SOCIAL theorist. Heritage Addict.
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Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
On livestreaming Bunge only needs a one-line amendment as follows:
"IEBC shall, for verifiability, transparency, and to facilitate public information, establish a mechanism for the live-streaming of results as announced at each polling station."
Yes, it is that simple!
Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
Dear White supremacists,
We are not accepting your excuse that slavery, colonialism and neocolonialism are practised by everyone. Your primitive culture is not natural in humans. You are damaged human beings who need to leave us alone and seek treatment in a mental asylum.
Until he presents a concrete plan on Healthcare and Education...to undo the privatized mess that's ongoing right now... I'll Wait.
The Focus ' Public Healthcare, Public Education...not just the buildings, the services. Do you like the services being offered in the public hospitals nearest to you. Do you enjoy the curriculum kids are studying in public schools. That determines your VOTE. The rest is NOISE.
Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
They DID the work! Local organizing, civics, turning up at the polls etc. Not just a miracle.
Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
Across East and Southern Africa, employee theft accounts for over 60% of small business losses. Internal staff acting like cartels collude directly with clients and suppliers to quietly siphon away funds. 1/2
bbc.com/news/articles/cmz98p…
Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
One of the hills I’m willing to die on is that African countries need to look more at countries like Brazil, Mexico, Cuba and even the Indian state of Kerala when designing their health care and social protection systems.. and avoid mimicking the West ..🤔🤔
Politics MUST improve people's lives.
With great joy, I congratulate my dear brother President Lula @LulaOficial on his historic fourth presidential election victory and the renewed trust of the Brazilian people.
We share a simple but profound conviction. Politics must improve people’s lives, uphold their dignity and bring hope to those too often left behind. That commitment to social justice remains at the heart of our work.
I look forward to strengthening the friendship between Barbados and Brazil as we continue building a fairer, more inclusive and peaceful world.
May God continue to guide and strengthen you, dear brother. There is much work ahead, and much good still to be done!
Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
Here we have Chinese venture capitalist and political scientist Eric Li delivering a brutal indictment of the Western political model.
He argues that countries blindly copying the West are setting themselves up for failure.
Democracy promises power to the people but repeatedly fails to deliver real meaningful results.
Elections become little more than political theatre, and voting is sold as empowerment while leaving ordinary citizens trapped in a system that often serves the powerful, not the people.
China chose its own path, and it delivered results.....
Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
There was a beautiful, young and very bright girl called *Wambui (not her real name) we were with in the IDP camps after the 2007 post election violence. She was younger than me. Her family's tent was opposite ours and we'd school together.
She never came out of the tents whole. Just like other hundreds of girls, Wambui was gang-raped. These days she roams in Burnt Forest town, 7 fatherless kids and booze day in day out. She sleeps with everyone.
When I see Kalenjins here on X not being sorry of what their kinsmen did to us (children at that time), I boil with anger. If I had means I'd gather all the people who went through these horrors for collective therapy sessions.
This guys messed up our lives while your children continued to live normally!
🤖 Made with AI
Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
The modern world requires multiskills as employers keep saying, but CBC is limiting our children to only one pathway. Why can't we see this glaring contradiction?
Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
Harvesting 56 HECTARES of trees that you did not plant is MADNESS
Harvesting 138 ACRES of trees you cannot even name is WILD
GREED will finish this country
This is just one of the ways.
CLARIFICATION ON FOREST PLANTATION HARVESTING IN NGONG HILLS FOREST
The Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has noted video clips and photographs circulating on social media alleging illegal logging in Ngong Hills Forest, with claims that the activities are being carried out at night. The Service wishes to clarify the circumstances surrounding the ongoing forest plantation harvesting operations.
Harvesting of mature forest plantations in the Kibiku Forest Block of Ngong Hills Forest is being undertaken following a competitive bidding process and the subsequent award of a tender for the harvesting of 56 hectares of mature plantations, in accordance with the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act 2015, the Forest Conservation and Management Act 2026 (FCMA 2026), the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and forest harvesting rules (2016).
Furthermore, forest operations are required to be conducted between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., as stipulated under the FCMA 2026. Upon completion of the harvesting process, the Community Forest Association is normally engaged to replant more trees through the Plantation Enterprise and Livelihood Improvement Scheme (PELIS).
Regarding the photograph circulating on social media showing a trailer loaded with logs, the Service has received information that the vehicle had broken down and was undergoing repairs. KFS is verifying the circumstances surrounding the incident. The photograph alone does not establish that harvesting activities were taking place at night.
The Service urges members of the public to seek clarification from the nearest KFS station on any concerns regarding forest management and harvesting activities.
KFS urges the public to rely on verified information when commenting on the matter and to report all suspicious activities to the nearest police station for investigations or email [email protected]
Wahu~📚♕ retweeted
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o understood it with absolute clarity.
You do not need chains if you have classrooms.
You do not need to physically prevent a people from imagining their own freedom if you have already shaped the language in which they think.
If the colonized child learns to read in the colonizer’s language.
If the colonized child learns that the "great books" were written in the colonizer’s language.
If the colonized child learns that the history worth knowing begins with the colonizer’s arrival.
If the colonised child learns that success, sophistication, education itself, is measured by proximity to the coloniser’s standards:
That child does not need to be imprisoned.
That child will imprison themselves.
Will measure themselves against a standard designed to find them lacking.
Will work their entire life to approximate an ideal that was never constructed to include them.
Will call this effort "self-improvement."
The classroom was the most elegant instrument the colonial project ever designed.
More durable than any fort.
More effective than any army.
Because armies are visible. Forts can be stormed.
But a belief installed in childhood, in the voice of a teacher, in the language of learning itself, that is nearly invisible.
And what you cannot see, you cannot dismantle.
ALT Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025), Kenyan novelist, intellectual and author of "Decolonising the Mind" (1986). He exposed how colonial education could teach generations to regard their own languages, histories and cultures as inferior, while measuring their worth against the coloniser’s standards. For Ngũgĩ, colonial domination was not merely about occupying a people’s land. It was also about colonising their minds. Political independence could remove the coloniser. Decolonising the mind was another struggle entirely.