A man is no one

136 years ago, the man who broke the spell was born. If Hồ Chí Minh could see today’s world, he would not be surprised. He knew that history bends toward balance, not empire. He would look at Vietnam's victory, still standing, still sovereign, still proof that the most powerful military on earth can be defeated by a people who refuse to disappear. He would look at China’s rise, at Russia's defiance, at Africa’s awakening, at Cuba's endurance, at Iran's resistance, and smile. Not because the struggle is over. But because the world is finally beginning to resemble the one he died believing in. A world where power no longer means domination. Where sovereignty is not a privilege but a birthright. He would say what he later gave Vietnam as an immortal truth: "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom." That spirit has outlived its borders. It lives wherever the Global South refuses to bow. Happy birthday, Uncle Hồ. The spell is broken. The prophecy holds.

@KinyanBoy Made sense until he said Kikuyu

Owidi exposes the double standards of politicians organizing matatu strikes to frustrate the govt of fuel hikes which is a global crisis. He says wantam is not a debt agenda but a community vendetta. He further says same crimes Ruto is accused of were done worse under Uhuru.

@ntvkenya I have met this guy in person some 15 years or so ago over a drink with friends, I had seen him on TV when he was KNHRC chair or something and I expected him to be intelligent and engaging... he was the exact opposite ... shallow, daft, self focused, very boring dull minded fella

Hassan Omar: We have gotten to that point in our lives where we must say enough is enough. Mnaharibu nchi throughout. What has Ruto done to you that is so bad? If you sincerely feel he is incapable of leadership, why don't you wait for 2027 and exercise your Constitutional right.

@kenyanpundit But this people are just garagarias like us, we expect our leaders to be polished? They are just us ... Just as clueless and shortsighted... sometimes I think western style democracies are too complex for the African mind ... we need a chieftain

What in the negotiation is this? 😅

@megbasham Our girl Lupita pretty but, in Kenya average pretty, she is just miscast ... and it's not even about race ... it's like the horrible Ving Rhames in Master Harold and the boys or Idris and Morgan Freeman as Mandela ... hopefully she'll pull it off and deliver something iconic

Oh my gosh to the dumb dudes posting an unflattering still shot of Lupita from 12 Years a Slave to supposedly prove she's not pretty. Stop it. She's obviously attractive (to my mind, she's very beautiful). That's not what this is about.

@_lennoxomondi That net and you are building some AI tech thing?

Niliquit 9-5 ilikuwa inanilipa 150k/month. Imenitake two years for my company kunilipa 67k/month na nafanya kazi from 7AM to 11PM every day, na sometimes unapata uko na employees wanakupea the hardest time ever, na kuwafuta kazi ni even more expensive. Every month uko na bills za kulipa in the millions, end month kila mtu ako happy isipokuwa wewe juu uko na another 30 days kuraise another million. Na imagine all this trouble ndiyo net salary yako ikuwe 50k Sometimes doh haitoshi unasema wacha ulipe the employees alafu KRA utawatumia yao by 9th, unajaribu kupata loan bank inakataa juu hauna shamba ya security, inafika 15th unapata weird calls, unashika unapata ni KRA, unawaambia utawalipa next Friday, wanakuambia Friday haiwezekani, labda Thursday. Inabidi uongee with one of your clients akulipe mapema, anakusomea akikuambia biz haifanywi hivo but anaitikia eventually. Next week inafika unalipa KRA, SHA,NSSF, Housing Levy. Unahave some peace kidogo only to realize that next week ni end month na this time uko na deficit kubwa kushinda last month, and the cycle continues. Kama uko 9-5 na uko sawa, I can’t advise you to quit. Heri ujaribu entrepreneurship in parallel but usiquit job yako. It feels good when you tell people that you quit your job to pursue your dream but you also need to understand that your dream will take time before it starts paying the bills, and it might also die before you eat a shilling from it.

@Webster_zealot @_sir_brandon_ @Web3flux Head of commercial EABL ama BAT ama Safcom

@_sir_brandon_ @Web3flux And senior BD & Commercial guys in the same sector.

