I love idea of Kenya and the spaces between our present Communities, History and Afrika. I look forward to future without imperialism and any racial supremacy.
Nairobi, Kenya
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It is clear that #CorruptionKE is premeditated. Economic crimes are not slapped with fines that dis-incentivise these nefarious activities. Was there public participation when this act was being put together? Do we really care about our country? @MzalendoWatch @theelephantinfo
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Yes, the principle that Africa should not industrialize is the same across the continent. But in Kenya, the way the sabotage is done is through blocking innovation and exporting qualified personnel, and the media telling us to be proud that Kenyans are doing well abroad. That's a different manifestation of the same problem.
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It is clear you don't understand what a protest is. It is meant to cause the most inconvenience so that the powers listen. I applaud the Maa people for this
Kenya Cannot Barricade Its Way to 5 Million Tourists.
Today, tourists bound for the Maasai Mara sat stranded on the roadside since 10am not because of weather, not because of wildlife, but because a community frustrated over an unrepaired road decided the fastest way to be heard was to block every vehicle trying to pass, tourist convoys included.
Last week it was chaos at the airport. This week it is a highway barricade on the gateway to our most iconic reserve. Kenya cannot build a 5-million-visitor tourism economy on a foundation this unstable, one crisis after another, each one eroding the confidence of the very travellers we spent years courting.
Let me be clear about where I stand. The grievance behind today's blockade may well be legitimate. Roads in rural Kenya are neglected for years, sometimes decades, and frustration builds until it boils over. Communities have every right to demand better infrastructure from their county and national governments that right is not in question.
What is in question is the tactic. Blocking a public highway, indiscriminately, punishes the wrong people. It does not punish the county or national government that failed to maintain the road. It does not punish the national Treasury that starves rural infrastructure budgets. It punishes a tourist from Germany or Texas who saved for years to see the Great Migration, who is now sitting in a vehicle on the roadside with no end in sight, filming the whole thing on their phone for their followers back home. That footage does not stay in Narok. It travels the world in minutes, and it does more damage to Kenya's tourism brand than any TripAdvisor review ever could.
This is not a one-off. The Narok-Mara corridor has seen this pattern repeat for years, accident disputes, land disputes, insecurity protests, each one resolved the same way: a county commissioner arrives, appeals for calm, promises "legal means" will be pursued, and the road reopens and then it happens again. Appeals without consequences are not a strategy. They are a pause button.
If Kenya is serious about hitting 5 million visitors, two things need to happen.
✅️1. First, county and national government must treat the reliability of tourist corridors as critical infrastructure, on par with the reserve itself. The Nairobi-Narok-Mara route is not just a road. It is the delivery mechanism for one of our largest foreign exchange earners. It should be maintained, monitored, and protected accordingly, not left to decay until residents feel a barricade is their only recourse.
✅️2. Second, there has to be a fast, credible grievance channel for communities along these corridors, one that does not require burning tyres to get a government official's attention. If the only way a community's road complaint gets addressed is by shutting the highway down, we have built a system that rewards disruption and punishes patience. That incentive structure needs to change.
Kenya is not competing against itself. We are competing against Tanzania, against South Africa, against every destination offering the same wildlife spectacle without the same operational chaos. Every stranded convoy, every viral video of tourists baking in the sun on a blocked highway, is a gift to our competitors and a tax on everyone in this industry who has spent years building Kenya's reputation one satisfied guest at a time.
I remain convinced Kenya has what it takes to hit 5 million visitors. We have the wildlife, the coastline, the culture, and the people. But belief in the destination has to be matched by discipline in how we run it. A country cannot ask the world to trust it with their holiday and then leave that holiday hostage to whichever grievance is loudest that morning.
As always, I choose to remain an optimist but optimism without accountability is just wishful thinking, and today, on that roadside outside Narok, wishful thinking is exactly what is getting tested.
