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

#Kenya, it is so sad that we are being compared to expensive European countries when it comes to the cost of electricity when it comes to industrialisation. As we speak, Europe is de-industrialising and the factories are going to China. In Africa, #Ethiopia and #Nigeria are best.

That's not quite what happened. Those who tried to change the knowledge dynamics were hounded out of power. In Kenya, Oginga Odinga and Bildad Kaggia noticed there was a problem with Kenyans' political consciousness and started the Lumumba Institute for political education. The vision was to produce cadres who would then be in the media and civil service. The institute didn't last a year. The Americans helped the Kenyan conservatives to shut it down. Meanwhile, the US, through UNESCO, viciously campaigned against expansion of education in developing countries. The US was saying that what needed expansion was media, but really, what they wanted was for American propaganda to reach the grassroots in real time without being subjected to criticism and delay that come from culture and education. #MaishaKazini

Wolololo! What happens now? I never saw this video. @african_stream, where can we find this in full?

No matter how we try to run away, we need cheap electricity costing KES 10/KWh inclusive of taxes and tariffs. We can do this, #Kenya. We should take our country back so that we can be #kenyaisrising.

Awesome mic drop moment from @MukamiPurity on @citizentvkenya prime time. As Purity, @johnallannamu and @joy_kirigia point out we’ve published methodology explaining our analysis. We have our receipts. The government refuses to show theirs while telling Kenyans to “trust me bro.”

A reminder that the promise about Grammys in Kenya is really about colonisation of the African imagination. How is it that at the same time we created an arts pathway knowing it would get no students, we suddenly care about Grammys? And the US won't even bring the Grammys of the US here. They will just do African awards here so that Americans don't have to tolerate Africans in US. The way Kenya government celebrates racism is something to behold. #CBCisheretostay

Let's not get bogged down in the pettiness and narrow-mindedness of serikali. Color and artwork are not a contradiction to order. The contradiction is in the fact that our politicians steal so much, don't work and are too stupid to think of a commuter rail system. They are the origin of disorder. And artwork can still be done on the trains and artists can still be employed. @ntsa_kenya should do the work of giving guidelines to artists in where to paint and not paint. But serikali and the Kenya elite don't work. It's possible NTSA people have no clue what to do except ban things and harass commuters. Serikali plunders and uses violence to destroy the work of Kenyans. This colonial logic of banning, destroying and condemning, instead of guiding and explaining, is colonial, primitive and violent. But since they're so used to ignoring us Africans and mimicking wazungu, maybe this picture of train artwork in the UK can help.

As Africans, we are very ungrateful to the Chinese. Without China, many countries in Africa wouldn't be able to have new and modern infrastructure. From railways to super highways, power plants, airports, etc. Without China, millions of Africans won't be able to afford cheap/affordable smart phones and home appliances. If there's one country on earth that has helped to lift millions of Africans out of poverty, it is China. China is the reason why we have what looks like a middle class in Africa. It costs an average of $25 ,000 to install a solar system in a family home in the U.S. In the U.K, the average cost is £9,000 – £13,000 In Canada, $25,000 In France: 7,500 to €22,000 Across Africa, the average cost is $3,000. Thanks to affordable solar systems from China. Without China, some of you that have solar systems in your homes won't be able to afford it. You wouldn't know what a steady and regular supply of power looks like. Africa owes China a ton of gratitude. We should stop with these silly propaganda against China. If there's one country on earth we should be grateful to, it is China.

This is for the Kenyans who are replying to my post by pointing to contradiction as personal hypocrisy: hypocrisy, irony and contradictions are not the same. Trying to embarrass me by pointing to contradiction as a personal hypocrisy won't work. Grow up.

