Research : The Arts. The Politics of Culture. The Culture of Politics.
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28 Nov 2023
These are tricky times but your voice does not need company.
If you want to resist don’t burn energy recruiting choirs from those whose ambition drowns out their conscience.
No one should silence those who speak.
Equally, critics must not harangue those who will choose silence.
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Requiem aeternam Abdullah Ibrahim.
youtube.com/watch?v=L5i4stj4…
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Joyce Nyairo retweeted
I wrote the @nprmusic obituary for the great Abdullah Ibrahim. npr.org/2026/06/15/846195598…
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Joyce Nyairo retweeted
Today, we mourn the loss of Abdullah Ibrahim (1934-2026).
A giant of South African and global jazz, we are honoured that his final public performance took place on the Rosies Stage at CTIJF on 27 March 2026.
Rest in peace, maestro. Your music lives on. 🕊️🎹
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🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨International jazz icon Abdullah Ibrahim, one of the country's most celebrated musicians and cultural ambassadors, has died at the age of 91.
🔗: tinyurl.com/ysxsbmjb
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I wonder why we are back here 😮💨
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In 10 days time we will know whether GoK is indeed stepping up in its approach to safeguarding lives and respect for the constitutional right to assemble, demonstrate, picket
or whether today’s presentation is the usual empty talk that accompanies the raiding of public coffers.
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You can create pathways to understanding, allow your audience to iterate, to think with you, to laugh at and with you.
Or you can preach overdetermined answers, with strident tone, as if fury is the only legitimate response, the only means of illumination.
Art beautifies thought.
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GoK: 60 years of recycling scams and scandals.
Selling citizenship is as old as 1968. This Vice President then— who was also the minister for Home Affairs and therefore in charge of immigration— capitalized on recently passed immigration laws which rendered Indians stateless.
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Jun 14
“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”
Honoré de Balzac.
Jun 14
The Bible says it is right to invite the president to contribute to church fundraisers - SDA Pastor tells Ruto
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The only downside of an early Sunday morning swim is the playlist🎵🎵🎶
Absolute makwaya genre, leaning on matanga mode. 🫣
Anyway: happy Sunday!!
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Jun 13
Whoever is building this (please not another mall dear ancestors!) in Eldoret must be a real VVIP.
Because the national building code does not apply to him.
Walk past with great care.
Should anything fall on you from this site who will compensate you?
Where is project signboard?
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Jun 12
Notes to self:
When you chose the work of exhumation, you already knew that there are those whose expertise is burial.
That erasing of people’s labour in the name of creating new thinking is not surprising. Colonial disorder bequeathed it. The start-up mentality extends it.
So!
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Jun 12
(GoK 2026 budget proposals include Ksh3.9B as a stipend for village elders to enhance local administrative capacity and recognize role of elders in addressing societal challenges and security.
Aka prepping ground for elections.
Should we tell them that towns also have elders)?
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Jun 11
I am also shocked at how high temp are at this time of the year.
Normally, it would be raining followed by extreme low temp in the evening.
Quite the opposite now. High temp, during the day, even at night it is still warm.
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Jun 11
I think I will be fine if I never see another string of fairy lights in a marquee, honestly.
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Jun 11
Whenever I pull up one of these old pieces of mine covering the (hi)story of Nairobi, I remind myself that I am now an elder in this place. Seven decades of living through the social and political contours of this city. Five of actively studying these evolutions.
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Jun 11
Hey @owobuya, I have only just learnt, thanks to @OdidiBill, that this World Cup has a song😲…
It’s Shakira again, this time with Burna Boy and Uganda’s Ghetto Kids.
My jury is still out🤨
Shakira, Burna Boy - Dai Dai (Official Video) youtu.be/fcnDmrtj6Sk?si=BmKH… via @YouTube
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Jun 11
Eldoret is hot in June, and 4°C warmer than Nairobi.
Never seen this before.
And we continue to raid tree cover…🥲
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