Very frustrating
Mohammed Hersi
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Two JKUAT Architecture graduates, Wambugu Maranga and Henry Ronoh, have made history as the 2026 Regional Winners for Africa in the global Light of Tomorrow competition by VELUX, becoming the first Kenyan project ever to win the award.
Their winning project, “Woven Time,” draws inspiration from the northern Kenyan desert communities, where light has long been used not only to see, but to mark seasons, read the landscape, and navigate the land.
The duo transformed this traditional knowledge into architecture, treating light as a building material rather than simply a utility.
Selected from 539 submissions representing more than 345 schools across 80+ countries, Woven Time stood out for its thoughtful fusion of cultural knowledge, light, and architectural design.
The project was developed under the mentorship of Ms. Jerusha Ngungui (2nd photo) of JKUAT’s Department of Architecture and presented on the global stage at the UIA World Congress of Architects in Barcelona, Spain. ^DP
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Two stories that did the rounds this week clearly illustrate one thing about the Yoo Ess Ay and its vassals - nothing they say has any value whatsoever. Words have no meaning and everything is just a weapon of war.
The Usual Suspects Are Full Of Bullshit part 47291
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Every Kenyan parent considering their children's higher education needs to know this:
If your child pursues higher education in a different country, Kenya will never stop punishing your child for it. Kenya will never allow your child to work in the area of their training. I've seen someone with a MA in Kiswahili from University of Dar, no less, being told she can never get a TSC number. That's Kenya.
So yes, you'll hear civil servants praising foreign education as "world class," and harassing Kenyan universities to uphold the standards of Oxford, but they will punish you for daring to go there yourselves and get that education. You're a nobody, you're just a native. You're not supposed to have ambitions beyond what DO John Ainsworth imagined for you. The way the settlers couldn't stand the idea of Africans going to school, is the same way civil servants see education in Kenya. They decide what is good for you. If bad imitations of Norwegian education are what they think you need, that's exactly what you'll get.
So yes, they are going to defund Kenyan public universities and tell you to go to Str-thmore instead, but dare you take that seriously and seek education in TZ, Rwanda or Uganda, let alone Europe or America. You will return to grief and lamentation. Doors will be shut, one after another. You will come back with a PhD in engineering and the best you can do is motivational speaking.
This is not different from colonial days. In "Not yet Uhuru," Jaramogi says that British colonial officers used to arrest Kenyans at the port and jail them if they dared to pursue scholarships in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile the settlers were fighting tooth and nail for Royal Technical College to remain a TVET and never become a university, let alone one for Africans to attend.
But I'm saying higher education abroad: even if you try here, you will get grief. Matiang'i was particularly vicious about it. He said that if you don't get a C+ in KCSE, you should never, ever, see a university classroom, even if you do 10 diplomas and have work experience. He threatened to withdraw the degrees of those who took the long route.
Our education problem isn't curriculum. It's not the job market. It's British snobbery and class consciousness. It's hostility to knowledge. Our politicians and civil servants are steeped in the British "gentleman" model of public education, which was brought here. And that model hates both skills and knowledge. Period.
That mindset prefers fantasies like "the advantages and disadvantages of British colonialism in Africa." And this anti-intellectualism makes going to school even more desirable because the more we are denied education, the more we sacrifice in our savings and resources to get it. Human beings cannot live without understanding their environment. But for seeking that knowledge, you will be punished. Severely. @scherargei will write a bill reducing medical workers to hospital butlers and elevating police officers to medical practitioners.
@NoCountryHere ametupatia suluhisho.
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Look at this Superpower.
The US President feels so secure that he brings missile defense to a golf course.
If an Iranian official did the same, Trump @POTUS would tweet: “I made them so terrified they even fear golf balls! They even bring missiles to play golf. They’re weak. They’re terrified. We destroyed them.”
Double standards much?
Meanwhile, our Supreme Leader was martyred at his workplace with no bunker, no missile shield, no escape.