"To handle demand, NTSA will license private garages and inspection centres, aiming to ease congestion and improve access nationwide." Like I said, Kenya's economic model is not production. It's regulation. GoK creates business for enterprises by enforcing regulation that Kenyans cannot do without getting. So now we have to pay not only taxes and levies, but also licenses. The time and energy Kenyans could use to invent and produce is now spent on getting clearances. Then there's nothing produced, nothing to sell, nothing to grow the economy and employ people with, and nothing to trade with internationally. And it's been like this since colonial times. The settlers even used to tell the colonial government that Africans must be so squeezed to pay licenses, taxes and applications for passes to move around, so that the only time Africans are left with is to work for the settlers for peanuts to pay the taxes and licenses and apply for passes to move around. GoK took the place of the settlers and maintained that economic model of growth through control of Africans, and making them pay for their own control. The colonialists made them pay through cheap and forced labor, taxes, and through confiscation of their livestock if Africans couldn't comply. Until we understand colonialism as an economic system, we won't understand how much GoK didnt change a bit after 1963. But history is irrelevant to the market, right? Anyway, #CBCisheretostay

That's the thing with decolonization. It is used to police people, disrespect their work in the name of some noble goal. I've written about decolonization since 2007 when I wrote my dissertation on it. I'm not stupid and I'm not talking off the top of my head. Since then, decolonizing has been captured by the Western academic factory and re-released to the ideological market as an idol to which Africans must bow or else be called colonized. It has become a fad which has allowed African academics to build their careers. Western funded NGOs sponsored decolonizing conferences to sanitize their parasitism in Africa. So decolonizing has become a form of idolatry, when what human beings create becomes more important than the human beings who created it. And I'm not bowing to that idol. Call me ignorant, narrow minded, rigid, colonized or whatever you want. I'm not bowing.

Wueh! There is a reason that history is no longer a subject in the #Kenya curriculum. From the days of the Jomo Kenyatta Foundation creating education books in Kenya that celebrated Wangũ wa Makeri, not saying that she had been made a "headman" to collect hut tax in Kiambu.

My problem with Africans using Lee Kuan Yew as a stick to beat "African leaders" with is your lack of consistency. You hold him up as an example of a leader who did the things African leaders don't do, but you forget that to get Singapore to the point t he left it, he ran it as a laser-focused 1-party state with a ruthless focus on a single developmental strategy that nobody was allowed to oppose or deviate from. Thus, instead of spending decades on the unfinished capital projects, financial waste, and expensive political theatre that comes with PDP vs APC or NDC vs NPP partisan politics, the whole of Singapore was forced to focus on national development and nothing else. If you tried to oppose Lee's national development plan in the name of "opposition", the state security services would arrest and detain you without trial, or publicly flog you and make you denounce your opposition. When Kwame Nkrumah tried to institute something similar to make Ghana a laser-focused developmental state under his leadership - which was equal to or greater than Lee's - you bunch of idiots called him a despot and a dictator, and you collaborated with foreign governments to remove him in a coup, after which you came out into the streets of Accra jubilating and celebrating his downfall. And even up till now in 2026, after having 60 years to reflect on your history, you're still calling Kwame Nkrumah a "dictator" while simultaneously glazing Lee Kuan Yew, because you're hopelessly dumb. You claim to admire Lee's Singapore because it followed a western approved, capitalist development plan, unlike those dirty Communists in China and Vietnam - but you have no idea that Lee's Singapore might be capitalist in name, but runs one of the most aggressively socialist governments on earth, with birth-to-death subsidies, state programs, government housing, guaranteed employment etc. If someone in your African country runs for election using Singapore's welfare state model as their manifesto, you bunch of idiots will immediately start chorusing "Who will fund this?"and" The problem with socialists is that they always run out of other people's money." If I point out that Singapore can afford to subsidise everything for its citizens because it is a 1 party state that does not exist perpetually 4 years away from new leadership that can rip everything up, which allows it to make investments and plan with 15, 25, and 40-year horizons, instead of planning for how to use the latest IMF loan to win the next election in 18 months, the same idiots will say that they prefer their APC/PDP, NDC/NPP quadriennial stalemate instead of actual national development because "multiparty electoral democracy is the gold standard for governance." You people have no idea what you want, and no idea how the world actually works. Everything inside your head is what some white dude dictated in there, because you were trained to receive instruction, not to think and create your own. That's why nobody takes you seriously.

