Brian Gitonga

@realKwameOffei Drapetomania is the name

@AaronBastani Born to close Hormuz, forced to park the bus.

We all need to read and keep reading. Especially history, sociology, philosophy with focus on political philosophy, and liberation literature/poetry. Because it's very obvious some of us do not read but want to argue here all day when we don't even have a grasp of the basics

@AIRTEL_KE network coverage around Rimpa has been very poor for the last three weeks. Especially voice and data. What could be wrong?

Bro killed everyone's motivation 😂

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You don’t have to be everyone’s butterfly. Be a bee. Mind your business, make your honey, and sting people when necessary.

My dear brother, Mau Mau fought against land alienation, police violence and lack of sovereignty. They were not alone. The trade unionists, Dini ya Msambwa and Barsirian arap Manyei were also in colonial detention at the same time. What made the status of the Mau Mau different is that the British decided to also engage in collective punishment of the Kikuyu Embu and Meru and pretend that the struggle was ethnic, not political. So few Kenyans know that the Maasai, the Kamba and the Luhya participated in the Mau Mau. Chief Mukudi of Samia was detained by the British for administering the Mau Mau oath. I saw ES Atieno Odhiambo mention some Luo soldiers in the Nairobi ranks of the Mau Mau but I lost the reference. I'll keep looking for it. Independence isn't liberation. It's the management of the colonialist state by Africans. The whites were not chased out. They are still here. They still own land, plantations, mines and major installations. They gave us CBC. They just got a military agreement in Mombasa which exempts soldiers from prosecution. Wazungu didn't leave. They retreated from visibility, but not from power. Until the late 1950s, the British had no intention of leaving. In their dream, Kenya was to be a multi-racial state. Shortly after, they aimed to leave in 1975. Then after, they decided to leave in 1963, but before they did that, they needed to ensure that Kenya was left in the hands of the sympathizers, your Lancaster people and the #IwenttoAlliance's. Whites remained in the independence government, protected by Sir Charles Njonjo of Kabeteshire. Bruce Mackenzie was Ministry of Agriculture. Humphrey Slade the Parliament speaker. Goeffrey Griffin, a former information officer, started Starehe. Carey Francis moved to Pangani High School. In 1972, UoN students were violently suppressed by the police after complaining about the architecture department being staffed by wazungu faculty who were failing the students. Guess who was in charge of Nairobi Provincial Police? James Myles Oswald, who had killed many Mau Mau fighters. The decision of the British to hand over the state to Africans was forced by the African resistance, of which Mau Mau was a major player. The British realized that it would be too expensive to keep suppressing rebellion, especially because the Mau Mau started to regroup in 1961. Plus the whole pan-African world's imagination was captured by the resistance. It was cheaper for the British to have African elites, your favorite Lancaster guys, rather than settlers, in charge. But overall, the British remained in charge from London. Forcing the British to hand over the colonial state doesn't mean we were liberated. It just means we got black settlers in charge of the state, instead of white ones. Reading helps even the best and the brightest.

