Kenya's Finest

My hot take: you are much better off studying in Nairobi for undergrad if you aren't applying to a Russell Group. Idk, I think you'd rather study at Strath than go to Coventry 😭😭

BREAKING: ITV News reports that weapons have been smuggled into Western Iran since last year to arm thousands of Kurdish volunteers. They’re allegedly planning to start a ground operation within days and have asked the U.S. and Israel for air cover.

RUTO WAS SET UP — And He Walked Straight Into It This may sound like a riddle, but hear me out. Uhuru Kenyatta knew exactly who William Ruto was. He knew Ruto would struggle to deliver real structural change. He knew Ruto preferred optics, rebranding, and politics over continuity and systems. So Uhuru did what strategic leaders sometimes do: he borrowed, planned, and started projects that were too big, too interconnected, and too strategic to be ignored. The idea was simple: whoever comes next will be forced to finish them. But Ruto didn’t read the room. Instead of consolidating and completing what he inherited, he tried to dismantle it — cancel contracts, rename projects, fire teams that carried institutional memory, and restart things under new branding. That decision alone cost the country billions in penalties, delays, and lost momentum. You don’t remove an experienced driver from a moving bus and hand the wheel to a rookie without crashing somewhere along the road. Take roads, ports, rail, housing, education — these projects were designed to work together. Ruto quickly realised something uncomfortable: he couldn’t launch his own “vision projects” unless he first finished Uhuru’s. And that’s when panic set in. Money was already locked into ongoing projects. There was little room to siphon, reset, or repackage. So the temptation shifted — sell assets, restructure debt, mortgage the future — just to create breathing room. But even that wasn’t enough. You can’t sell the country fast enough to escape unfinished infrastructure. Look at CBC. Instead of using classrooms already built in secondary schools, the government went back to the drawing board, wasting time and money constructing new ones — money that could have gone to hiring real teachers, retraining young graduates, and integrating technology properly. The tragedy is that CBC didn’t fail because it’s useless. It failed because it was mismanaged, politicised, and restarted instead of completed. Ruto wasn’t trapped by Uhuru. He was trapped by his own refusal to continue. Now the system is boiling — and he’s sitting inside it, realising too late that you can’t break a country apart and rebuild it at the same time. Sometimes the smartest move isn’t to fight what you inherited — it’s to finish it, then quietly change direction. That moment was missed. And now, we’re all paying for it. Written By John Kimani.

Good god how do Brazilian teams have this kind of money?

Brahim I hate it had to be you😭😭😭

Brahim I hate it had to be you😭😭😭

My girlfriend? Yoh 😮‍💨🔥

KENYA’S WEALTH CONCENTRATION IS NOW AMONG THE WORST ON EARTH
OXFAM, 26 NOV 2025: • 125 individuals control more private financial wealth than the bottom 43 million Kenyans combined. • The richest 1% own 78% of all financial wealth in the country. • Extreme poverty has risen by 7 million people since 2015. This is not normal inequality. This is engineered extraction. The super-rich in Kenya are not creating globally competitive companies that lift the nation - they are using political power, monopolies, land grabs, and rigged tenders to block everyone else from rising. Their wealth grows not because they outperform the world, but because they outlaw competition at home. To survive and eventually break this system, the middle class and working people must become deliberate and disciplined. Here are eight practical, high-impact moves you can start today: 1. RECLAIM EDUCATION 
Public schools were intentionally destroyed to create a captive market for overpriced private academies. Pool resources with neighbours to renovate local public schools, demand transparency on CDF and county education budgets, or shift to homeschooling/co-op models if you can. 2. STARVE PRIVATE HEALTHCARE CARTELS
 Stay healthy on purpose: cook real food, move daily, sleep well, and use free AI diagnostics (e.g., symptom checkers, open-source health apps). Every shilling you don’t hand to private hospitals and chain pharmacies weakens their grip. 3. BUY DIRECT FROM FARMERS 
Bypass supermarket chains and mall-based restaurants that crushed small traders. Join or form WhatsApp/groups/co-ops that buy maize, milk, vegetables, and meat straight from rural producers. Cut out the middlemen who fund the elite. 4. GROW, FORAGE, BARTER, RECONNECT WITH THE VILLAGE 
Balconies, backyards, rooftops - grow something. Exchange goods and services within trusted circles. Keep money and nutrients flowing between town and rural homes instead of leaking to corporate supply chains. 5. BREAK THE CORPORATE MEDIA SPELL 
Switch off mainstream TV and radio that normalise oppression. Stop following lifestyle influencers paid to sell you debt and consumerism. Actively support and finance independent journalists, researchers, and community organisers who name names and expose networks. 6. PROTECT AND WEAPONISE HOUSEHOLD INCOME 
In dual-income homes, treat corporate-sponsored gender wars and divorce culture as the sabotage they are. Combine incomes, invest together (land, rental units, small businesses), and build wealth that outlives any one job or bank. 7. REFUSE THEIR DEBT TRAPS 
Avoid bank loans, stock-market gambling, shylock “soft loans,” and corporate bonds dressed as investments. Live below your means, save aggressively in cash or assets you control, and scale businesses or skills through bootstrapping and community funding circles (chamas done right). 8. KNOW THE FAMILIES, BOYCOTT THEIR EMPIRES 
Study how the same dynasties (Kenyatta, Moi/Biwott, Ndegwa, Kanyotu/Gethi/Saini/Devki, etc.) and their proxies accumulated obscene wealth through land grabs, golden handshakes, and state capture. Identify every bank, supermarket chain, media house, brewery, dairy, or real-estate company they still control or have shares in - and quietly redirect your money elsewhere. This is not about envy. It’s about survival and eventual liberation. 
Every shilling you keep out of their ecosystems is a brick in the wall of your own freedom. Start with one of these eight this week.
Which one will it be?