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Black Lives Matter, but the black in Black is not the darker skin complexion. link.medium.com/9Q0YaWCK37

"the demolitions were to make way for a sewerage plant... Northlands City, a Kenyatta (president’s) family investment. ...for expats and the upper ruling class... built at the expense of the Kenyan people, and for what? So that the rich are able to shit." africanfeminism.com/northland-curs…

86-Year-Old Is Killed in E.R. Over Social Distancing nyti.ms/2wof2tC

What type of decentralized MARKET economy is this? What explains the growing divergence between actual work and wages/salaries? #unemploment

@CouragePW This is for Monday right? How about Tuesday?

We have decided to close Howison Park tonight. Tryouts and Courage 7s Final will be rescheduled. Stay safe out there.

@DavidNdii Lays out an ahistorical premise, then shoots it down. Nation-state system is founded an alliance of capitalists, an hegemony that has always been challenged but still lives on strong.

The demise of the nation state theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/…

@DavidNdii sorry, below should be self-serving rather than self-servicing

@DavidNdii The focus on so-called manufacturing/processing industries is self-servicing - its nothing more than extracting raw materials (oils, diamonds) etc) for the foreign consumers

@missndungu @gathara @wmnjoya skills instead of knowledge is like saying dinner will focus on Sukuma wiki (collard greens) instead of Ugali (cornmeal).

Today in #Dumbassery... Remember this? #EducationReformsKE @wmnjoya nation.co.ke/news/education…

@kopalo u care 2 much 4 MPs, so aspects of the job sucks, but so 2 do other jobs. The contemporary legislator is not an accountant or auditor 4 the executive, they SHOULD be the boss who provides the job description, duties & assignments, budget etc

@kopalo Liberal democracy is incoherent about parliamentary prerogative regarding "rule" of "law". Since passing real law is constitutionally bounded, legislators have become, as you imply, merely an auxiliary of the executive

@kopalo Hey Ken, of course the president "announces/gazettes etc." these things with "fun-fare" galore BUT which part of the executive bureaucracy is holding thing up? Isn't this ultimately on parliament to pressure them

@kopalo The bourgeoisie class "alliance of entrepreneurial capitalists, state bureaucrats, and technocrats who collectively pursue an economic development strategy that increases control of agricultural and industrial production" (Gavin Kitching, 1987) is safe.

Watching Bankers and Empire @CSPAN c-span.org/video/?427014-…

@gathara I'm surprised you are not seeing the hand that pays the piper. Do U think it a coincidence that Tillerson has also just arrived in NBI?

theelephant.info/documents/rail… The joint statement is a little better. At least it acknowledges that our problem stems from our refusal to deal with our history. However, it too has many problems. It seems to reduce the issues to the contests between the Odingas and the Kenyattas.

Today In #Dumbassery... nation.co.ke/news/Raila-ful… According to @RailaOdinga, the problem with Kenya is not its parasitic political class and the extractive colonial state it oversees, but rather it is Kenyans and our "diversity". We have seen this movie before. It doesn't end well.

@gathara Doesn't have to be- bet our international partners will take care of it. If the "think tanks" provides a sinecure 4 the "opposition" as good as govt, then OK, we can wait

And here's the clincher, dear Kenyan. "Establish and office and retain a retinue of advisors". That's your money they are talking about. It is what all this has been about.

@Nanjala1 @okothkenneth the entire program/matrix is predicated on averting revolution i.e smooth transition & continuity The deals r decades in the making, just taking longer for UK to deliver his end

Raila the politician and Raila the changemaker are constantly stuck in an duel. He wants to be the leader he thinks Kenya needs and that many believe he can be but choosing that high ground cost his father dearly and he witnessed it first hand.

@okothkenneth @Nanjala1 @okothkenneth u probably know more of the back story; but obviously @UhuruKenyarra blinked on instructions from Tillerson. @wmnjoya @scheafferoo @bonifacemwangi @RookieKE @daisyjerop @gathara

@gathara @theelephantinfo @bonifacemwangi A more elaborate treatment of your argument is available in Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's "Identity and Violence"

@gathara @theelephantinfo @bonifacemwangi I've replied arguing that tribe/identity is a 1) spontaneous 2) extralegal 3) governance structure, main active ingredient being tribal accents as shibboleths