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@KenyaPower_Care please send token for 14251449303. Purchased through mpesa at 7:18pm today but not yet received

@joemacharia_ @kiogothimaina @_fels1 Misfortune

@kiogothimaina @_fels1 The direct translation of this isn't any different from the English one. It simply says 'on that date, she met with the accident of being raped by her uncle, and later he killed her'.

Members of this family should be locked in one room and intentionally flogged mercilessly. WTF!

@TDi_Skoda @SpryVoice This is different from that - this is "kibutu"

@SpryVoice In french we call this "kafunda", different from the smaller one "gacukari"

Those who knows about bananas. I found these 'sweet' bananas a few years ago. They were not taken care of. When we start keeping dairy cows, we had manure and started enriching them. They have improved and are producing huge bananas. What specific variety of sweet bananas are they?

Hi @KenyaPower_Care we have had no power for two days 38048070

Battle of deputies: Inside last ditch by-election campaigns as Kindiki, Gachagua camp in Mbeere zurl.co/Hu6Jn

@ArchitectMwangi @Bossyator What’s the size and cost?

@Bossyator Yes Boss

You all have to agree this is one of the best rustic-finished houses. In this era of plastering and funny funny mouldings, bro went natural & built a beauty!

THREAD: I have spent months investigating the foreign mercenaries in DR Congo. I met some of them in Romania & Goma. One Romanian mercenary’s salary equaled that of 50 Congolese soldiers. The government says they are just 'instructors' but this is not entirely true @BBCAfrica.

Malawi VP Saulos Chilima was described as a "performer" and "workaholic" but he was perhaps defined by being at the centre of corruption allegations in government. First as an accuser, and then as an accused. bbc.com/news/articles/…

This men's conference is quite intriguing for non-Kenyans bbc.com/news/world-afr…

@EmmanuelIgunza @Ethankingsgames That's some nice scenery

Down by the riverside with my son @Ethankingsgames. It’s not some exotic lands far away. It’s home. Beautiful.

@Maina_Poultry @SpryVoice Is there anywhere one can get the original/non-hybridised varieties, or are these lost for ever? And not just for sweet potatoes but other crops?

Hello @SpryVoice. Here is a possible answer to the question and it is hypothetical rather than fact as no studies so far have been carried out. We are aware that dietary changes affect and effect changes in gut physiology and microbiome applbiolchem.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…. doi.org/10.1017/S00296… I therefore posit that our gut physiology and the attendant microbiome as Africans isn't the same as it was 30-50 years ago and that what we had earlier was a gut microbiome suited for digesting fibers, sugars and was way superior in handling antinutritional factors of most vegetables , tubers, fruits and legumes of our tropical environment. Then therefore: 1. 30 years ago as young boys and girls we could handle all tubers as the body was physiologically adapted to do so unlike now where most tubers are consumed in small portions and most are now regarded as elite meals hence a change in physiology and microbial populations. Current microbial populations are now adapted to handling sugars associated with cereal crops such as rice, maize/corn and wheat (fast energy producing fibers and sugars). With this change, it means that the slow energy releasing tuber with hard to break fibers will capture gases as fermentation gets imbalanced. No wonder the flatulence as the body tries to figure out what is going on with this new meal of tubers unaccustomed to it. 2. The current sweet potatoes that you mentioned have been highly hybridized for increased mass production cipotato.org/blog/boosting-… especially the yellow type that is in our local market now. With this hybridization, there may have been an increased in a sugar called mannitol, which can cause bloating and diarrhea in people with sensitive stomachs doi.org/10.1104/pp.010…, link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…. Other antinutritional factors such as glycoalkaloids may have increased inadvertently with the hybridization too link.springer.com/article/10.100…. The interplays are too complex but I think we can have some simple ideas going on. And by the way, a society like ours that has never had iron and mineral issues now has a lot of health issues with and due to mineral deficiencies due to adopting hybridized crops that have less than 50% mineral content compared to our traditional crops.

@SpryVoice Certainly the type of ngwacis we had were different, more resilient in dry weather and bigger in most cases, There were also more varieties

@mutahibasse Interesting. I may have missed it. I personally never reacted but bodies also change. I was allergic and outgrew it. That said, these aren't the same ngwaci we ate.

Growing up I don't remember tubers being source of gas. We ate sweet potatoes a lot (God we hated them!). They didn't cause bloating. When things got tough in grazing fields we'd dig and eat them raw. Those days I only knew two varieties. Both white but yellow and pure skin.

The flying President. "Out of the 407 days that President Ruto has been in power, he has spent 83 days out of the country visiting over 45 cities in 38 countries...[His] love for travelling sees him spend one out of five days abroad"

William Ruto: The ‘tax collector’ president sparking Kenyans' anger bbc.in/471Ot8Y

The man who vowed to make the ‘Germany of Africa’ bbc.com/news/world-afr…

@cirublessed @MissNasike thanks

@mutahibasse @MissNasike Hi. Follow martin on Facebook. He's our facilitator.

It is still baffles me how our nutritious African traditional vegetables were (are) labelled as weeds and pesticides imposed on us on how to control them.

@cirublessed @MissNasike Would like to know more about the classes. Is there possibly a link where one can get more details?

@MissNasike I attend a class at the museum every Thursday. I've been amazed at how potent our herbs are. We were seriously hoodwinked.