Ogeno G. Okello

"Moi had one attribute that many came to acknowledge only after his exit; he never failed to show gratitude to leaders who worked for people and those who showed patriotism. #MoiCabinet @kenyay

Yale School of Medicine Has a total of 553 students across All four classes. Total Black students: 44. That’s ~10 per class. Total Asian students: 157. That’s ~40 per class. There are nearly as many Asian students PER CLASS as there are Black students in the entire school. Black: 14% of America. Only 7% of Yale Med Asian: 7% of America. 28% of Yale Med. Who exactly is getting discriminated against here ? aamc.org/media/6131/dow…

We must bring to a stop an administration that is burdening wananchi with the high cost of living. Voting for Kenya Kwanza on August 9 means voting for affordable prices of fuel, food, among other basic commodities.

You saw some Luos being mentioned but you lost the reference, and that is how Luos are effectively removed from the fight for Kenya's independence from your mind, madam prof?

The CEO of Norway's sovereign wealth fund has a podcast. And he interviewed Dangote. Find it and listen.

Lit miwuoro.

I think #Nairobi is exactly what it says it is; one of the world’s great diplomatic capitals. Not every African city can host a summit of this magnitude without a single head of state sleeping in a neighbouring country. It is not always about nice speeches and red carpets. Meetings of this nature come with enormous diplomatic, logistical and security complexities. It is always about secure state movement, intelligence coordination, airspace management, accommodation capacity, transport systems, the highest standards of diplomatic protocol, emergency response and ensuring an entire city continues to function while the world’s most protected and influential leaders are in town. With heads of state, global financiers, diplomats, policymakers and development partners gathered in Nairobi, the Africa Forward Summit 2026 was going to be a big, big test for #Kenya. I think it delivered. Credit where credit's due. Cheers to Kenyan tea.🫖☕️

China imposed sanctions on Marco Rubio twice in 2020. Today Rubio became the first sanctioned US Secretary of State to enter Beijing. He boarded Air Force One in the exact Nike Tech Fleece Maduro wore during his January capture. The White House calls it "Venezuela Nike Tech." China imposed sanctions on then-Senator Marco Rubio in July and August 2020 in retaliation for his legislation on Hong Kong autonomy and Uyghur human rights. Rubio, a Cuban-American anti-communist, was the key author of congressional legislation imposing sanctions on China over alleged Uyghur forced labor. The Chinese sanctions included a travel ban and an asset freeze. They were never lifted. Rubio was confirmed as Secretary of State in January 2025. The South China Morning Post headlined Tuesday May 12: "Trump visit sees Marco Rubio become first sanctioned US secretary of state to visit China." Reuters and AFP reported that Beijing granted Rubio entry through a name transliteration workaround. Chinese authorities altered the first character of Rubio's name from 卢 to 鲁, both pronounced "lu" with different tones and meanings. The change appeared in a Ministry of Foreign Affairs news release dated January 16, 2025, four days before Rubio took office. Two diplomats told AFP the change was an immediate workaround since Rubio was banned under the old spelling. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said "what was more important was his English name." On Air Force One Rubio appeared in a gray Nike Tech Fleece tracksuit. It is the exact Heather Grey model and colorway worn by Nicolás Maduro when US forces captured the deposed Venezuelan leader on the night of January 3, 2026, in Operation Absolute Resolve, transferring him to New York on USS Iwo Jima. The $140 Nike Windrunner Full-Zip sold out on Nike's US site within hours of the Maduro photograph circulating. White House communications director Steven Cheung posted the Air Force One photograph and tagged it "Secretary Rubio rocking the Nike Tech 'Venezuela.'" The post went viral. Side-by-side Rubio-Maduro photographs spread across X within hours. Trump arrives in Beijing Wednesday evening for the state visit summit with Xi Jinping on May 14 and 15. The CEO delegation carries combined executive net worth near $870 billion. Elon Musk of Tesla, Tim Cook of Apple, Larry Fink of BlackRock, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs, Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, Jane Fraser of Citigroup, and Kelly Ortberg of Boeing are aboard. Jensen Huang of Nvidia boarded Air Force One in Anchorage Tuesday as a last-minute addition after Trump's personal call. China issued a fresh Taiwan warning Wednesday opposing US arms sales and pledging to "crush independence." Trump told reporters he expects "a big fat hug from Xi." The Rubio paradox runs three layers. Six years ago he wrote the legislation that got him sanctioned by China. Today he flies into China as the United States chief diplomat. Five months ago US forces captured Maduro in Caracas. Today Rubio enters the country that sanctioned him wearing Maduro's exact outfit. Rubio's anti-communist arc runs Cuba to Venezuela to China. The White House sold the photograph as "Venezuela Nike Tech." Diplomacy has become meme warfare. The summit agenda runs Taiwan, Iran, AI chips, rare earths, farm goods, and Boeing aircraft. Xi receives a delegation that includes the man China legally banned. The umbrella has holes. The protocols have rewrites. The Maduro tracksuit is the negotiating chip. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Strands and sub strands. Painful by a lot.

