Black Amethyst

Your opinion of the world is also a confession of character ~ Ralph Emerson.

@RufasKe Pesa za pensioners zinachezewa kamari hivi 🥲

Let's gather here and weep for KPC IPO investors. Rule number 1: If the government is pushing it.. Stay away!

@IRANinZIMBABWE 😂

Trump, please talk. We are bored.

I like devolution, let everyone ruin their own region. Everyone and their thief. It will get to a point, your ID will be used to admit you into county hospitals.

@joshcarlosjosh Nice one 😂

JESUS: so do you still celebrate the day I was crucified? ME: oh yeah, it's a major holiday JESUS: and what is it called? Sad Friday? ME: ... JESUS: tragic Friday? ME: ... JESUS: WHAT IS IT CALLED

@VictorWanyama Happy retirement. We are proud of you!

Today i announce my retirement from football, Four different countries six different clubs, A boy from Muthurwa with a big dream, carrying a Nations pride everytime i stepped onto the pitch. To my family, friends, agent, the fans and the coaching staff that helped me throughout

@JeremyTate41 There is something so beautiful about tradition and the mystique.

Holy Week in Spain is absolutely unreal

i think everyone is overestimating how long it takes to read a book. some books do be long but your average book takes like 3-5 hours in total.

@DanCollins2011 No

This feels like the first war in my lifetime where literally the whole world wants the U.S to lose. Do we have any friends left?

@stanley_kamakei Your hero, our thief

Sifuna naye amekuja sana. You don't mishandle our hero the way you want. He is a governor, respect in Samburu and in the maa nation. Sifuna needs to apologise on this. Hon. Lati Lelit need to be respected.

@KTNNewsKE Is she this out of touch or does she just want to piss us off?

First Lady Rachel Ruto’s claim that there has been no drought since Kenya Kwanza took power has sparked controversy, as the country experienced severe drought earlier this year. #KTNLeo

@Chetuyachinago Let them post even more so that Africans see what our leaders threw away by facilitating those shady deals you make reference to. How else will we introspect?

When will Africans finally outgrow this embarrassing and childish tourist syndrome? An African flies to a European country, sees a shiny building or a fancy train, whips out their phone, and immediately runs to social media to cry, "When will our country have this?!" SPOILER ALERT : those train rides are not free. They are directly subsidized by the missing wealth and uncollected taxes of the developing world. Truth is that, while the rest of Europe was tripping over themselves to aggressively extract African resources by sending gunboats, missionaries, and colonial administrators to do their dirty work, Luxembourg was playing 3D chess. They did not need to get their hands bloody or dirty. Instead, they quietly positioned themselves as the ultimate offshore tollbooth for the wealth being plundered from the Global South. Here is how their white-collar criminal network operates: A massive multinational conglomerate digs up copper in Zambia, pumps crude in Nigeria, or mines cobalt in the DRC Congo. By any standard of fairness, the immense wealth generated from those resources should be taxed locally to build the exact same roads, schools, and train networks we keep drooling over. But the global financial system is rigged. Instead of paying their fair share, that corporation sets up a shell company and often literally just a dusty P.O. Box in Luxembourg. And then through the dark arts of corporate accounting known as "profit shifting" and "transfer pricing," the company manipulates its books. The African subsidiary, the one doing the actual extraction, magically records zero profit. Meanwhile, the Luxembourg P.O. Box records billions. Africa gets the environmental degradation, the exploited labor, and a depleted national treasury. Luxembourg gets the capital. Now, Luxembourg taxes these phantom P.O. boxes just enough to make it look legitimate, pulling in about 5% of their GDP. But that’s just the cover charge. When you factor in the massive ecosystem built to service this racket,the armies of corporate lawyers, wealth managers, auditors, and bankers designing these tax-dodging schemes, it accounts for a staggering 30% of Luxembourg’s entire GDP. Put the math together, and you realize that nearly 40% of their national wealth is a monument to laundered money. It is the most flawlessly executed heist in modern history. They managed to siphon the wealth of a continent without firing a single bullet or toppling a single regime.

@ProLearner77 @coolkid__8 🤣

@coolkid__8 But, the Kenyan shilling is stronger than Iran rial. Kenyans believe in strong currency

Iran a heavily sanctioned country still sustains industries and a structured economy. Kenya a free country yet many citizens struggle in unstable, informal jobs. It hit me: sanctions hurt, but systems matter more. Structure beats freedom without direction.

If my name was Pharaoh I'd speak just like this.

@omeratweets @CallMeKulubya We have been to countries run better than us and we come back mad 😠

@CallMeKulubya i wish it was mandatory for kenyans to spend at least 6 months abroad via some G2G volunteer program

If Kenyans really knew how much other countries are going through, they would be proud of the developments in their country, they would be so proud of the leaders who put them first. Dear brothers and sisters in Kenya, you are too lucky to complain

@CallMeKulubya Can’t stop, won’t stop. We still have a long way to go and complaining is what gets stuff done here.

A cutting reflection from Cardinal Ratzinger, Good Friday 2005: "Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the condemned man is innocent, and he looks for a way to free him. But his heart is divided. And in the end he lets his own position, his own self-interest, prevail over what is right. Nor are the men who are shouting and demanding the death of Jesus utterly evil. Many of them, on the day of Pentecost, will feel "cut to the heart," when Peter will say to them: "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God... you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law." But at that moment they are caught up in the crowd. They are shouting because everyone else is shouting, and they are shouting the same thing that everyone else is shouting. And in this way, justice is trampled underfoot by weakness, cowardice and fear of the diktat of the ruling mindset. The quiet voice of conscience is drowned out by the cries of the crowd. Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think."

@ptahtoxic @themayor_ke But tbh even in comedy he was playing a fool most of the time so maybe he wasn’t acting 😩

@themayor_ke Came to a conclusion that somebody can have brains to make people laugh and no incites of how to lead people .mtoto mjinga huyu

Every time you will want to vote for a comedian, just remember Jalango.

I fell in love with this quote: "No matter your age, you'll always wish you started younger, but today is the youngest you'll ever be. So start today."

@Kelvinmaboko @MarthaAhumuza Wdym it’s right there in its name 🤷🏽‍♀️

@MarthaAhumuza As long as you keep taking a gendered view of GBV then you ain't solving the problem

I often think about Ivy Wangechi. If I’m being honest that was a turning point for me in my feminism journey. A woman weeks away from finishing med school, hacked in broad daylight. That alone should have been enough to produce a kind of collective action against GBV.