This is why we say: There’s a world of difference between us and US (uppercase/lowercase matters)
Don't you dare be used to carry "recreational drugs" to South East Asia, including China. In case you don't know and you are soft towards drug trafficking and consumption, read this and understand that drugs are a weapon of war used by the Western world. cynthiachung.substack.com/p/…
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I think the most painful part about fighting for change is watching people you genuinely believed were part of the movement slowly water it down, shake hands with murderers, laugh with them, sit comfortably around the very oppressors they once condemned, then come back with all sorts of explanations and excuses for why they were there, why it was necessary and why we shouldn’t read too much into it. And you’re left wondering, was any of this ever real, or were some of these people simply well calculated psyops from the very beginning?
And then you find yourself asking an even harder question, are the lives we lost not personal to you? Because for some of us, they are. We remember the young people who lost their lives fighting for a better country, the families that had to bury their children, the blood that was spilled, and maybe that’s why it’s so difficult to understand how someone who stood beside you through all of that can suddenly sit comfortably, laugh and shake hands with the very people we were fighting against 🥹
And somewhere along the way, you begin to understand why people like Patrice Lumumba, Dedan Kimathi, Thomas Sankara and so many other African heroes were killed so brutally. It wasn’t always because they didn’t have people around them. Many did. The problem was that some of the very people they believed they were fighting alongside had already sold out long before the fight was over.
Perhaps that is one of the hardest truths about fighting for change, eventually you realise that people really do have a price. Politics is indeed a dirty game, and I have a feeling 2027 will expose even more about people’s character.
But I really hope the few who genuinely believe in change don’t give up. Is it easy? Absolutely not. But I believe there is something deeply fulfilling about knowing that even if you died today, you never sold out, never shook hands with murderers and never became comfortable with people who have blood on their hands simply because they offered you money, access or power. Does that make you a hero? Absolutely not. It simply means you remained honest about what you stood for.
And eventually, when money no longer matters, when power no longer matters and when all the noise has died down, I think being able to live with yourself knowing you never betrayed what you believed in is what will matter most.
WANTAM!
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Some important political education for the benefit of Africans who still don't understand the world they live in, courtesy @barrahart
What Is A Color Revolution?
Most of Africa’s nations gained their independence between the 1950s and 1960s, but the colonial entity that spent over 400 preceding years oppressing these nations had no intention of ever leaving them alone.
Africa has dealt with the consequences of this truth ever since. Across the continent, and the wider Global South, every nation that has dared to chart a truly independent course has seen a curious rise in political and social turmoil, usually followed by the ousting or decapitation of its leadership, and the swift return to a political status quo that always favored the West.
In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart offers a crash course on the West’s regime change playbook, using Ukraine, Nigeria and Tanzania as case studies.
Nothing to add. I hope we #Kenyans understand how close we are to getting rid of a neo-colonial class of politics by choosing a team like this. I hope we truly understand.
There’s a reason they won’t push this as Grand Coalition, because they know very well this is the kind of coalition that has the potential to serve Kenyans, not their interests.
A Maraga, Omtatah and Sifuna led government has the potential to right so many wrongs in this country. That is exactly why the conversation will quickly shift to who can bring votes, who has numbers and who is “electable”, not because they care about Kenya but because they need politicians they can control and who will protect the very system that has looted this country for decades.
This idea that we need Person A, B or C because they will “bring votes” needs to end.
Go out there and campaign for the candidate you believe in, talk to your family, talk to your cousins, talk to your grandparents, form groups, have conversations, convince people… this is how democracies are won.
No one has a monopoly on votes in this country. As someone once said, THE VOTER IS THE KINGMAKER!!
Why are we waiting for the same political class that helped ruin this country to tell us which direction Kenya should take? Until we understand that the opposition is not a group of wealthy politicians fighting each other but you, the people, demanding better leadership, we will keep surrendering our power to those who have never had our interests at heart.
WANTAM!!
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African based media outlets, with the exception of a few, are the biggest weapon fashioned against the progress of the continent.