Be serious.

They made us almost hate our son , kumbe ni tribalism.

Wole Soyinka settled this debate decades ago. When asked why he wrote in English, the coloniser's language he said the "tiger does not proclaim its tigritude. It pounces." In other words, the tool does not define the intention. The weapon you use does not determine whose side you are on. Soyinka wrote in English and still dismantled colonial thinking more effectively than most people who refused to. Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote in Gikuyu and still used a printing press invented in Europe. The medium was never the message. A Pan-African supporting European football is not a contradiction. Football was not invented to oppress Africa. The CFA Franc was. French military bases were. Françafrique was. These are deliberate political instruments of control. A football jersey is not. The question was never what language you speak or what sport you watch? The question is whether you understand who is exploiting your continent, how they are doing it and whether you have the courage to say something about it in whatever language you choose. Soyinka chose English and still made the coloniser deeply uncomfortable. You can sing in French, watch European football and still demand African dignity. That is not hypocrisy. That is tigritude. Usiogope kusupport PSG, ogopa kukuwa mtumwa wa akili na kutumika kama kikaragosi cha mkoloni au kuendekeza ukoloni-mamboleo. Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.

PSYCHOLOGY TRICKS THAT ARE BEING USED ON YOU RIGHT NOW: 1. Restaurants put a very expensive dish at the top of the menu so the second most expensive item directly below it suddenly feels like the sensible choice. 2. Online stores show "only 3 left in stock" even when the warehouse holds thousands because scarcity triggers a fear that makes logic temporarily unavailable. 3. Negotiators always ask for more than they want because your counter offer anchors to their number and they end up exactly where they planned from the start. 4. Real estate agents always show you a bad property first so the second one feels significantly better regardless of whether it actually is or not. 5. Doctors write in illegible handwriting and research shows patients rate confident illegible doctors as more competent than clear ones without knowing why. 6. Luxury brands deliberately keep their stores minimalist and sparse because empty space signals that each item is too valuable to compete for your attention. 7. Job listings use words like "competitive salary" which means the number exists but they want you committed emotionally before it becomes the conversation. 8. Political campaigns repeat simple phrases constantly because the brain mistakes familiarity for truth and what sounds known starts to feel like fact. 9. Fitness brands show transformation photos in specific lighting with the before photo slouched in bad light and the after photo standing tall in perfect conditions. 10. Museums put their gift shop at the exit so you pass through it emotionally full from the experience and far more likely to spend on something to remember it by. 11. Waiters repeat your order back to you slowly and deliberately because studies show this simple act alone increases the tip left by a measurable and consistent percentage. 12. Salespeople use your first name repeatedly during a pitch because the brain registers its own name as a signal of personal relevance and drops its guard accordingly. 13. Charities place a small free gift inside the donation envelope because receiving something first triggers an obligation so powerful that rejection rates drop dramatically.

