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Day 61: Asking @WilliamsRuto to help me apply & successfully acquire a job abroad. It should offer; 1. Liveable wage 2. Comprehensive health insurance 3. 30 days paid leave 4. 4 months paid maternity leave 5. Pension Doing this until he accepts this challenge #IkoKaziNgambo

I cannot forget that I spent more than a year and a half working with a major international humanitarian organisation, one that prides itself on operating in conflict zones across the world and speaks constantly about the protection of human dignity. Yet when I was evacuated from Gaza, they did not even recognise me. I left Gaza as a survivor of a genocide, disoriented and displaced, and not a single person from that organisation came to see me, to stand beside me, or even to ask how I was surviving. There was no support. No solidarity. No acknowledgment. While I was still inside Gaza, they performed concern. They spoke the language of care. They made it seem as though I mattered. But once I crossed the border and stepped into exile, the illusion collapsed. To them, I had simply been a function of the war, a body working under bombardment, a machine documenting and operating in the middle of catastrophe. Whether that machine survived or died made little difference. If one disappeared, another would take its place. And the truth is that this was not unique. Many of the organisations that operated in Gaza mastered the art of saying one thing and doing another. Their public language is compassion, dignity, and solidarity. But behind that language often lies a colder reality. Inside Gaza they made me feel that my presence and my work mattered. Later I realised that much of that was little more than anaesthesia, comforting words offered to someone who was desperate to believe that the world was still paying attention. When you are living through war, even the smallest sign of recognition can feel like hope. And sometimes that hope turns out to have been nothing more than a carefully rehearsed performance.

@mx__chichi Oh yeah, how it was cooked and the frequency of consumption changed significantly due to reservations. I think this applies to githeri too. I was only saying no one introduced ugali to Agikuyu.

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There is a link between ugali & colonial reservations. Why is ugali a staple in communities that were placed in reservations? Communities where movements were restricted?

A few years back, FAO published an article on the indigenous foods consumed in Kenya. It's still in their repository

Yes. There is no food truly indigenous to people. Food is about interactions, some hostile, some collaborative, some built on mutual respect. Food tells you alot about people; where they've been, who they've met, & how those interactions altered their reality.

During COVID pandemic there was a Carribean academic who wrote about indigenous pant decolonizing colonial sugar plantations. You can learn a lot about pre-colonial agriculture by seeing how the open fields are navigating the decline of colonial plantations.

I've seen many posts from Americans expressing their grief over the soldiers who were killed, especially these two, perhaps because they were good people in their own country. I know how you feel right now and I want to offer my condolences but I cant . We understand your grief, or rather, I should say we Yemenis, Palestinians, Iranians, Lebanese, and Iraqis understand 1you're feeling very well . We've experienced what you're feeling now more than once, many times indeed. But the difference between us and you is that those we grieve for were either killed in their homes or killed defending their homes . I can't offer my condolences not because I don't respect your feelings, but because I respect the feelings of the Iranians whom these soldiers were killing. You should be angry, but not at those who killed them, because those who killed them were only defending themselves. You should be angry at those who sent them to the other side of the world to kill and destroy others. Forgive me for not being able to share your grief, because there are 168 Iranian parents have lost their daughters because of your soldiers. And more than 1,000 martyrs have been killed in Iran to this day. We did not come to you, nor do we want to harm you. We are only defending ourselves from your soldiers. I hope your soldiers will not come to us with their weapons to kill us, and that they will not continue killing us so that we are not forced to defend ourselves and kill them

@NeNekesa Wild adult behaviour

@mx__chichi With metaphorical statements made like ‘baba’s bedroom’ ‘pillow talk’ etc

We will not forget, today in 2022 waists were swang & buttocks were clapped!

Gem Chereokee corn is one of the most important types of corn you can have. If you ever get some, keep seeds.

Someone who knows global history!

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@ckukumwenyewe Maize is from the Americas

@mx__chichi No single variety of maize is African?

Maize was introduced in Kenya by the Portuguese in the 17th century & wheat was championed by Lord Delamere in the 1900 prompting the colonial gov to invest in wheat research & large scale farming in the 1920s

@rAjanItjJa Lol. When you put it like that it sounds devastating

@mx__chichi this is the endlessly rich harvest of the education system that colonialism has imposed on us - how can we even begin to free ourselves if we do not know we are slaves... ...imagine the amount of lies in that mind - that was jus one.

@beth_kasinga I am here not as active as kitambo though ☺️

@mx__chichi I knew you would show up

If you've been on this app long enough you know I can name 100 different foods that are indigenous to Kenya & at least 3 recipes indigenous to each community but as always Sina source!! I recommend reading a book & traveling. Tembea Kenya!

@ChegeVic_254 A lot of people confuse staple food for indigenous food

@mx__chichi I said the same thing but it according to her it's African food because it's our staple nowadays. The most exhausting conversation I've had in a long while

Nandi leaders couldn't believe their eyes and ears and now gaslighting residents for heckling them. The message was clear people want developments. For them to say we missed presidential directives because waliambiwa 'wantam" infront of their party leader is ridiculous. What have they done with the budgets they have? Roads in Nandi chaotic Hospital shida People's voices are powerful and that's the reality "kemeche boishonik" (we want developments ) is what they said in unison when President Ruto asked them why they were heckling.

I'm not a girlie but yes this really helped my skin especially during Boston winter I even experienced less dandruff when going for steam baths