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Discover the untold story of Haiti's suffering in this eye-opening documentary. From historical roots to modern-day struggles, this video explores the challe...

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Blackorwa

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6 years

If each African tribe was a country.

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When she played Game of Thrones tune at the office

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The Roman calendar initially had 10 months, October was the 8th month. Two months were added before October to celebrate the emperor Julius Caesar (July) and Augustus (August)

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@254evee_

2 years

So if an octopus has 8 legs and an octagon has 8 sides,why isn't october the 8th month?

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The origin of Nairobi constituency names.

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@blackorwa

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Kenyan counties and their literal names. They rather sound like Game of Thrones kingdoms 🤣.

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

7 months

We forget Western Kenya almost became Israel. Mooted in 1903, the plan was to relocate Theodore Herzl’s Zionist group to about 5, 000 square miles of the Mau Plateau. Kisumu would be Tel Aviv.

William Samoei Ruto, PhD

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Kenya joins the rest of the world in solidarity with the State of Israel and unequivocally condemn terrorism and attacks on innocent civilians in the country. The people of Kenya and their government hereby express deepest sympathy and send condolences to the families of all…

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1 year

My bike guy got his shop broken into during Thursday's demonstration and lost all his ex-UK bikes. Loss in the millions. It happened about 7 pm.

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@blackorwa

6 months

Sigh! I can now share the @CytonnInvest video after the courts ruled it is not defamatory. To Dande ( @ehdande ) F**** you.

Losing Kshs 1 Million to Cytonn

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

2 years

Having lunch outside the Stanley Hotel in 1969. Unimaginable today

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

8 months

You have the maasai to thank for the almost no slaves from hinterland Kenya.

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Where African slaves were shipped.

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11 months

Mark Rutte is 56 years old and single (never married). By that simple fact, he is unelectable in Africa.

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@KingJayZim

11 months

Salma, a Sierra Leonean living in the Netherlands was shocked when she happened to "bump" into Prime Minister Mark Rutte on her way to work. The PM was on his way to the optician. @markrutte

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1 year

Kayole was designed as a mini city with a stadium, hospital, industrial area, technical school and it's own CBD known as Kayole District Centre. The CBD was to act as a secondary CBD to ease pressure from main CBD in town that was constrained on growth by land availability.

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Blackorwa

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5 months

TED thrived when its focus was on science, technology, engineering, and design. However, with the influx of activists, the overall quality declined. I recall a time when being designated as a TED fellow was a prestigious and highly sought-after distinction.

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In the early 20th century, it was believed that this hat prevented malaria. Early settlers wore the hat since doctors attributed the cause of malaria to the African sunshine. It became mandatory for District Commissioners to don the cap as a health insurance

Terryanne Chebet

@TerryanneChebet

5 years

Depending on your age, this picture might remind you of the District Commissioner.

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@blackorwa

7 years

Fight almost broke out in a matatu when a hawker said he's not selling to NASA folks. The passengers kicked him out. #ElectionsKE

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@blackorwa

6 years

The good pilot of @KenyaAirways (KQ792) went round twice at Victoria Falls.

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

11 months

@ehdande @MwangoCapital @CytonnInvest Do what you must, and so shall I.

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

5 months

Corrections to Nairobi constituency names etymologies. Dagoretti = from Maasai 'Entyakuleti' Kamukunji = Kwa Mukunji

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

6 months

We have a new video dedicated Edwin Harold Dayan Dande ( @ehdande ), the pretend finance whiz. We look forward to you paying us. From the bottom of my heart, F*** you! cc @MwangoCapital @eyanm

Cytonn sued me for saying the truth, the courts validated it

Cytonn's CEO Edwin Dande sued this podcast for defamation. Today, Principal Magistrate Becky Cheloti has thrown out the defamation case with the comment that...

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

8 months

5 years ago, I used this question in interviews with Junior Data Scientists. Here are some solutions provided: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Ronnie Otieno

@ronnieonly

8 months

Random question. Write a program that can calculate the number of cars Kenya can register starting from KAA 001A until KZZ 999Z.