For too long, Africa’s resources have been extracted, the value captured elsewhere, the environmental damage left behind. No more exploitation. No more plundering. The people of Africa must benefit - first & most - from the resources of Africa.

It's a habit of Kenyan bureaucrats that has frustrated me for ages. They have this knack of doing the most imperialist thing while using anti-colonial rhetoric at the same time. The two incidents that win the prize in this skill is Martin Kimani's speech at the UN in support of Ukraine, and this speech by Matiang'i. This dissonance still cracks me up.

Prominent SA Businessman Robert Gumede on Ali Dangote oil refinery business in Africa. #sabcnews

The nation that arranged the poisoning of Toussaint Louverture of St Domingue ( Haïti) for demanding the end of slavery and the liberation of his people in 1803; that assassinated Ruben Um Nyobe, the Cameroonian independence leader hunted down and killed in 1958 by French forces before independence was even formally granted, that had Felix Moumie of Cameroon, poisoned in Geneva by his intelligence in 1960, that orchestrated the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio of Togo by soldiers of his colonial army in 1963, that armed and protected the man who murdered Thomas Sankara in 1987 and sheltered him for decades, that supported the destabilisation that led to the overthrow and death of Modibo Keita of Mali, that printed millions of fake currency to destroy the Guinean Franc after 8 failed assassination attempts at Sekou Toure because he stood his grounds and demanded independence, that stood behind the forces that removed and destroyed Patrice Lumumba, coordinating with Belgium and the CIA to ensure Congo’s most visionary independence leader did not survive his own government, that massacred at least 100,000 Malagasy people, 250,000 Cameroonians, 1.2 million Algerians between 1955 and 1962 simply because they demanded their independence. The president of that nation, less than half a century after committing such atrocities stood before a room full of African heads of state in 2026 and declared itself the true Pan-Africanist. And not one of them stood up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Not one said: you cannot use that word: not here, not with that history on this continent. Not a single one had the dignity to say what any person with an elementary knowledge of what Pan-Africanism means and what France has done to those who practiced it would have said immediately and without hesitation. It is the equivalent of a Nazi leader standing before a Jewish assembly and announcing that Germany is the true defender of the Jewish people. There are words that carry such historical mass that no political convenience, no diplomatic ambition, no funding arrangement justifies allowing them to be stolen and worn by those who spent generations trying to destroy what those words represent; Pan-Africanism is one of those words. And it was surrendered in that room without a fight, by men who were supposed to be there representing us. France is not even a formidable power anymore. It cannot impose its will on its own European neighbourhood. Its economy is strained, its global influence is null, its African military presence has been expelled. It intimidates no one who has chosen not to be intimidated. And yet these boneless, prideless, senseless humans we call Africa leaders sat and applauded this humiliation ritual. What breaks me is knowing that every generation, without fail, produces its quota of leaders who will trade the dignity of their people for a photograph with a western head of state, for a seat at a table that was never set for them. They dress it up as pragmatism and call it diplomacy. But it is the oldest and most contemptible transaction in the postcolonial playbook: the surrender of collective dignity for personal visibility. And these are days, I will not pretend otherwise, where I genuinely wonder if we will ever be free.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Not because the struggle is not real or the people are not capable, but because freedom requires leaders at the decisive moment, and every decisive moment seems to find us represented by spineless, glory-hunting, photograph-chasing men who would sell the graves of their own predecessors for a handshake with those that tried to erase their people. Every generation inherits the fight for freedom but also produces the cowards who auction it.

@TouchlineX Ronaldo earned the No. 7 jersey and it was properly passed on to him by Raul!.. Perez just handed it to Vinicius on a silver platter.😭 Perez should be sacked for trying to bury Ronaldo's legacy by giving these talentless hacks Galatico treatment!

CURRENCIES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Patrice Motsepe's father led successful protests against a Canadian mining company to secure royalties for vanadium mined on tribal land in South Africa 🇿🇦. His sister is the First Lady of South Africa, and Ramaphosa is his brother-in-law. His other sister is Africa's first black female mine owner/operator.