Peter Magati

Years of collaboration & dedication from incredible colleagues made this possible! It highlights crucial steps in safeguarding farmer interests from exploitation by the tobacco industry. @JacobKibwage @RLencucha @Tobacconomics @IILAinfo @acsglobal @IDRC_CRDI @MOH_Kenya @kilimoKE

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iSraeli analyst: Iran is destroying American military bases 🔹 Israeli journalist Alon Mizrahi stated in his latest war analysis that Iran is destroying American military bases completely and on a very large scale. 🔹 This analyst, on his Substack page, speaking about the aggression of Israel and the USA against Iran, said: "We are witnessing a historic event." 🔹 The Israel journalist added: "Within four days, Iran has managed to expand its military influence and dominance in the region. This country has destroyed the most valuable and expensive bases, property, and military equipment in the world."

@shikshaarora_ @Ayieko__ Sik moja utaelewa kitu kimoja, mitandao ya kijamii ni kama soko. Kuna wachuuzi, wateja, wezi, wendawazimu, wapita njia n.k. Wewe mwenyewe kwa hiari yako, utachagua wale utaongea nao. Lakini kama sokoni huongei na wendawazimu, mbona mitandaoni ujisumbue nao?

The civil service implements existing policies. Our work is to change policy. Its not their job to think outside the box. They are the box. Why did the Treasury mandarins or KRA not come up with reforms like this before?

USD $250 + vat for a desk per month. Extra cost to book a meeting room and challenges in having private calls. They should review their understanding of the target market and competition (cheaper to rent space nearby ( renting at Kofisi Karen never made sense)

This Spectator piece reads like gossip until you realize it’s actually a warning. A senior English barrister takes a real appeal he spent a day and a half writing, feeds it to an AI model, and gets back something better in 30 seconds. It matched the standard of the very best barristers, and it did it instantly, for pennies. That’s the moment the illusion breaks. Law has always sold itself as irreplaceable because it’s complex, nuanced, and human. But most of the value in modern legal work isn’t wisdom. It’s pattern recognition, structure, precedent matching, argument assembly, and risk framing. That’s exactly the territory AI eats first. The scary part isn’t that AI can draft contracts or scan case law. That’s already obvious. The scary part is that once the output quality crosses a threshold, the pricing logic collapses. Clients don’t care how many years it took you to become a barrister if the document they receive is objectively worse than something generated in seconds. So the profession reaches for comfort stories. “AI is just a tool.” “There will always be a human in the loop.” “Judges and clients want a human face.” Those are emotional arguments, not economic ones. And economics always wins. The barrister in the piece understands something most of his peers don’t want to admit. Law isn’t protected by status or tradition. It’s protected by cost and friction. Once those disappear, so does the moat. The first to go are process lawyers. Then drafting specialists. Then advisory roles with no client relationship. Eventually people start asking why they’re paying six figures for a human to read out arguments an AI already wrote better. What makes this explosive isn’t just unemployment. It’s who lawyers are in society. They sit at the top of institutions. They write rules. They shape policy. They’re used to being indispensable. Replacing them doesn’t just disrupt jobs. It destabilizes power. That’s why the resistance will be fierce. There will be calls to ban AI. To regulate it out of courtrooms. To slow it down. But you can’t regulate away a cost advantage that large. The most honest line in the whole piece is the advice to his niece. Don’t take on decades of debt for a career whose core value has already been automated. Not in twenty years. Now. This isn’t anti law. It’s anti denial. AI isn’t coming for lawyers because it hates them. It’s coming because much of what they do turned out to be legible, compressible, and cheap. And once that happens, respect doesn’t save you. Only reality does.

Men who think girls only belong to the kitchen are the same men who want a female doctor when their wives get pregnant..

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Ati mourn with dignity, kwenda huko!

💯 Who would've imagined? @gchelwa

Raila Odinga was like the elephant in a dark room.Each of us touched a part of him;a leg and thought him a tree, a side and thought him a wall, a trunk and thought him a hose, a tail and thought him a whip.Only now, with the light on, and him resting with the ancestors do we see the enormity of who he was — good, flawed, immense, divisive and deliberative. An indelible part of 🇰🇪 journey.

Condolences to his family and supporters. One doesn't have to agree with him, especially in recent years, but Raila Odinga was arguably the most consequential political figure in Kenya for three decades. His passing marks the end of an era in Kenyan politics. #Railaodinga

The Nobel Prize in Economics is characterised by extreme institutional concentration: almost every prizewinner has passed through an economics department at an elite US university. Sure, these universities attract top talent globally. But this institutional concentration of prizewinners is part and parcel of a broader set of problems in the field of economics: elite dominance, intellectual gatekeeping, the dominance of Western perspectives, and disciplinary homogeneity. These dynamics have been well documented. Here are three papers and one book that examine them: Fourcade, Ollion, and Algan (2015), “The Superiority of Economists”: Economics is a uniquely hierarchical and self-reinforcing field, where elite training pipelines dominate publication and influence. Baccini and Re (2023), “Who Are the Gatekeepers of Economics?”: A small group of elite institutions and scholars controls the editorial machinery, reinforcing disciplinary homogeneity. Freeman, Xie, Zhang, and Zhou (2024), “High and Rising Institutional Concentration of Award-Winning Economists”: Economics has the highest and growing institutional concentration among elite academics across all disciplines. Dutt, Alves, Kesar, and Kvangraven (2025), “Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction”: Mainstream economics is rooted in Eurocentric, colonial assumptions.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.” #NobelPrize

Tu Youyou became the first mainland Chinese scientist to be awarded a #NobelPrize in a scientific field - for discovering artemisinin, a malaria cure that’s saved millions. Today we reveal the 2025 medicine laureate. Stay tuned.

The African Union has joined the call to replace the outdated 16th-century Mercator map which distorts Africa’s true size, with the Equal Earth projection, a map that shows the continent as it really is: vast, powerful, and central to our world. #CorrectTheMap 💬 “It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” says AU Deputy Chairperson H.E. @DCP_Haddadi in an article with Reuters Led by @africanofilter and @SpeakUpAfrica1 , this campaign urges governments, schools, and international organisations to adopt maps that reflect Africa’s true scale and restore balance to how our world is viewed. 📖 Read the full story here:reuters.com/world/africa/a…

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

Judgment: Justice Chacha Mwita has allowed @katibainstitute's petition, which challenged the constitutionality of public notices issued by the Communications Authority and Kenya Revenue Authority requiring people to disclose their mobile phone's IMEI numbers. The court found that: 1. The notices were not based on any law, and are therefore unconstitutional. 2. The requirement to submit IMEI numbers violated articles 24 and 31 of the Constitution, infringing on the right to privacy. 3. The collection of IMEI numbers enabled unchecked state surveillance, making it unconstitutional. The judge has issued the following reliefs: 1. An order quashing the notices. 2. An order prohibiting the state from implementing or acting on those notices. See petition - katibainstitute.org/wp-content/upl… @joshuamalidzo @NoraMbagathi

Gabon President Brice Nguema return from America wearing Trump's campaign cap "Make America Great" forgetting his own country ,What is wrong with these colonial clerks?

a) As a Zambian, i pay $20 visa to enter DRC. A citizen of Belgium pays nothing to enter DRC b) A DRC citizen pays $20 to enter Zambia. A British citizen pays nothing to enter Zambia We are African neighbours charging each other into our lands, we let Europeans come in freely !

Dialogue led by the same greedy, tribal & useless Kenyan politicians is not the solution. Facilitate a constitutional conference for the young generation & let them come up with a new constitutional order that will be the basis of how they will be governed. Old tricks won't work!