Hassan Diriye

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is gone, but his fight lives on. He championed African languages, yet we still mock each other over English—as if fluency in a colonial tongue equals intellect. Did he fight a losing battle, or are we failing to carry his torch? #NgugiWaThiongo #RIP

@KeenNomad Even none!

Just finished a tafsir series of Surah Ar-Rahman with Nouman Ali Khan that I had begun during ramadhan. Few Somali sheikhs will ever be able to dissect it at a deeper level and relate it to current realities.

BREAKING: Iran warns it will target US and Israel‑linked energy and IT infrastructure, along with desalination plants in the region if its power plants are hit, following Trump’s threat to strike Iranian plants over the Strait of Hormuz. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x3n3wk

The United States has spent $174 billion over 4 years on the war in Ukraine, which Trump and his base strongly opposed. Trump is now asking Congress for $200bn (!!!) to fund the war with Iran, which Trump officials admit was started for Israel. Let that sink in.

Netanyahu is the extremist who killed 75,000 in Gaza. The extremist who said invading Iraq would create "enormous positive reverberations." The extremist who has pushed U.S. presidents to go to war with Iran for decades. Finally, he found a President who said yes. Tragic.

This Trump–Netanyahu war is unconstitutional and violates international law. It endangers the lives of U.S. troops and people across the region. We’ve lived through the lies of Vietnam and Iraq. No more endless wars. Congress must pass a War Powers Resolution immediately.

@elonmusk It is clear which the weak sauce are - Gemini and Claude. The only AI (here) that is courageous, honest, outrightly objective, and factual when asked if America is on stolen land is also clear; and it is not Grok 4.20

Grok 4.20 is BASED. The only AI that doesn’t equivocate when asked if America is on stolen land. The others are weak sauce.

Trump said today: "MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too." If your toddler spoke to you like this, you'd be concerned. Most powerful man in the world, ladies and gents. Still hard to believe, I know.

Musk has clearly sensed an opportunity in recent months to stop pretending and embrace full on the white supremacy of his South African childhood.

Why would corporations like Amazon replace workers with robots? Pretty simple. Robots don’t need a wage, health care, time off, sick leave, Social Security, Medicare or unemployment benefits. Maybe it’s time to tax robots & use the revenue generated to help working families.

@ArtemisConsort I didn't understand why @elonmusk retweeted this because he doesn't really align here, but then I remembered that 'retweeting didn't mean endorsement'

We could achieve so much. Potential beauty is limitless. When I see people arguing from a zero-sum mindset I want to shake them and show them the future I see. We are just at the beginning. We will always be just at the beginning. Let go of envy and we’ll carry you there.

@elonmusk Fir'aun + Qaaruun. And we know their end!

If you combine Donald Trump and Elon Musk, you get … 😂

Tune In! NETFUND CEO Samson Toniok will be live on KBC’s Good Morning Kenya this Wednesday, 5th November at 8:00 a.m. He’ll be discussing Resource Mobilization and Climate Financing in Kenya, key drivers in accelerating sustainable development and environmental resilience. Don’t miss this insightful conversation on how climate financing can power Kenya’s green growth journey! #NETFUND #GoodMorningKenya #KBC #ClimateFinancing #ResourceMobilisation #Sustainability #GreenGrowth #ClimateAction #Kenya

@darshal_ Ai

Decades of public discourse has glorified white-collar careers hard-wiring society to view blue-collar careers with serious contempt. Result? Graduates with no jobs, and jobs with no skilled youth to fill them. One of the greatest paradoxes of our time! #Skills #BlueCollar

To those claiming they're for free speech while punishing and silencing those for exercising that right: You're not pro-free speech. 🤔

My new book will be out in October 2025. It lists over 2500 species/scientific names, over 5700 vernacular names, and a brief biographical sketches of the plant collectors starting from the beginning of the 20th century.

The idea that American democracy is unshakably stable no longer holds. For years, there was a widespread belief that even in times of deep division, U.S. politics would remain contentious but nonviolent. That belief is now dead. #CharlieKirkshot

This is the unraveling of the post-9/11, post-Obama, post-truth American empire model. That model was built on two pillars: 1. Narrative management as power projection 2. Selective moral framing as a tool of legitimacy Obama wasn’t the architect but he was the perfect avatar. Polished, post-racial, technocratic, rhetorically gifted. He represented a vision of America that was progressive on the surface, imperial underneath. His presidency ran drone strikes under Nobel Peace Prize optics. It ran psyops under the banner of hope. And when Trump emerged as a reaction to that aesthetic, the system used every lever to smother it - including the intelligence apparatus. Russiagate was never about Russia. It was about narrative control. The intelligence community and legacy media fused into one machine - to delegitimize the rupture Trump represented. Whether or not the allegations were true was never the point. The goal was to anchor a new reality, one where populist disruption could be neutralized through belief manipulation. That system failed. And it never atoned. No accountability. No confession. No reckoning. Now, Obama speaks about Gaza and the people explode. Not because of Gaza. But because he never answered for the ghost of the lie. The rage is structural. It’s about memory. It’s about betrayal. It’s about a population that knows deep down it was played, and still sees the puppeteers speaking calmly on a global stage. They don’t want an apology. They want collapse. They want the system that gaslit them, mocked them, and locked them out of the narrative to fall…hard.

@AmitSegal Nothing like an ally. To the US, what we call Arab states are just some gas stations managed by little station managers.

Israel says the strike on Hamas leadership in Doha was coordinated in advance with the US.

Beautiful Nairobi sunset this evening as observed from my office in Westlands.