The Cost of Neglect: Family, Priorities, and the Loneliness of Old Age A video features a doctor running a cardiac clinic recounting the story of a 75-year-old woman who broke down in tears after receiving test results confirming a chronic illness that may require referral for possible surgery. She was not crying because of the medical prognosis itself. She wept because no one in her family had made time to accompany her to the clinic for her consultations. In stark contrast, another patient had her children and extended kin fully involved - handling paperwork, payments, and all necessary support. We now stand at a familiar crossroads where the choices we make as partners, parents, siblings, and friends collide with harsh reality. In our younger, productive years, life’s priorities are often dictated by external forces. Many never spend meaningful weekends with their children, instead pouring time and resources into church activities, chama (investment groups), expensive hobbies like golf, or chasing career fulfillment and business goals. Without striking a healthy balance, all of it ultimately proves null and void. From a broader perspective, this personal neglect is also the culmination of years of voter apathy and political indifference. Mainstream media influence, religious institutions, and widespread political illiteracy have repeatedly led people - particularly women, who are often at the forefront of elections - to support the same looters of public funds, including health sector resources. We witnessed “Mama Mboga” being mobilized to vote for Ruto while dancing to “Tugokira Tene,” and women electing Sakaja Johnson largely because of his dimples, among other examples. This chronic pattern carries a heavy cost, and sympathy for such outcomes is increasingly scarce. Here are practical tips for those who wish to avoid this trap of isolation in later life: Never miss your partner’s, children’s, relatives and close friends milestone moments - birthdays, school functions, and other key events. On Sundays, limit church activities to no more than one hour. Because the rat race dominates the first five days of the week, Saturday and Sunday represent your only real window for balance. You cannot repeat the same activity across both weekend days. For instance: • You cannot leave your family to play golf two days in a row - that is a recipe for disaster. • You cannot devote the entire weekend to church activities and still expect your family to sacrifice their time for you in the future. • You cannot watch EPL matches with the boys both days and assume your wife and children will happily celebrate your absence. • You cannot attend chama events with different groups of friends every weekend and expect them to be there for you in old age. Choose wisely. Spread your commitments out. Attend to everything within a balanced program. Review your schedule and prioritize those most likely to show up for you in times of uncertainty - then work backwards from there. You cannot hide behind Bible verses like Ephesians while having lived a life of indifference and unavailability - always “busy,” constantly out of town, never truly fellowshipping with friends and family - yet expecting them to drop everything when you need care. That era is long gone. How to Prioritize Your Time: 1. Your partner comes first. Forget what feminists or red-pill radicalists claim - they will not be the ones taking you to the hospital when you are sick. 2. Your children come second. Dedicate one full day (either Saturday or Sunday) entirely to them. 3. Circle of close friends - Monthly meetups, occasional drinks, or chama activities, kept within a time-restricted structure. 4. Community obligations - Weddings, ruracios, maombolezi, funerals, etc. 5. Hobbies - EPL, golf, road trips, and similar pursuits. 6. Church - Placed last in the hierarchy of regular commitments.

Thirty minutes before The D.O.C. lost his voice, the police let him go. He had been pulled over drunk in Beverly Hills. The officers saw NWA's gold records in his backseat, took pictures with him and sent him home. Half an hour later he fell asleep at the wheel on the Ventura Freeway, crashed face-first into a tree and was thrown through his rear window. He spent 21 hours in surgery. When he woke up, he couldn't speak. His debut album No One Can Do It Better had just sold over a million copies. He was 21 years old. Dr. Dre came to the hospital and told him the hard truth. "Don't rap." So instead he wrote. He ghost-wrote Straight Outta Compton, Eazy-Duz-It, The Chronic, Nuthin But a G Thang. He convinced Dr. Dre to go solo when Dre himself didn't believe in it. He co-founded Death Row Records. He mentored Snoop Dogg on songwriting when Snoop only knew how to freestyle. The biggest albums in West Coast hip hop history have his fingerprints all over them. His name is on almost none of them. He said it himself years later. "Had I kept my voice, I might not be here today." --- 📌 Sources: Rolling Stone · Complex · Wikipedia · Ambrosia for Heads · Vice