Kuna Life 9-5 will never give you hata uchape kazi miaka ngapi. Utakua unaonea Social Media na kwa TV ukisema watu wanaosha pesa huku nje but in real sense watu wanajituma. Be ambitious enough to also live a life that hata ukifika 40 na udedi atleast you lived a life.

Very useless

Westie vipanda ziko Empty mpaka wazungu wamepata space #rejectfuelprices #wantam #osubuko

@JodyChaseTN Because Husbands and wives mix up details all the time

🚨 ANOTHER VERIFIED ERIKA KIRK LIE 🚨 Zach Costello pointed out that Erika Kirk claimed Charlie’s book "Stop, in the Name of God" was completed in June or July. But Charlie said on August 6th and August 10th 2025 that he was still working on it. So why did she lie?

Nairobi, final reflections. Despite Nairobi being a haven of NGO work, impact funds, climate workshops and every species of grant funded virtue, one hears far less of the heavy socialist sermonising that so often drifts through Southern Africa. Why is that? I didn’t find a Karl Marx road as we did in Maputo…. Perhaps Kenya’s commercial bloodstream is simply too strong. Nairobi may host the NGO cathedral, but outside its stained glass windows the city is hustling: traders, founders, developers, agents, boda boda, financiers, exporters, coders and small businessmen all trying to make a shilling before the next traffic jam. The traffic jams here in the middle of high traffic and rain are extortion writ large. But the uber driver earning thrice the fee wasn’t complaining. Nor should we, but the wait time at a restaurant can stretch up to two hours, with the usual retort of “I’m almost there” serving as a signal to order the next dawa. The intellectual mood in Nairobi is softened by enterprise. Even the social impact crowd seems more likely to speak the language of scale, platforms, mobile money and market access than nationalisation, redistribution and state led salvation. Southern Africa, by contrast, still carries a heavier liberation era grammar. Politics there often begins with the state, the party, the struggle and the promise that history owes someone something. Nairobi feels more impatient with that theatre. It has its own dysfunctions, certainly, but its instinct is more transactional, more entrepreneurial, more “where is the opportunity?” than “where is the manifesto?” That may be why, even in a city full of NGOs, capitalism still manages to keep the microphone. I like it here….

Two of this farmer's workers had already died from his beatings. The missionary holding the camera knew that. He'd reported the farmer to the police, and he was photographing these wounds for court. Ludwig Cramer was a failed coffee merchant from Hamburg. He moved to German South West Africa in 1906 and bought a farm. He tied workers up for days, whipped a pregnant Herero woman until she miscarried, and beat workers bloody. His wife Ada helped by cutting the clothes off female victims so he could strike harder. Two of his workers died. In August 1912 a German colonial court sentenced him to 20 months in prison. On appeal the next year, the sentence was cut to 4 months and a 2,700 Mark fine. It was one of the only times any German settler was punished for any of this. And the worst was already over. Between 1904 and 1908, German forces had killed an estimated 65,000 to 80,000 Herero, about 80% of the Herero population, and 10,000 Nama, around half of theirs. Historians now call it the first genocide of the 20th century. It started when Chief Samuel Maharero led a rebellion against the seizure of Herero land. General Lothar von Trotha's October 1904 extermination order declared every Herero in the territory was to be killed. Survivors were driven into the desert to die of thirst, or shipped to concentration camps. Shark Island killed between half and three-quarters of its prisoners. Women there were forced to boil the heads of dead inmates and scrape them clean with shards of glass. The skulls were sent to German universities, where researchers tried to prove white Europeans were biologically superior to Africans. One of those researchers was a scientist named Eugen Fischer. In 1923, while Hitler was in prison, he read Fischer's textbook on race hygiene. He cited Fischer in Mein Kampf. Fischer's work later helped shape the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, the Nazi race laws that stripped Jews of their rights. When Hitler took power, he made Fischer head of the University of Berlin. The institute Fischer ran trained the next generation of Nazi race scientists, including Josef Mengele's PhD supervisor. Mengele went to Auschwitz, where he experimented on prisoners and sent body parts back to the same institute. Germany formally apologized in 2021 and offered Namibia €1.1 billion (about $1.3 billion) over 30 years in development aid. But the agreement avoided the words "reparations" and "compensation". Those words could be used against Germany in future lawsuits. Most Herero and Nama leaders walked away from the deal because they were shut out of the talks. Many of the skulls are still sitting in German universities and museums. Cramer himself died in 1917 in a blasting accident on his farm. His wife Ada wrote a book defending him, arguing that Africans needed to be beaten for their own good. Historians now read it as an early blueprint for the "master race" thinking. That thinking would become Nazism.

