Kenya’s deepening inequality isn’t just statistic but rather a system designed to serve the elite, as @markaotieno highlights. While a privileged few thrive on political connections, millions of ordinary Kenyans are left fighting daily for basic survival. But a powerful shift is underway. We are witnessing the emergence of a new native, an awakened, fearless generation that refuses to accept the outdated "who knows who" economy. Join conversation Video - youtube.com/watch?v=JBu_mbLM… Audio - open.spotify.com/episode/3xJ… @Maskani254 @Siasaplace @nisisikenya @CivicVoiceInt

Brutalism in Netherlands

🧵In 2014, Nairobi got its most comprehensive urban master plan,the NIUPLAN. In 2019, Eastlands got NaMSIP. In 2024,a UoN Master's student named Solomon Njeru spent a year dissecting why NIUPLAN has barely been implemented.

In case any of you wants to check it out, I have attached it in this Dropbox link, along with the NIUPLAN (Nairobi Integrated Urban master PLAN), and a critique of its implementation, written by Solomon Munene as his Master's Thesis at UoN: dropbox.com/t/krJXJrYa9yeQAL…

The problem in Kenya is that money is prioritised and our environment is regularly altered in order to ensure money is comfortable. Examples: - Pedestrians are the majority but yet we insist that footbridges are the only means for them to cross roads, because we don’t want to inconvenience motorists. - Billboards are an eyesore, trees are literally a public good. But somehow trees = empty space, and “empty space” should generate rents, so why not litter the entire environment with billboards to allow people to make money?

This country disgust me. You need development in your brain before infrastructural one 👎😏

Mind you there's land at Nchiru for that golf course that no one asked for. There's an international airport in Isiolo 30 minutes away and an airstrip at Gaitu. There's the huge house in Milimani that can be made a State Lodge. But we don't have water in Buuri. Idiot.

Section of Imenti Forest to be cleared for construction of Meru State Lodge, airstrip and golf course

I just saw a group of 11 people in full Arsenal kits including the goalkeeper, in Budapest 🤣

Not Richy related but the Bible group reveal was definitely not on my bingo card 😁

Arsenal fans celebrating the club’s Premier League title success in Kenya. 🤯🇰🇪 🎥 @nickiBIGFISH

Yessssss! We did it

Kenya’s greatest challenge isn’t just policy failure, it’s a crisis of thought. Are we trapped in elite mediocrity, chasing Western narratives while neglecting the deep wisdom within our own roots? In this episode, “Our Elites Not Organic to Society,” @wmnjoya asks: Why do we seek answers from a collapsing global order, yet shy away from our indigenous knowledge? Without a strong philosophical foundation, our institutions remain fragile and disconnected from who we are. Join the conversation YouTube: youtu.be/MYQv0Xwex7U?si=qrSE… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6OL… @Maskani254 @Siasaplace @nisisikenya @CivicVoiceInt #IWentToAlliance #TheElephant #EliteMediocrity #Governance

I am a Professor of Architecture. I have been a judge for Commonwealth Association of Architects Awards, International Union of Architects Awards, Asia Architecture Awards, AAK-Crown Architecture Awards, etc. Feel free to ignore my opinion. The New State House is plain MEDIOCRE!

Open Spotify on your phone. That app was built in Stockholm. Same goes for Minecraft, Klarna, and Candy Crush. The cobblestones in those photos have produced more billion-dollar tech companies per person than anywhere on Earth except Silicon Valley. Sweden has just 10 million people, roughly half the size of New York state. But it has produced more than 46 billion-dollar tech companies, with 11 of them based in Stockholm right now. The latest two arrived in 2025. Lovable, an app that lets anyone build software just by typing what they want, was worth 6.6 billion dollars by December. Legora, a tool that handles paperwork for lawyers, was valued at 1.8 billion dollars in October. Three things explain how this keeps happening. The first is what Swedish people grew up with. In 1998, the government launched a program called the Home-PC reform. Employers bought personal computers and let workers pay them off in tiny chunks taken from their paychecks over three years. About 850,000 computers ended up in Swedish homes that way, reaching nearly a quarter of the country. By 2005, when Klarna was started, Sweden had 28 broadband connections per 100 people. The US had 17. The world average was under 4. A generation of Swedish kids grew up online before most countries even had reliable internet. The second is the safety net. A founder whose startup blows up in Sweden still has healthcare and unemployment support. Risk feels different when failure doesn't mean homelessness. The third is the money cycle. The people who got rich building Spotify and Klarna twenty years ago keep pouring that money back into new Swedish startups. Former Klarna employees alone have started 62 new companies. Today, the Swedish tech scene is worth around 345 billion dollars. The country pulls in more startup investment per person than anywhere else in Europe. Spotify alone now has 293 million paying users. About 30 of them for every single person living in Sweden.