Toni Kamau

A business can survive competition. It can even survive slow sales. But it cannot survive unpredictable taxes, rising fuel and collapsing purchasing power forever.

Oh Ann💔💔 You left You quit the job You really tried your best💔💔😭😭 My heart aches for you 😭💔

Sol Stein: "Characters make your story. If the people come alive, what they do becomes the story." #writing

Please don’t tell me Black filmmakers aren’t making interesting work when “Is God Is” is in theaters this weekend and “Clarissa” is at Cannes and getting great reviews. The work is there if you seek it!

Self help books are one of the tools of modern Imperialism. These books reduce "wealth" and "success" into an individual struggle rather than a direct result of systemic plunder, historical exploitation, and the concentrated hoarding of global resources. They tell you that your poverty is a character flaw. They suggest that the reason you cannot afford a home or a dignified life is because you haven't mastered your "internal state" while conveniently ignoring the fact that the "external state" is busy auctioning off your future to the highest corporate bidder. Rather than give examples of situations where the people came together to form cultural groups under a socialist ideology, wrote manifestoes, built underground networks of resistance, and finally uprooted their oppressive system that kept them under the boot of foreign monopolies, these satanic books instead reduce a revolutionary problem into a personal struggle. Instead of uniting to fight for better wages these books manage to convince their victims to "smile" at bosses and "win friends" for "promotion." Instead of uniting together and holding a siege on these colonial institutions that give the rich and mega corporations unlimited access to your lands and resources, these books have managed to convince their victims that all they need is a better "morning routine." Instead of demanding the nationalization of your country's minerals, they tell you to "manifest" abundance. Instead of burning down the predatory banks that have shackled your nation in debt, they tell you to practice "mindfulness" to cope with the stress of being broke. Instead of recognizing that your exhaustion is a logical response to a parasitic economic system, they tell you that you simply lack "courage and determination". The truth of the matter is that there is no amount of "Atomic Habits" you develop that would free you from the pangs of state sponsored Imperialism. If you like continue to follow the 4AM rule for mental clarity, jog every morning and smile sheepishly at everyone you meet because you want to win friends and influence people, you will still be a victim of a system that sees you as nothing more than a data point. All of these are empty and meaningless habits. The best that you can hope for is to become a well behaved and disciplined corporate slave that would eventually be laid off once they complete building their data centers and finally automate your position. You are being trained to be a more efficient battery for a machine that intends to discard you. We need to understand that the real world is more brutal than advertised in these books. You cannot build any "tech empire" when you are under an imperial occupation or a debt-trap. These billionaires they have carefully sanitized as revolutionaries who took risks, dropped out of college and started a billion dollar empire in their "garages" are all lies designed to make you think the playing field is level. They did not start in garages; they started with emerald mine shares, government-subsidized military technology, and massive safety nets of inherited colonial wealth. To even build a company like Google today, you need a funding pool of world conquest proportion. This is because you need to cover corporate fees to hire a battalion of corporate lawyers to circumvent labor laws and crush local competition, you need to buy off regulators and trade unions to allow you to build poisonous data centers and masts that allow you to stay profitable while the local population suffers, you need to lobby for tax exemptions that drain the public health system of its funding, and you need to pay for the private security forces that ensure your supply chains in the Global South remain uninterrupted by the "un-optimized" locals. Instead of self-help books, read Philosophy and books focused on Political Theory, Materialist History, and the mechanics of power. Read the works of those who dismantled empires rather than those who teach you how to serve them better. To develop your mind and equip you mentally to challenge the colonial institutions that have turned your life into a commodity is the only real "growth" that matters. Stop trying to "fix" yourself for a broken system and start learning how to break the system that is fixing you in place.

I'll never forget when I watched that child trafficking documentary by BBC Eye the homeless woman was crying and saying wamrudishie mtoto ata kama she'shomeless. We are so devoid of basic morals, it is so dystopian. Because the children are turning up dead. A life lost💔💔💔

If 1 million Kenyans work at Bomas, they would require 71,500 14 seater matatus to get to work. Assuming they all came from town, and they paid fare of 100, that 100 million shillings is injected into the economy every morning and another every evening. In short, what you have said here is upus on stilts.

If you want to actually change someone’s mind, you have to care about the conditions under which minds change. Minds rarely change under humiliation. They rarely change while cornered. They rarely change while being publicly defeated. They rarely change when the change requires immediate exile from their people. People need bridges.

Movie reviewer here. For 30 years, I have adhered to an extraordinarily controversial take on casting decisions. A. I see the film. B. I share my opinion on whether or not the casting was effective. I know. Crazy.

ironically, Orson Welles gave one of the best criticisms against easy to generate ai slop

"London Stadium costed Ksh. 30 Billion less than Talanta Stadium, we cannot allow Ruto to go to Sugoi; he must be jailed." ~ Methu

Or Ben Kingsley playing Mahatma Gandhi. Or John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Or Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Richard Burton as Othello. Or Alec Guinness in “Lawrence of Arabia.” Or David Carradine in Kung Fu. Et cetera. Lighten up.

A woman is murdered and this is the framing. Okay.

Javier Bardem speaks out in #Cannes on toxic masculinity: "That problem also goes to Trump, Putin and Netanyahu... the big balls man saying 'my cock is bigger than yours and I'm going to bomb the shit out of you' is a f*cking male toxic behavior that is creating thousands of dead people." variety.com/2026/film/fest…

Notably, Barack Obama is a real person and Helen of Troy isn’t

Ann Coulter, You are ignorant as fuck. Not sure if it’s from skipping ancient Greece in school or just being a moron. Either way, here’s what we know: Homer and Euripides weren’t “writing myths about African gods”. They weren’t writing myths at all. Those myths already existed for centuries. Homer turned them into epic poetry. Euripides turned them into tragedies. You clearly know fuck all about ancient Greeks. They drenched in praise black and brown people. Homer calls black Africans the “blameless Ethiopians” aka the most pious humans alive. “Blameless” was a praise awarded only to heroes. So holy that Zeus and the entire Olympian crew ditch the Trojan War for 12 straight to feast with them. Herodotus says they’re the tallest, most handsome, longest-lived people on earth. The Greeks worshipped Egypt as the cradle of civilization. Herodotus called Egyptians the oldest people alive and gushed over their wisdom, geometry, medicine, and temples. Plato sent his smartest characters there to study. Greek myths are packed with black kings and queens: Zeus fathers Epaphus, king of Egypt. Memnon, Ethiopian king, rolls up to Troy as a legendary warrior Achilles has to fight. Andromeda, an Ethiopian princess, marries into Greek royalty. They straight-up admired brown Levantines too. Phoenicians gave them the alphabet. Cadmus (a Phoenician prince) founded Thebes in Greece. Meanwhile? Aristotle roasts your Northern European ancestors as “full of spirit but wanting in intelligence and skill” aka brave but stupid. Brown peoples? He calls them “intelligent and inventive” but lacking bravery. The classics were never some pure white European fanfic. The ancient Greeks respected and borrowed from Africans and Easterners while calling your barbarian bloodline uncivilized savages. It’s embarrassing yourself.

A slave's attempt to flee slavery was once considered a mental illness.

Helen of Troy is a fictional character. Her father is Zeus, a fictional character, who was in the form of a swan when he impregnated her mother, who then laid an egg, which Helen hatched from. Helen of Troy is not white - she never existed.

“The poor and middle pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers – and the ultra-rich pay politicians.” George Monbiot

Global powers do not care about democracy in Africa. They care about influence, minerals and strategic control.