I am fascinated by how many “western” imagine the US of A is the singular country that is allowed to have “National interests” at some other country’s door step. The US is fighting Russia in the Ukraine. The US is fighting Iran in the “Gulf”. Taiwan? theafricareport.com/412764/t…

"Do not interrupt me Ambassador!" 🔥 Give Rufai Oseni his flowers as he cooks the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria 👏🏾 @ruffydfire This is how every media should deal with Israeli spokespersons.

There is one RSF general's sibling who has a #Kenyan passport. I suppose that will help him get around as the RSF collapses.

I’m no fan of the Iranian Regime. They messed with me plenty when I lived there years ago. I saw the dark side of how they control the population with my own eyes. NOT a fan. However, the facts are the facts:

Here is a list of foreigners whom Evelyn Cheluget, the Director General of Immigration Services, has issued Kenyan passports to travel with. The orders to issue the passports came from the Statehouse. Number 6 is Zimbabwe’s Wicknel Chivayo, who is supposed to help Kasongo steal the 2027 elections. To apply for a Kenyan passport, you need a Kenyan identity card and an e-citizen account, and you have to pay. Whose account was used for this illegal passports application? Did they use a zero token where no payment was made? Why were the immigration officers told the applicants were Very Important Persons (VIPs) and to issue express passports? Please Google the list of names of those Ruto gave Kenyan passports. Post what you find on the comments. Selling Kenyan passports is evil but selling our passports to criminals is pure demonic behaviour! Ruto Must Go!

TO THE YOUTH OF KENYA: Article 55 is NOT a suggestion, it is a COMMAND! The future doesn't belong to the youth; the present does. The Constitution is a debt the State owes you. Under Article 55, both National and County governments must ensure you access education and skills, representation, real jobs, and protection from exploitation. These are rights, not favors. If affirmative action only benefits the well-connected, then the State is violating the Constitution. We must stop the culture of lamentation and move toward the culture of constitutional litigation and civic action. Stop lamenting. Start demanding. Know your rights. Organize. Act. #KatibaMkononi #YouthPowerKE #ReKe

Nobody "brought us infrastructural development" and I think this myth should have died already. Colonialism was an economic project for the benefit of the imperial Metropole, not its colonies. Any "infrastructure" was built solely for the purpose of facilitating the transfer of wealth and resources from the colonies to the Metropole (in this case London/Liverpool/Southampton. That's why rail lines were only built from inland mining/plantation areas to the port. That's why at independence, after more than a century under British rule, almost nowhere in Nigeria outside of the areas the colonial officers lived and worked in had tarred roads or electricity or pipe borne water. Under British rule, despite having over 50 million people, Nigeria had only ONE university, which wasn't even classed as a standalone university but an external college of the University of London - because again, its purpose was not to educate Nigerians and facilitate proper elite formation, but to train a tiny pseudo-elite to assist the colonial government in its mission of wealth and skills transfer from the Nigerian colony to the British Metropole. I remember having a chat with @BOGbadams 4 years ago when he told me about the history of Ikorodu road in Lagos. Apparently until after the 2nd world war, there was no road between Lagos and Ikorodu, so people had to go exclusively by boat/ferry, which led to multiple disasters and avoidable loss of life. When the citizens of Ikorodu protested to the colonial governor Lagos and asked for a road, he told them "My job is to serve the queen, not to build roads for you." The people had to do a collection and fund construction of the first Ikorodu road by themselves, while practically all the wealth, resources and taxes extracted from them were being used by the British to fight Hitler. That was the actual reality of colonisation and people need to stop unintentionally romanticising the worst period of their own history. If I break into your house to steal your belongings and I point a gun at your children and make them build a bridge from my front door to your back window (using materials from your house) to facilitate my theft, that bridge is not "infrastructure" and I haven't done you a favour. Please stop "appreciating" nonsense.