Itinerant 🌍 native. Complicating “international” equations. Tech*(Policy x Diplomacy x Governance)*Psych. Africa isn't poor, just misunderstood & mismanaged✊🏾
I mean, this is also what happened on our shores a few centuries back. Our ancestors were just chilling when the de-melaninateds arrived. We haven’t known peace since.
🤷🏾♀️
Illegal immigrants invade the beach in Lampedusa among shocked tourists. A situation completely out of control. Giorgia Meloni is not the solution, she is part of the problem. Stop the invasion, save Europe!
When I say fear women, fear women. So someone found out his wife had divorced him and was getting married again while they were still living in the same house. Mind you, these aren't young folks.
Safaricom Fibre randomly dipping is now a “normal” occurrence.
We have slowly and steadily been forced into accepting mediocrity across public and private services in this country.
The question before us is simple:
Why is there money for CASs, but not doctors?
It must become the single question they encounter everywhere they turn!
😮💨
Kenya's politics is too expensive, unsustainable. And to imagine this is amidst a healthcare and an education crisis, you realize how inverted govt priorities are. Ironically they held a Wage Bill conference. 🤣
“Kileleshwa Primary School in Dagoretti North in Nairobi County has the capacity to host about 2,000 learners but only has 200 attending the school. The school is built on a large compound and is well-staffed but has failed to attract enough learners over the years.” /1
The most memorable thing I’ve heard today is that it’s not sheer coincidence that these stories of felled gangsters are littering these streets, just as the Kenya Police-in-Haiti situation is drawing criticism.
Consent is manufactured in covert ways these days. 🙌🏾
Due to popular demand, here's the story of Michael Mwaniki, aka Mwane/Mwanii Sparta, the gangster who rose to prominence after cops dispatched the infamous Tomaso aka Gagula to his maker.
A thread:
In London, the City Planner is second to the Mayor. In New York, the City Planner speaks and everybody trembles.
"In Nairobi, the City Planner is anonymous, and that tells you why we are in trouble because what he says doesn’t matter.” 😮💨😮💨
City Hall has proposed a new policy, that if passed, will increase the number of skyline limits in some areas such as Kilimani, Kileleshwa and Muthangari up to 15 floors from the current limit of four floors.
It is today I have learnt that Safaricom allows you to check how many phone numbers are registered to you, via *106#.
Hat tip to
@martingicheru
for the elimu.
Who are her area reps? This isn’t about “bravery in the face of disaster”, and our media’s obsession with these tropes is a problem for political and governance accountability.
Stoked to have been asked by
@antonioguterres
to serve on the High Level Panel on
#DigitalCooperation
. Looking forward to working with the co-chairs,
@melindagates
and Jack Ma, along with the other eminent panelists on this!
@KirkWrites79
“When you’re a follower, often you’re not being led by the right person...This is not what paradise or salvation looks like to me. You’re using me to prop up fraudulent systems … I want no part of that, so I’d rather lead, even if I don’t know where the hell I’m going …”
Uhuru-Maggie’s relationship would make for one heck of a show.
Coz weren’t we all convinced babe was outta here on Sept 13, but she keeps popping up, by his side?
Not waiting till then to “change things” is the revolution needed! 🤷🏾♀️
It’s no longer about who you vote. It’s about how those in office are held to account at every turn.
“Robin took a personal trip to Turkana and his car broke down there. Instead of having the car put on a flatbed to the nearest town for repair, the car was towed back to Nairobi. Everything amounted to KES 250 K that was billed to the company”.
Fellow Kenyans,
We may not agree on much, but I think there’s a proposal here we can organise around.
That is, no private services/allowances — ON OUR DIME — for public officials.
Starting with education and healthcare.
Loyas, tell us how we can proceed.
Who else struggles (and on a very deep level) with the notion of “selling/marketing yourself”, even though that’s what this crazy world demands of it?
As the world demands your elevator pitch, may you always be able to confidently say, “let’s take the stairs instead”.
“When I approached our embassy, balozi (ambassador) sent me away. He tells girls to go back home the way they came over,” said Ms Nyangarisa. She also revealed that embassy staffers usually advise them to go ask the Arabs for forgiveness.”
“So brutal was the collection of taxes that by 1910, the direct taxation of Africans constituted 85% of the government revenue – meaning they were paying to be colonised […]
Like the Hut Tax, Ruto’s housing tax is as unpopular – 120 years later.”‼️
Are these really the terms and conditions under which
@WHO
wants to set up its Africa presence?
We are not budging even a little bit on these colonial tendencies? 🤷🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️💔
“As long as I have air in my lungs, I will always try to cover us all and I will certainly try to center the needs of the most marginalized.”
