Peter Gakunga

@thesarahmwangi @AmbMKimani I concur. @AmbMKimani

@AmbMKimani Hello Ambassador Kimani. It would be a great honor to have you on our podcast breaking down these issues. Ready when you are sir, thank you

A brief note on Kenyan diplomatic history in the context of the present missile attacks on airport infrastructure in the UAE and the region. In January 2022, the Houthis attacked Abu Dhabi airport. The UAE and Kenya were both in the Security Council at the time 🧵

@anto_ty Initially recorded in the 70s by Afrorock group Black Savage. He was part of this group of Lenana School students.

'Kothbiro' by Ayub Ogada is probably one of the most used Kenyan track by international TV and film despite it never being a 'banger' here

@leone_ruri @anto_ty Correct. Those of us who were in school in the 70s played this version. It was an Afrorock band out of Lenana School

@anto_ty On top of that. This version is a cover of the original by a band called Black Savage, of which Ayub Ogata was a member.

@MushtaqBilalPhD @lovedropx US masters being completely useless is not a statement I expect from you. The spectrum of masters degrees is vast, and so is the utility. With as large an influence as you have, this opinion will mislead many.

@lovedropx Not really a fan of Master's degrees in general, but it's country-specific. US Master's is completely useless, it's a scam to fleece unwitting folks. But in Denmark, if you don't get a Master's, you aren't considered serious enough of a person who can join the job market.

@DavidNdii kirùngii for Westlands and Koronia for Adam’s Arcade,

When I was growing up, older people referred to Westlands as Kìrùngiì, which roughly translates to ‘upright or standing”. They said it was so called because it was a market where Kikuyu and Maasai transacted while standing.

@wawiranjiru @Food4Education This is my idea of systems thinking, ecosystems, and intersectionality…many are the winners

1.12 million bananas. Every month. 🍌 Not for supermarkets — for our school meals across Kenya. At @Food4Education, local sourcing turns nutrition into steady income for farmers and stronger food systems. Feeding kids can fuel economies too. #Feedingthefuture

@footsoldierRow In the 60s, living in Railways Landi Mawe Estate was complete with a shopping center, social hall/playground, and clinic. Street cleaning every week. Milk and newspaper left outside your door each morning, paid for at end of week; more importantly no one stole them.

Hard for many believe too but so did umoja 1 in 90s with uniform housing, not as big as Buru but good, roads all roundas well done, cute lawns hapo mbele before flats and extensions ruined it. Clean, Kanjo used to come to fumigate, NCC had green bins at every corner of the court

@mwendesusu This book by one of the founding teachers at Giakanja High School, Nyeri, a post independence effort that was supported at national as well as grassroots level, sheds light on aspects of the current debate on local involvement in educational infrastructure. A worthy read.

The conversation we should be having is why the majority of the "best" public secondary schools in Kenya were built by colonialists and why there hasn't been an effort to create better schools across the country as even in the year 2026 it's still the same schools being coveted?!

@jnyairo @NationAfrica Went for the review..came out with new concept..”.. private remembrance as social history” and now understand the value of my 3 generation family photo album….Thank you very much.

Promise kept✅ I do not know enough about Uganda to rule on whether this is an award-winning book but I do know… (I no longer write for @NationAfrica) If you like long reads the rest of my review of Mahmood Mamdani’s Slow Poison is on Substack for free. open.substack.com/pub/joycenyair…

@wmnjoya @DavidHundeyin There were several high school CU leaders from my 1970s in Nairobi who were shipped to southern USA Bible schools. The product that came back fell short of the precedents who had slogged through seminaries and universities…to the detriment of all.

In Kenya it was worse. They gave scholarships to Africans to attend "bible schools," blocked them from attending seminaries to study theology, condemning "theology" as evil because it doesn't lead to salvation. Philosophy in Kenya is condemned as evil by the clergy who have kept it under lock and key. And they got away with it. In 1974, John S. Mbiti, guru of "African philosophy," even called Black theology, which had been inspired by the Black Panther Party, "angry" and unnecessary in Africa. Imagine that is the guy whom all Kenyan students of theology and philosophy are told to read. And the CIA got away with it. To this day, Kenyan clergy will proudly tell you that they don't study theology. The way the Anglos psyoped us is something to almost admire.