Some people have been misled into believing that money is the highest form of success and the true source of happiness. Slowly, money replaces what should have been family. Then old age arrives, and many return home to empty houses, expensive wine in hand, sleeping beside pets because the people they sacrificed for no longer feel emotionally connected to them. Children rarely “just go wrong.” There is almost always a moment where things began to fall apart. A point where emotional absence quietly planted a seed. A child needs your presence more than your provision, especially in their early years. But many parents abandon presence in the pursuit of success. When the child asks for time, they are sent money. When they crave affection, they receive gifts. A PlayStation, a bicycle, expensive schools, or new clothes. And the parent convinces themselves that these things can substitute love. But children are always watching. They study behavior more than words. They learn what love looks like through experience. And eventually, they become. So when the parent grows old and begins longing for companionship, the child responds the same way they were taught. The parent asks for presence and receives M-Pesa notification. They ask for emotional closeness and are given a caretaker, a house manager, or a dog to fill the silence. At that point, the parent is left alone with questions. Painful questions. Questions that often arrive too late in life to fully answer. Because the boy has become the father. And in many cases, this becomes the fate of fathers more than mothers. Society raises men to believe that providing financially is the highest expression of love. So fathers sacrifice time, affection, softness, and emotional connection while chasing provision in harsh economic conditions. Meanwhile, mothers often spend more time with the children, creating emotional memories that survive into old age. That is why many mothers are loved deeply when they grow old, while fathers sometimes struggle to receive the same emotional energy. Not because fathers never loved, but because many only knew how to express love through sacrifice and money. Even in discipline, many parents unknowingly create distance. Take school fees for example. A parent gives an underage child large amounts of school fees and expects perfect financial responsibility from someone who is still mentally developing. The child loses the money, spends it, or mismanages it. Then the home explodes with rage. Yes, the child is wrong. But parents must also examine their role in the situation. Pay school fees directly to the school where possible. Even in co-parenting arrangements, pay the school fees directly to the school. Handle the responsibilities directly instead of placing burdens on children or using money as a weapon of conflict. I have seen children given school fees while having no pocket money, no emotional support, no guidance, and no understanding. Then people act shocked when peer pressure, frustration, shame, or youthful foolishness leads them into bad decisions. Children are young. Sometimes naive. Sometimes reckless. And sometimes just foolish. But that is part of growing up. You can be angry, yes. But anger without understanding often destroys relationships faster than the original mistake ever could. What usually follows is tragic. The parent unleashes wrath as punishment. The child walks away carrying resentment as punishment. And the issue never truly ends there. The child is constantly reminded of the mistake until home no longer feels like home. The reminders become emotional wounds. Eventually, when the child finally gets the ability to leave, they do. Not always because they hate their parents, but because distance becomes the only way they know how to breathe. Many parents think children drift away suddenly. But most of the time, the drifting started years earlier in small moments that looked insignificant at the time.

This guy used AI to put himself in Game of Thrones and fix everything

The Kenyan voter is often emotional during campaigns and logical after elections.

Living a straight life and being principled in this country is very expensive. You will be denied opportunities because you refuse to compromise your values. You will watch less qualified people rise simply because they were willing to kneel where you chose to stand. You will be called difficult for refusing shortcuts, arrogant for refusing manipulation, and naïve for believing honesty should still matter. In a system where corruption has become the culture, integrity starts to look like rebellion. You will lose deals because you refused to bribe someone. Lose connections because you refused to worship power. Lose friendships because you refused to laugh at evil just to fit in. You will sit in rooms where people treat morality like a weakness and conscience like a disability. The painful part is that sometimes doing the right thing does not even reward you immediately. Sometimes it isolates you. Sometimes it humiliates you publicly, while those who do wrong seem to move ahead effortlessly. There are people surviving on lies, building careers on betrayal, growing wealth through exploitation, and gaining influence through manipulation. Then there is you, trying to sleep peacefully at night while carrying the burden of principles in a society that often rewards performance more than character. That kind of life is emotionally exhausting. Because being principled means constantly fighting battles nobody sees. You fight the temptation to become like the people succeeding through corruption. You fight the pressure to normalize wrong because “everyone is doing it.” You fight loneliness because standing on values often means standing alone. And sometimes the biggest punishment for having morals is watching immoral people thrive without shame. But even then, there is something powerful about remaining clean in a dirty system. There is something dangerous about a person who cannot be bought, intimidated, or corrupted. Because principles may delay your success, but they protect your soul from becoming unrecognizable to yourself. A lot of people are rich but cannot sit alone with their conscience. A lot of people are connected but spiritually empty. A lot of people are celebrated publicly but haunted privately by the things they had to sacrifice to get there. Not every loss is a failure. Sometimes losing opportunities is the price of refusing to sell yourself. Sometimes struggling financially is the cost of refusing blood money. Sometimes isolation is what happens when you stop entertaining environments that require you to betray your humanity just to belong. And despite how painful it is, there is still dignity in being able to look at your own reflection without disgust. Because in the end, a person can survive poverty, delays, rejection, and struggle. What destroys many people is becoming successful at the cost of losing themselves completely.

17 years ago Kaká casually defied the laws of physics, juggling two balls at the same time. A clip that would be labeled ‘Ai’ in today’s football world. Mind blowing!!🤯

Being a man is so hard. Someone will buy you a boxer and tell the whole world.

CURRENCIES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ballerslad @FabrizioRomano Wait is there a table in the training ground?

@FabrizioRomano Accidentally hit your head on a table