How most of the outlets reacted to a recent InterPol report on digital scamming in Africa is a strong evidence, for anyone who’s still in doubt.
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That "practical skills" nonsense that we repeat is destroying our young people. My students struggle with the idea of working at something without seeing immediate results. They hop from course to course, seek immediate returns, never master one skill, especially if there are no immediate rewards. When you look at life like that, addiction is only a step away because the results of addiction are "practical." You drink, you get high. It's practical work, when you think of it.
So if you are a parent of young children reading this, wash that "practical skills" nonsense out of your mouth. Teach your child longevity. Skill improves with work over time. Children have to learn to work without immediate consumer rewards. The skill is also a material reward.
Nothing replaces the consistency of work. Nothing. If you don't believe me, follow Prof Marandi's podcast on how Iran was able to stand up to the US. The years of commitment to actual knowledge and work, not cheap accolades, comes with rewards. One of those rewards is philosophical clarity, which we Kenyans were trained by the British and the Americans to hate. And now our children are paying the price.
If you care, teach your children through work, but also through stories. Tell you child stories of experts and skilled people and their accomplishments. That means that you also must also do the work. Dust off those books you swore never to visit again, and start learning about scientists, artists, writers, architects, engineers .... people who did real work over decades. Tell those stories to your children. Stop reading motivational books and this surge of autobiographies hitting the market. Or read @jnyairo on Substack to get a good critical perspective of these autobiographies now flooding the market.
There is no shortcut to thinking. No AI app can spare you that work. And CBC has to go. It has to. The fundamental problem isn't the content. It's the political philosophy. The content is bonga points. And anyway, the mental problems reinforced by CBC have already started showing up. CBC is going to give our children mental complexes which Kenyan psychologists will not be able to resolve, given that they are also so clueless about the system. But to avoid getting there, teach your child to work, and tell them histories of those who did.
#CBCisheretostay
This doctor was compassionate and courageous at the same time. @ReginaldOduor what do you think?
All federal heavy charges have been officially dropped against the American doctor
Dr. Kirk Moore, who gave hundreds of people a "saline solution" instead of the Corona vaccine and issued them vaccination cards!
Dr. Kirk Moore said amid his tears: "I only did what was right! You cannot ask for 'informed consent' from people when they do not know what is being injected into their bodies!"
This is true medicine, conscientious humanity, and unwavering absolute justice!
Given how the Corona coercions distorted human lives around the world, this historic acquittal is a judicial slap directed at the global network.
Salute to the real doctors, to the conscientious doctors!
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The Spearhead Roundtable 2
In the second episode of the The Spearhead Roundtable, hosts @Big_Mck, @joyfwen, @okorieuche_, @PanSpear, @mayowadurosinm1 and @DavidHundeyin discuss AFRICOM's new digital blackface "Drongo" psy-op, Ibrahim Traoré's revent public address that shook the continent, Donald Trump's letter to Bola Tinubu, and the BATUK situation in Kenya.
Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel: African_Spearhead
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It has been tough being a dissenter to the dominant COVID-19 narrative: insults, innuendos, dismissals, threats, and a host of other nasty things were, and still are thrown our direction. Yet the vindication that has been flowing since the end of 2024 is deeply gratifying.
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British colonies got independence.
At independence they joined the British Commonwealth.
"Commonwealth" is an archaic word for "state".
So the independent countries are still part of the British State.
This is what Joe Kobuthi's MA Project calls "Independence without Liberation"
By design, the transition of administrative power from the colonial administration to the newly independent African rulers was meant to protect the interests of the British crown, and, therefore, it was to those Africans who had been prepared through the education process that power was handed over. These were a safe pair of hands which had no inclination to change the status quo they had become part of. This transition also marked the beginning of the merging of the intellectual, political and economic elites. Political power enabled access to business and other extra-legal means of amassing wealth.
Analysis: theelephant.info/analysis/20…
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