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, under the guise of "countering Communism," the CIA infiltrated Christian movements all over Africa and the Global South with the mission of steering Christian doctrines away from so-called "Liberation Theology" (teachings that encouraged people to stand up to corrupt governments and take collective action to better their lives), because this doctrine apparently was "Communist." It funded and assisted the explosive growth of a whole new form of Christianity, which you recognise today as Prosperity Gospel, and it pumped millions of dollars into pushing it all over the Global South as part of its Cold War effort. This new doctrine ignored any kind of collectivism and encouraged people to see their Christian faith and salvation as individualistic issues that can be measured with specific individual outcomes, such as economic "blessing." It was the perfect capitalist trojan horse because it convinced people to stop thinking of progress as a shared national issue and rather as an individual responsibility, which meant they did not need to organise into pressure groups, political movements, trade unions, student unions, or any other collectivist entities that the US government considered "Leftist" or "Communist." It succeeded wildly, and turned the world's poorest people in Sub Saharan Africa into rabid, money-obsessed capitalists without capital. And in case you're wondering whether this means that all your mega pastors in Lagos and Abuja are US government-funded industry plants, the answer is simple: do a 1-minute Google search and find out where they all gained their theology degree or pastor training. There's your answer. Anyway this is all on open record on the FOIA section of the CIA's own website, but the oyibos have convinced you that "Africans don't read," and you have internalised your own false stereotype, so you definitely won't read regardless. Your job is to enter my comment sections and drop laughing emojis because your forced laughter is your coping mechanism for dealing with how completely powerless and lost you are in a world you haven't begun to understand. Anyway for the benefit of the 2 people who understand the value of reading and exervising their brains: CIA and Missionaries: Half a Loaf by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson sojo.net/magazine/may-j… CIA Covert Action Information Bulletin Number 18: The CIA and Religion cia.gov/readingroom/do… Blowback of the gods: the U.S. government's covert use of religion as a tool of foreign policy in the Cold War by Wallace, James C. open.bu.edu/items/4e6bb7b6… Liberation Theology: Religion, Reform, and Revolution (CIA Directorate of Intelligence Research Paper) cia.gov/readingroom/do…

@WambuiKamiru Very true. As recently as the colonial times, along the Nanyuki railway line around Kirichu, Ngaini, and Kiganjo, many Maasai “crossed the railway” both physically and metaphorically.

My people the Gikuyu were not a monolithic people. They absorbed other ethnic groups as they migrated across what would later become Central Province.

I have been doing some archival, geographical, historical research on the folks known as the Agikuyu. Thread

@jnyairo Working through this one by him, Mamdani, the roots of these shenanigans traced to Europe pre-Westphalia 1642; to American colonists vis a vis Native Americans; adapted by the colonialists in Africa; and distilled by our own post colonial polity. Required reading, in my opinion.

For those who need tribe to grasp any and every person; phenomenon; perspective; perception; pathway; plan, please finish the year with Mahmood Mamdani’s treatise “Slow Poison”. May our thoughts in the coming quarter century transcend all narrow and oppressive prisms.

@wawiranjiru @Food4Education Well earned and Congratulations!

Humbled to end the year named among the 100 Most Influential Africans 2025 🎉🙏🏾 A year of highs, lows, wins, losses, and lessons. Any work worth doing comes with all of it. Grateful for the privilege of doing work that matters with the incredible team at @food4education.

@Eastleighvoice @wawiranjiru 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Why anchoring Dishi na County in law could significantly improve children’s nutrition and long-term outcomes, especially in informal settlements like Huruma, where poverty and food insecurity remain daily realities amid economic hardship. Full story: shorturl.at/UGBwU

@naomiwanjikustudio/post/DRQPGPQkaa-?xmt=AQF02FmpTuGvnovJgOVduZKTwJjK_8gvh62Pkq5Ytwhev6vu7MZ3zQEFeLEHyizmLDwpEvuW&slof=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.com/@naomiwanjikus…

@wawiranjiru @Food4Education Well done! This is the true revolution. Adequate nutrition at a young age translates into not only physical gains, but, even more importantly to cognitive and hence intellectual gains. Well done!

When schools are closed, the @Food4Education team is busy planning and building for the next school year. 2 new counties coming up early 2026 💃🏽 #FeedingTheFuture

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@wawiranjiru Very well deserved!

Thank you 🙏🏾

@mohammedhersi Great self awareness and courage in diplomacy

Level-headed Somali ambassador to Kenya  H.E. Jabril Ibrahim Abdulle Thank you for stepping forward to apologise. Sports is meant to unite and to be enjoyed. Your excelency you will need to come hard on boys who have left diaspora they dont want to go to Somalia and their parents opt to let them live in Kenya because they are social misfits back in the west. They have zero respect for the locals and that should not be tolerated. I have also seen a statement from our internal security CS @kipmurkomen on this very matter of misbehaving fans at Nyayo stadium. By Friday the two culprits ought to be identified arrested and made to face charges. Its high time the bad apples are smoked out .