open it to watch strangers.

You did not choose this. The algorithm chose it for you.

It tested your friends against optimized strangers.

Your friends lost. Every time.

A stranger with better lighting, better timing, and a better hook held your attention three seconds longer than someone who loves you.

So the algorithm buried your best friend’s wedding photos under a cooking video from someone in Dubai you have never met.

And you watched the cooking video.

That was the first replacement. Friends for strangers. You barely noticed.

The second one is already underway.

If the algorithm already proved strangers outperform your real relationships, and AI can now build a stranger more engaging than any human alive, the math finishes itself.

The AI does not have a bad week. It does not post something careless and lose the algorithm’s favor. It does not burn out.

Every word calibrated.

Every frame tuned.

Every pause placed at the exact interval that keeps your thumb from moving.

A human creator competing against that is carving stone tablets in a world that just built the printing press.

The economics are not even close.

A person needs rent, sleep, and motivation.

The machine needs electricity.

When the cost of generating perfect content hits zero, the feed fills with faces that do not exist.

Voices that feel familiar.

Opinions that mirror yours just enough to feel like trust.

Personalities built from scratch to feel like someone you have known for years.

You will not know when the switch happens.

That is the point.

The feed does not care whether the thing holding your attention has a pulse. It cares whether you stay.

And a machine that knows your patterns better than you know yourself will always keep you longer than a person ever could.

This is not a warning. Half of it already happened.

You lost your friends to strangers and did not notice.

You will lose the strangers to machines and call them friends.

Somewhere in a different app, in a different tab, in a room you are sitting in right now, someone who actually knows you is living a moment you will never see.

Not because they stopped sharing it.

Because you stopped being where it was.

[Africa Today Media Group @africatodayMG]

Rwanda 🇷🇼

Rwanda is revolutionizing affordable housing in Africa with houses starting from $11,000.

Bwiza Riverside homes is the first green and affordable housing estate in the history of Africa with more than 70% of all building materials locally made in Rwanda.

120 graduated Rwandan students with most being female, have led the building of over 250 housing units in less than a year with aims to reach 2,200 units with more students coming on-board daily.

[Becca @wamulwa]

The Madison series shows a glimpse of what families go through after losing a parent. It’s heartbreaking 💔

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

🚨BREAKING: 6 cancer cure claims suddenly went viral after the U.S. left the WHO.

Feb 1-4, 2026: Pancreatic Cancer 🇪🇸
Feb 3-5, 2026: Colon Cancer🇰🇷
Feb 3-7, 2026: Colorectal / Lung Metastases 🇨🇳
Feb 6-7, 2026: HPV (Related Cancers)🇲🇽
Feb 7-8, 2026: Blood Cancer / Leukemia🇻🇳
Feb 4-8, 2026: Russia Cancer Vaccine (Various Types)🇷🇺

[Goodreads @goodreads]

What's a book you wish you could read again for the first time?

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

It takes a village but you must be a villager for a village to show up for you.

[Neo Tsipane @NeoTsipane]

The moment you lose a parent, there comes a point where you start measuring every pain against that loss and nothing ever feels as painful, you end up responding to life with a kind of nonchalance not because you don’t care, but because you’ve already survived the worst.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

grieving families should never have to worry about feeding guests who came to pay condolences.

[Becca @wamulwa]

Some of the tv shows I loved this year. ‘The day of the jackal’ had me rooting for the bad guy. Paradise, Silo & the last of us were too good, I can’t wait for new seasons.