@ksorbs Let Greeks play Greeks period. But the hate against black people is so strong online, it's very revealing, very deep seated among Kaukasian people a quiet white supremacy mindset Black people are liked by one... but we like everyone and we want to be liked

So apparently Greek culture was invented by Africans? Can any Greeks confirm this for me please.

Guteithagio witeithitie!

@megbasham A young man drops out of school and starts a global company ...

For the record, I think Lupita Nyong’o is incredibly beautiful. I mean she has a nearly perfect face. The issue is that Helen of Troy was Greek and described as fair and Musk is almost certainly correct that Nolan changed her race to fulfill the new diversity standards the Academy requires. And we should whine about that. It’s death to art.

@voxilian @megbasham Is this Monica Beluci ?

@megbasham This is what "incredibly beautiful" looks like.

Let's talk about the word "complex." The "complex situation in Gaza." The "complex history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." The "deeply complex geopolitical dynamics." The situation is not complex. The situation is: a military force with overwhelming technological superiority is killing a large number of civilians in a territory from which those civilians cannot escape. They have been doing this for decades at varying intensities. The people in the territory had their land taken, their movement controlled, their economy strangled, their political choices vetoed by external powers. That is not complex. That is a description of power applied to people who have no comparable power to apply back. The reason they call it "complex" is not because it is. The reason is that clarity produces a demand. Clarity produces: then something must be done. Complexity produces: well, it's very difficult to know what to do. "Complex" is the word that stands between comprehension and responsibility. It is a load-bearing word in the architecture of inaction.

@gheeshoekey @wmnjoya Thank you for the compliment, I don't understand the context of your message

@wmnjoya @kibee The mute button really sanitizes your feed.

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.

@MrKipkalya Tick ✅️💯

I must admit that when I first saw the video of Macron shutting down people at that conference, I checked the calendar to see if we were back to 1952 and Dedan Kimathi was still trying to chase colonialists from the Aberdares. But after some reflection, I found my answer. But let me first tell you a story... I consider Barack Obama the most intelligent person ever elected President anywhere. In his memoirs, The World As It Is, Obama's former Press Chief and speech writer, Ben Rhodes, narrates this moment in Air Force One in 2016, as they returned home from Obama's last foreign trip. Obama went into a sad and silent reflection, before bemoaning how he was leaving behind a world where the only liberal leader with values and could give hope to a declining world was German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "She is all alone out there among sharks", Obama told Rhodes. They were concerned enough to arrange a detour to go and encourage Merkel. A year later, Macron was elected in France. The now retired Obama hailed Macron as a "new liberal leader representing hope rather than fear". In subsequent years, and after Merkel retired, Obama has consistently praised Macron as the only decent and principled global leader left. And Obama is not a man who speaks out of turn. His geopolitical grounding is also superb. So take your eyes off the Nairobi video for a moment. The question asked widely was whether a black (let's just say African) President at a function with a white audience would Europe would do what Macron did. I don't know why the secondary question was not posed; Would a white audience in Europe be making noise and interrupting a presidential function? If you are a frequent traveller, you would notice the Kenyan (not necessarily African) bad manners at meetings. People keep walking out to pick calls, phones ring all the time, people (often paid to be there) in the audience are busy watching videos on their phones, at meetings that their organisation has facilitated them to be in. This is beside arriving late, sitting at wrong spots and talking loudly with everyone we know. Simply put, out meeting manners are a global disaster. I'm not sure if Macron should have been the one to stand up and address the matter, but his doing it was the reason the seriousness of the noise was brought home. And he was also right in stating that if you are not interested in a meeting or discussion, you should stay away. It is rude, classless and stupid. Whether we are told so by a colonial master or by Onyango ja Mandas.