Matemo

"If we do not lead when it comes to writing and telling our own story, those that want to remain our teachers will write our history from their own perspective..."~ Chinovava

That we are losing our Country.

Quiet beauty of the countryside

Huyo jamaa ametoka backbench na shirt ya Maroon kusema Wandayi is lying and they've not agreed on anything is today's champion. Not all heroes wear capes !

There's no single good news that has come out of Kenya since that man became president. Every day is death, destruction, despair. This cannot be the life!!

Our strength lies in solidarity. No subsector should negotiate for itself while ignoring the collective demands that brought us together. Any agreement that fails to address the full set of issues we unanimously adopted cannot be accepted as a genuine resolution #RejectFuelPrices

Kuna clip ya boiz ameongea KTN. Amesema hata kasongo atuue wangapi there will always be many more to raise their voices. Hapo ndio amefikisha young Kenyans

Rainstorms do wait till morning Dark clouds hover full of might But hold their tears through the night Heard the taps on the window and waited for the coming rain There was a quiet hush, a waiting pause Then a storm unleashed outside the door Maybe the sky wants to weep some more

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o wrote 'Petals of Blood' in 1977 and somehow managed to write about Kenya in 2026. The novel is about four ordinary Kenyans who walk into the promise of independence and find themselves swallowed by a system that replaced the white coloniser with a black one. The faces changed. The exploitation did not. The land that was supposed to belong to the people ended up belonging to a new elite that had simply been waiting its turn at the table. Ngũgĩ called these people the black landlords. The ones who learned the language of liberation and used it to accumulate what liberation was supposed to distribute. Sound familiar. Kenya was promised the land. Kenya got the deed but not the title. The hustler was promised the economy. The economy got a new owner. The youth were promised the future. The future is currently in a broad based government, suits immaculate, silent about the things that matter. In Petals of Blood, the villagers walk miles to the city looking for justice and find only more sophisticated versions of the same oppression they left behind. Every door they knock on belongs to someone who was once like them and forgot. That walk has never ended. Kenyans are still walking. The city is still full of people who forgot where they came from the moment they arrived. Ngũgĩ was jailed for writing this. That alone tells you everything about how accurate it was. Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.

I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing will drive them away We can beat them, just for one day We can be heroes, just for one day -Heroes, Peter Gabriel

James Baldwin knew love

Huge fan of whoever named it, "Sufuria" aliona inakaa round kama sufuri and they just added an "a" and called it a day. Queen of not overthinking it. I want to be their friend.

When algebra teachers retire, how do they deal with the aftermath?

Artists: A great thing about the studio is that it can’t lie.

Artists are makers of things that have not yet been made. Their actions put color to thought. They make objects that are and are not themselves.

I used to think every dark thing needed saving. that love meant dragging it into the light. but some things were never made for daylight. some people carry chaos beautifully. lightning in their hands. storms in their chest. the kind of soul that makes you feel more alive at 2 a.m. than most people do in years. and they are not broken. not cruel. not wrong. just made from darker material. not every dark thing needs saving. some of it is already perfect. 7:

I said it before and I'll say it again, read banned books written by black authors, those pages carry real brutal hidden history of black people.

The book examines how colonial languages and education systems shape cultural identity, arguing that reclaiming African languages is central to intellectual and political liberation. Key facts Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Published: 1986 Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books Language: English Genre: Literary and cultural criticism.

Wajir does not lack water. Wajir lacks permission to use it. Permanent water = permanent settlement. Permanent settlement = stronger pastoralist political power. Stronger pastoralist power = resistance to mineral concessions, conservancy expansion, and LAPSSET land grabs.

"Aliskia wezi huchomwa na mafuta akapandisha bei"

Macron, cut the crap!!! Africa attracted 97 billion dollars in foreign direct investment last year alone according to UNCTAD, without a summit and without you. Your “23 billion euros”, spread over an unspecified number of years, are mostly private sector pledges the French state will take diplomatic credit for without financing. And of those 23 billion, 10.5 billion are from African businesses themselves. Since you want to talk about investment, here is the context you deliberately omitted. Your French companies have been extracting wealth on this continent for decades and make annual returns that dwarf these your 27 billion euros. TotalEnergies alone produces 28% of its global output from Africa. Orange operates across 18 African countries with over 120 million customers. Bolloré at its peak controlled 18 of West Africa's 22 major ports, with 80% of its profits derived from Africa. Orano has been mining uranium in Niger for decades at prices below OECD market rates, leaving behind 20 million tonnes of radioactive waste and uranium concentrations in local drinking water 500 times above safe thresholds. France's development loans from the Agence Française de Développement came with contractual conditions requiring freight to use Bolloré railways, insurance through AXA, and consulting through French firms. The money went from France to Africa and immediately circled back as corporate profit. Let's have a clear look at Africa's market size and economy. Telecommunications generates 180 billion dollars annually, mining oil and gas generations over 900 billion annually. Financial services, construction, manufacturing, tourism, retail and energy collectively add hundreds of billions more, bringing Africa's total nominal GDP to approximately 2.83 trillion dollars. And then there is the creative industry. Africa's creative economy generates between 6 and 10 billion dollars in directly measurable annual revenue today. This industry was built without a single French summit, without a single French pledge, and without your presence in Nairobi. The idea that 27 billion dollars over an unspecified period, of which 10.5 billion are Africa companies’ money you are announcing as an achievement, constitutes something worth celebrating tells us everything about how you see this continent. You genuinely believe we will applaud you for this. You really summoned 30 heads of states over some so called 27 billion euros “investment pledge” over multiple years. You see, that is the particular variety of condescension that caused your military to be expelled from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. And since we are being factual: the CFA franc, created on December 25, 1945, has required fourteen of our nations to deposit a portion of their foreign exchange reserves in the French Treasury for eighty years. Kindly return our reserves if you so care about our economic growth. Return the gold. Return the uranium profits extracted from Niger at below-market rates while leaving radioactive contamination in the water. Return the port revenues confiscated by Bollore. Return the decades of oil profits extracted by Total through preferential agreements with the corrupt leaders your government installed and continue to protect. When you have returned all of that, then come back with your 23 billion euros and we will discuss whether it qualifies as a contribution. Until then, please shut up !