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mungamwachiro retweeted
Kenya has some of the most two-faced professionals.
You hear of folks resigning in other countries for things they do not believe in, but here even folks who can afford it just nod like a colonial era nyapara at foolishness.
mungamwachiro retweeted
You’ve been right all along David and I think we need to have a serious conversation about the political awareness of African creatives and how easily we confuse international recognition with genuine appreciation of our work.
Take the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), for example. The Americans make no secret of the fact that this programme serves their foreign policy interests. They identify influential people across the world and deliberately “build relationships “with them😳
Now, why would a powerful government invest in the influence of African artists? What does it understand about the power of our voices that we ourselves might not fully appreciate??
And more importantly, do we understand that we can become useful to political interests without ever being explicitly asked to support them?
I have no problem with African creatives accessing international opportunities, but I think we should be able to distinguish between being celebrated for our talent and being cultivated for our influence. Those are two very different things, and sometimes they happen at the same time🚶🏿♀️🚶🏿♀️Anways, tutaitwa haters🚶🏿♀️
mungamwachiro retweeted
Art is work. It's not talent. I've seen students not put in the time to refine their craft and wing it when it's time to perform, because they think they have the "talent." Talent is not even a word I use in my classroom. I never have, and I never will. The students whom you hear me call good are students who put in the work. If they don't, I don't care for their so-called talent.
That's a political philosophy decision. Especially because I know the great suffering we in the arts face when our subjects are perceived as not worth learning, because they are about "talent." Become an arts educator who has to fight for your subjects, or become an artist who does work and doesn't get paid on time, if at all, or not the full amount, then you will discover how bad that idea of talent is. If you do arts as a pass time, hobby or interest, or if you are in a position where you're in the arts and your career is never threatened, you may find it a challenge to understand how bad the idea of talent is. And if you're a parent accepting your child's school to use that idea, sorry, but that a big, big mistake.
mungamwachiro retweeted
The problem is we treat alcoholism as the issue and not the root cause causing alcoholism. The government and society in general has completely failed to invest in this, so we keep treating alcoholism but not the issues causing alcoholism. Which are as varied as people are.
I'm doing a house project in my village in Kangundo, Machakos County, and finding a reliable fundi is proving to be a nightmare. Not because there are no skilled people, but because some simply won't show up for work. Reason? Alcohol.
Alcoholism is not a Central Kenya problem only. It's a national problem, and it's affecting productivity, livelihoods and families across the country.
We need to have this conversation.
mungamwachiro retweeted
This is something I used to ask myself until I realised that we live in a low-trust society.
It's often easier to scam Westerners precisely because they come from high-trust societies, and we mistake that trust for stupidity.
Take the US, for example. You can print your own check, deposit a check by simply taking a picture with your banking app, and even start using some of the money before the check has fully cleared. You don't even have to visit a bank.
Compare that with most parts of Africa, where something as simple as forgetting your banking app password can mean physically visiting a bank branch with all your identification documents.
We have become so accustomed to suspicion and distrust that we mistake our cunningness for intelligence and other people's trust for foolishness.
We think we are smarter because we are harder to fool, without realising that we have built societies where nobody trusts anybody.
mungamwachiro retweeted
Kama unajua Múringa, Chairmans, osario, Mwaúras, Small World, Apple Beez, Eden, Roast House, Sabena Joy, Sommerset, Calabash na uliweza kumaliza UON ama any other college, kneel down today and tell God asante. Because we lost many many...
mungamwachiro retweeted
Residents of Nanyuki were killed when they protested against that Ebola facility.
CS Aden Duale: During Covid, the UN established such a facility in Nairobi Hospital and nobody made noise yet Covid killed more people than Ebola
#JKLive
mungamwachiro retweeted
exaltar os vídeos do ibama acabando com o garimpo ilegal não é suficiente, isso daqui é emocionante demais 🥹
mungamwachiro retweeted
Parliament has finally passed a law prohibiting detention of patients from hospitals and mortuaries over unpaid bills.
Interesting:The courts started the conversation.
Replugging my commentaries on these progressive decisions:
1 .joshuamalidzonyawa.wordpress…
2.debunk.media/detention-of-pa…
mungamwachiro retweeted
Police officers disguised as schoolchildren and a patient in wheelchair raid a drug dealer's home in Lima, Peru
The patient began smashing the door with a sledgehammer while the 'schoolkid' climbed to the upper floors
The undercover team eventually found the drug dealer asleep
mungamwachiro retweeted
Does the bill define what critical medical care is? Has the bill allocated money to ensure that the hospitals have adequate funds to offer these critical medical services?
mungamwachiro retweeted
Do you remember baby Travis, who couldn’t get emergency medical attention at KNH because his mother could not raise Kshs. 20,000 deposit?
This bill is FOR him and families like his.
The Health Amendment Bill makes it mandatory ( with fine of up to Kshs. 3,000,000 ) to offer critical medical care without demanding for monetary deposit!
mungamwachiro retweeted
This is what I meant.
We built this app called, Sifuna App.
The mobile app has so many features including, LMM manifesto, public events announcement, Wantam Arcade where real injections happens, and so many other features, Now waiting for @edwinsifuna's blessings to proceed.
ALT Home screen light mode.
ALT Wantam Arcade, where injection happens.
ALT Home screen dark mode.
mungamwachiro retweeted
This story.
Many Kenyan older woman who receive support from their kids always have a few other women as dependent. The farming money will provide days of work for a neighbour in need. They won't tell you, but that's one way in which they serve community.
Mi padre llevaba dos años diciendo que la pensión no le llegaba. Mi hermana, mi hermano y yo le pasábamos 150 € al mes cada uno. Él siempre pagaba la compra contando monedas.
Un sábado fui con él al supermercado para cargar las bolsas. Mientras buscaba el monedero, saqué mi tarjeta. La cajera lo miró a él, me miró a mí y me dijo:
mungamwachiro retweeted
A man in the Philippines is seen at home checking his Dentist Licensure Exam results on his laptop, one of the most difficult professional exams to pass. His father stands beside him as he waits nervously.
After tense moments, the result shows PASS, officially making him a licensed dentist
mungamwachiro retweeted
I hope they give kids multivitamins there because there is evidently no sunlight they get, seeing the houses are built closer than two cheeks of the same arse.