Heyi. We are legion. 🙏🏾✊🏾
“An expensive custom-made operational chopper for the National Police Service has been reconfigured for use by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
This has left police without both surveillance and operational chopper, officials said.”
Aki jameni. How are you so called journalists finding what was said by KRA officials to be clarifying?
Regurgitating what was said by them and parliamentarians isn’t clarification, it’s chat GPT-esque summarising. 🚮
Pleased to be on this year’s list!
My hope is that we see it happen more and more, and not only when women are 'given' positions to fulfil diversity quotas or clean up messes. We have a ways to go for 'The Female Future' to unleash its true potential to heal the world.
✊🏾
Revealed: The dirty tricks of KCSE heating cartels
Oh, the amount of technical falsities in this piece.
🚩Telegram channels aren’t E2E encrypted.
🚩 VPN doesn’t refer to “Very Private Networks”.
Hamjali na hamjali NMG? 🤡🤡🤡
Hi guise,
Seems I must issue a professional disclaimer.
Yes, I am from Kenya.
Yes, I work on tech policy.
But my work scope is global.
Not just Kenyan, or African.
Black, African people do that too.
(Stop pigeonholing me, m’kay? 🙂)
“Of the world’s top 100 websites, Wikipedia is the sole noncommercial site. If the contemporary internet is a city, Wikipedia is the lone public park; all the rest of our public spaces are shopping malls—open to the general public, but subject to the rules and logic of commerce.”
“It is the first time in Kenya that a community is suing the State seeking to have it compelled to provide a clean and healthy environment, which is a constitutional right.”
Some 10 students from Voi Boys Secondary School have allegedly been suspended for eating extra pieces of bread during breakfast.
According to a report by Nation, the students who were suspended on Monday were asked to report back to school with a bale of wheat flour and 10
The takeaway from this illicit brew crackdown (and even Bhang) is that govt should be building chemical factories and putting these people to werk! The ingenuousness here is misdirected.
And unfortunately the hustle incentives are not met with sound policy/regs.
Katambe basi!
Some news: 📢
After 3.5 years, today marks my last day with the Web Foundation.
It has been an exciting journey working on advancing the open web as a basic right and a public good. I’m particularly very proud of my work there on Digital Equality and Women’s Rights Online.
As we await confirmation that it is indeed the Kenya Red Cross behind this blast that many others have confirmed receiving… some questions, which are asked in the greater public interest, while appreciative of the info… see 👇🏾
You sorely need to expand your imaginary beyond the theatre of elections. Cc anyone else who limits their public participation to that once-every-five-years circus.
We are in this shithole because of :-
1. Kenyans who didn’t vote.
2. Kenyans who voted along tribal lines.
3. Kenyans who were waiting to be rewarded once their person got in.
4. Kenyans who were bribed.
It was an honour to be selected by UN SG
@antonioguterres
to join the High-level Panel on
#DigitalCooperation
. Following 9 months of global consultation & deliberation, check out our final report: “The Age of Digital Interdependence”
“No African country has officially allocated a national holiday in honor of the gods of indigenous religions.”
~ Ali Mazrui, circa 1991.
Has this changed anywhere? 🤔
“The Peter Principle states that people rise up the hierarchy to a level of incompetence. They cannot perform at that higher level.”
Nabii’s cabinet, summarised. 🎯
“And then a new VW Touareg engine of KES 200 K was installed in the car. The full amount of KES 450 K was charged to the company as logistics fees. This is something everyone knew at the company,” a source disclosed.”
I feel like when the dust settles, sections of KoT must do meet ups at Bomas and recreate scenes, for meme content.
I volunteer for choir duty!
#UnbotheredAunty
😎
I am really sorry for what has happened at JKIA with the blackout. There is no excuse worth reporting and there is no reason why our airport is in darkness. I will be announcing the decision we will make tomorrow 9am at JKIA after a meeting with the leadership of the airport.
Kenyan passports under increased scrutiny at Schiphol. Right at disembarkation. With immigration Qs that one will still answer up ahead esp if entering Europe.a
Even as the “one term president” line of civic thought is gaining traction:
❗️we need civic action in the interim. It is time to flex that muscle (further). It’s not even been a year of this govt and 🥵, very few people aren’t feeling this heat. We can’t wait till 2027!
Kenya, in particular, is NOT poor.
It is hella mismanaged, including handling this disaster.
This, this is a poverty mindset at best. These ones have no shame begging.
The problem with poverty. It turns us into a perpetual beggars, always at the mercy of others
"We call on our partners to meet us at this historic moment of solidarity & respond effectively by increasing their IDA contributions... to at least $120 billion"
President William Ruto