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Breakfast with the Minister Hon. Nick Champion. This morning we delved into the future of South Australia with Hon. Nick Champion, Minister for Housing, Infrastructure, and Planning. From affordable housing to sustainable urban design, the conversation was enlightening.

@ali_naka Kenyan lawyers will get Malema out of this in a blink. @omariadv @ombetac

This is HOW you confront RACISM 🔥

@ehdande So sad to learn this. Returning home or staying is always a two fold race between building dreams and rebuilding identity. Irene chose bravery. May she rest in power.

Random View… Irene Ndibo’s story, a US educated Wallstreet banker, should be a serious cautionary tale to highly successful diaspora considering returning home to “build the nation” entrepreneurially… …just don’t leave everything and return, but if you must be very careful, it could be a mistake that you cannot recover from and that’s what hit Irene. 1. Business and career is primarily networks and connections; yes talent and capabilities matter but it’s very secondary. 2. There is another layer where locally educated and careered roadrunners scoff at your foreign degrees and experience. You will hear a lot of “this is not US. This is not NY” 3. You will sometimes find yourself in rooms debating with powerful yet functional illiterates in matters you have studied and practiced in the best markets on earth as Irene had studied and practiced at Goldman Sachs. In these moments the phrase “third world” comes vividly alive. 4. A point comes where returnees social, career connections and immigration status abroad has expired, yet things in Kenya are just not working at all - there and then the steady descent begins 5. Deep regrets begin to set in for having signed on to Project Kenya; worse, as one descends they are also watching corrupt incompetents soar as they steadily descend. 6. From Manhattan apartments, taking subways to work with a Starbucks in hand, six figure salaries, you start asking for financial help. People assist but then predictably compassion fatigue sets in and you are left alone. 6. Challenges and stress evolve into mental illness, which itself has limited interventions in Kenya, highly stigmatized and highly unaffordable. Chances of pulling back from here is very very low. 7. Family, friends alumni, and loved ones have their own issues, you are left alone never to be heard of. My Point Is: Returning is for either the connected few or for the hard-headed few, if you are not just stay in New York or wherever, please. This is not Singapore where Lee Kwan Yew searched for its best and brightest in universities and cities around the world to go back and build Singapore. A sad story, may she RIP.

@TruthFairy131 I love Australia 🇦🇺

We are the last generation that remember REAL AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺

#RutoMustGo where ? Suck it up and go back to work!

@Asswetooo But he’s a hero

@MPeterlewis Noooooo

Where is Mr Speaker Sir, never forget #RutoMustGo

@theminamano @WilliamsRuto Weh! 😂 Ati please

.@WilliamsRuto jiue pls

20% of your life should be deliberately experimental — not reckless, not chaotic. Intentionally randomised. Create conditions where luck has a chance to find you. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb~

Down to earth. Beyond borders. Merry Christmas.

@ellymelly Australia has no place for terror. God bless Australia 🇦🇺

A photo that speaks to the state of Australian politics. One Senator wrapped in the Australian flag. Another, in the cloth of a foreign state.

What was witnessed in Bondi Beach was radical islamism. Terror has no place in Australia. We pray for Bondi & God bless Australia 🇦🇺.

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Urban Planning

A tired nation! #RutoMustGo #SiriNiNumbers

I agree

@DrEliDavid I agree

The Islamic Republic 🇮🇷 deliberately targeted one of Israel’s largest hospitals. Now imagine this regime with nuclear weapons... The world owes Israel deep gratitude for taking the risks to eliminate this threat.

@JulPearls @cathy_mutuku Yes it does

Weeeeh nguvu inaishia , they have taken control of the family

@AlinurMohamed_ Umaskini ni kitu mbaya sana Aki

Thanking Kasongo for what exactly?

@ChurchilOmondih Very ready for Tuesday!

The little Ian was ahead of the time. Tuesday is Tuesday.