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5 years

If you take @nntaleb Data Science course, packages are not allowed - write your own functions (Skin in the code 😉).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

@nntaleb

5 years

Preparing for a new fall course at NYU @nyutandon called "Data science, Fragility, & Extremes", Mondays 6-8 PM. About 50% is from my new technical book, 50% themes within Data science.

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Blackorwa

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3 months

How Nairobi Roads were Named An Avenue runs north to south and normally serves as a median for a city. You’ll notice Moi Avenue runs north to south and divides Nairobi CBD into its two distinctive halves. Kenyatta Avenue also cuts the city into halves although it doesn’t run…

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

10 months

Mary Keitany made a total of Kshs 74 million in 2016 minus her sponsorship with Adidas. Winning the Abbott World Marathon Majors series in 2016 earned her a bonus of Kshs 50 million. In 2017, Keitany made Kshs 40 million without her sponsorship deal.

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Blackorwa

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3 years

I'm interested in researching slavery between African tribes. Did Africa tribes keep slaves? The starting point, there's a word shared by the Luhya and Luo "musumba/misumba" - it meant a man held as a captive worker in the homestead. He was not allowed to marry or build a home

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

6 years

Need a bike lane, smashed on Mombasa Road next to JKIA

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3 years

I told her I will marry her someday

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Blackorwa

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11 months

@ehdande @MwangoCapital @CytonnInvest Defamation: the act of communicating false statement. What's false about CHYS over leverage position & liquidation? Use the cash you would got to court to pay up investors principal. BTW, did you put up you own funds in CHYS? Did you lose anything?

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

4 years

The Luo word for police (Obila) stems from Charles Hobley (Obili) who led an expedition to quel a revolt by the Luos of Kisumu

H i s t o r yKE

@HistoryKE

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#HistoryKeThread : A 1907 photo by pioneer administrator, Charles W. Hobley (communities in western Kenya called him ‘Obili’), of a Wanga woman.

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4 years

The birth of a company

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

1 year

@OpanyThinker @dexxe Find another place to put your comments

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@blackorwa

1 year

To new beginning!

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

1 year

Today I'd like to thank @NPSOfficial_KE and more specifically Inspector James Karunyu who went of his way to help me. I was driving a long Thika Road when I suddenly got ill and passed out temporarily. The car swerved & ended up at the service lane next to Traffic HQ.

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Blackorwa

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3 months

Cooking at Home Mali leads Africa in home cooking, preparing an average of 7.5 meals per week, closely trailed by Malawi, Tanzania, and Kenya. The Republic of Congo, on the other hand, cooks the least, with an average of only 4.1 meals per week. Generally, countries in West…

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1 year

BREAKING NEWS!: @elonmusk announces the launch of @SpaceX Bar and Grill in Nairobi, Kenya. This is in anticipation on Starlink's new capability to download food via high bandwidth internet.

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Blackorwa

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7 years

Lake Victoria water in Mwanza, TZ is so clean you can drink from source

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3 months

It's now a family affair. Someone who seems to be Edwin Dande's older brother is busy on my YouTube channel comments spewing nonsense.

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

4 years

It's not too early to get you child to start their data science career. Join us in launching the first ever #datascience training for kids. Register today

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

3 years

In Medieval Italy, the benches where money lenders did their business from "Banca" - meaning plank, gave rise to the word "Bank". When a lender ceased trading, he would smash his bench - "Banca Rupta (Rupture)", hence Bankrupt

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Blackorwa

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7 years

Why @Nakumatt collapsed and other retail stories.

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@blackorwa

5 months

Kenya started experiencing national power blackouts when geothermal production replaced thermal production.

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Before the amendment of the Tea Act, a farmer needed consent from the Tea Board of Kenya to uproot tea plants. Good thing the law was repealed.

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@cbeekeeping

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Uneconomical crop. Bye. Tea keeps farmers going round in circles, hoping for good prices.. wapi. Kwaheri. Since 1968. 😭😭

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Blackorwa

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1 year

Tram line on Mombasa Vasco Da Gama street (1908).

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Blackorwa

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6 years

Hey @Owaahh , something for you

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Blackorwa

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10 months

I enjoy reading woke nonsense glorifying African dictators. Dude devastated his own people. The US took him out because he sponsored terror directed to the west. In 1988 Berlin bombing, Lockerbie disaster...

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1 year

@AmungaTheGreat @johnallannamu Over to you @johnallannamu

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3 years

Countries that changed their names: French Sudan = Mali Persia = Iran Siam = Thailand Democratic Kampuchea = Cambodia Burma = Myanmar Holland = Netherlands Irish Free State = Ireland Ceylon = Sri Lanka Swaziland = Eswatini Rhodesia = Zimbabwe Czech Republic = Czechia

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Blackorwa

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5 years

Did you know there was a railway line passing through the current location of the Kenyan parliament? It served Westlands.

Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪

@KResearcher

5 years

Parliament Building, Nairobi Kenya 1964.

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@blackorwa

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The land invaded in Ruiru had been inherited by Peter Muigai Kenyatta from his father, Jomo Kenyatta. Subsequently, following Peter's demise, the ownership of the property was passed down to his two sons, John & Peter Muigai

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Blackorwa

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9 months

@Aggripinus @ehdande Right on queue

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@blackorwa

7 months

Nurturing the next age of Data Scientist at Moringa School.

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@blackorwa

8 months

@princelySid The maasai attacked Arab slave traders who attempted to come inland to capture slaves. In effect creatinf a buffer zone arround Tsavo national park.

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1 month

Domain on sale for £1.4 million

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Blackorwa

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1 year

Once upon a time, a railway line passed through the CBD to Westlands. The line was demolished to create room for the building of Parliament. In 1950, the last twin passing over Delamare avenue (Kenyatta Avenue) was closed and Douglas Connell invited to design parliament.

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

6 years

Logarithm books were interesting if you knew enough about them. Before the advent of electronic calculators, “log books” were used by merchants to multiply very large numbers. To multiply large numbers, you add their logs & check the number corresponding to the result logarithm.

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Blackorwa

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2 years

@AdhiamboKE Home is where the heart rests

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

3 years

Painful lesson learnt after 10 years of building machine learning models - data matters way more than algorithms. That's why stats is important, otherwise you just doing guess work.

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

4 years

The German Tank Problem and Kenyan PSVs

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

7 years

What KAPS Tickets Tells Us About Malls in Nairobi

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Blackorwa

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3 years

I beg to differ. Kenya especially Nairobi doesn't have a strong food culture. After watching lots of street food videos across the world & doing a bit of traveling, I concur with the conclusion. What's an authentic Kenyan meal? Don't mention nyama choma

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Blackorwa

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3 years

If you are into #DataScience is a must read. The Book of Why by @yudapearl - I got the book once I got grounded in A/B testing and causality.

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@blackorwa

6 years

Finding The Origin of Kavirondo

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

3 years

Why are coups always led by Colonels? Col. Muammar Gadai - Libya Col. Salou Djibo - Guinea (2008) Col. Mamady Doumbouya - Guinea (2021) Col. Adipo - Kenya (1982) Col. Assimi Goita - Mali (2021)

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Blackorwa

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5 years

Someone had to

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Blackorwa

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6 months

@MwangoCapital @ehdande @CytonnInvest @CytonnRE @eyanm I guess we now have the permission to share the video

Losing Kshs 1 Million to Cytonn

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

2 years

Interesting fact: Emperor Augustus was the adopted son of Emperor Julius Caesar (Father-Son), that's why August follows July (Father-Son)

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Whenever there is a banking crisis or a major corruption scandal, Kenya's GDP drops by about 20%.

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

3 years

Tanzania is a country of music lovers as well as the home of the cheapest mobile data bundles in Africa. These two facts have been attributed as the main reason for the popularity of Tanzanian music on YouTube. However, that's far from the truth

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

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@SaruniBM The crowd gets bigger today

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@blackorwa

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Merger & Acquisition East African Breweries ( @EABL_PLC ) stands out as the merger giant in Kenya. Throughout its 100-year history, the company has utilized acquisitions as a strategy to overcome competition. EABL has notably acquired major brands like White Cap and Allsopps from…

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3 years

I told her I will marry her someday

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6 years

In the area Sachangwan -> Migaa -> Salgaa. 56% of the accidents happen at night. Only 5% of all accident are head on collision

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Blackorwa

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@blastmathongost I am not aware of the Gikuyu anti-slavery stance, but read lots of accounts of Maasai raiding caravans include slave caravans. Hence, a side effect of creating a buffer zone. Slave routes redirected to TZ mainland mostly on account of the menacing Maasai.

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@blackorwa

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The original mobile banking

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@blackorwa

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January and February were the last two months to be added to the Roman calendar since the Romans originally considered winter a monthless period. February remained the last month of the calendar year until the time of the decemvirs (c. 450 BC), when it became the second month.

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

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Uganda is the alcoholism capital of Africa. For every 1 liter of alcohol consumed by a Kenyan, a Ugandan drinks 6 liters of alcohol.

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

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@TimKipchumba This tweet proves that to be a politician you have to be stupid.

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Blackorwa

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She earned Kshs 30 million as a bonus for breaking the women's Marathon world record in London. Her total career prize earned on the track is Kshs 278 million (minus 2018) from 40 wins.

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@blackorwa

7 years

No hyacinth in Tanzania's part of Lake Victoria #Mwanza - compare #Kisumu

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@pamnonga It's beautiful until they come demanding what they are owed 🤔 @Atetwee

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In 1903, the British government offered the Zionist movement territory in the East Africa protectorate for the purpose of establishing a Jewish colony. In 1905, the offer was formally declined much to the relief of the British government.

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The value of money is not what's printed on the paper/cotton, rather it is a representation of work done, if you print money without a corresponding value of work in an economy, you turn that paper money into tissue paper.

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Mkiambiwa sio looks pekee.. pia akili ni muhimu hamskii

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In the 1960s, EABL acquired a brewery known as City Brewery Limited. Its beers then vanished in the market.

Blackorwa

@blackorwa

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Merger & Acquisition East African Breweries ( @EABL_PLC ) stands out as the merger giant in Kenya. Throughout its 100-year history, the company has utilized acquisitions as a strategy to overcome competition. EABL has notably acquired major brands like White Cap and Allsopps from…

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Medusa

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@HistoryKE The name Kavirondo has a different origin

Finding the Origin of Kavirondo

In the Beginning During the colonial period, the Luhya and Luo tribes of Kenya were collectively referred as The Kavirondo. The name…

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The guy has sent me a Facebook request. His name is Henry Collins Oginga Dande. 4 names like his brother (Edwin Harold Dayan Dande). He was a Chef at Cytonn's hotel (Cysuite), now works at Boma Hotel.

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The Kenyan Hansard Analytics

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Blackorwa

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3 years

Everyone pontificating "I told you so" about Cytonn doesn't understand risk and finance.

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China had been trading with Mogadishu, Malindi and Mombasa long before the European set foot in Africa.

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The worldcoin pandemic

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

2 years

The two months were added to align the months with the seasons and astronomical observations

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

2 years

It takes a lot of knowledge to simplify anything

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

3 years

Interesting to find out the stuff I did on my blog is referenced in academic papers!

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Blackorwa

@blackorwa

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Teaching Data Journalism using @Stats_Kenya work. Keep at it.

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Blackorwa

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Losing Kshs 1 Million to Cytonn

Take risks you understand, don't trust experts, and most importantly invest with folks who have something to lose. Whoever has the least information in a tra...

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Blackorwa

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Scene from the incident

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