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@irumbib @GathigiaKinyua 😂😂

This statement is written in English but sounds swahilish

#naiskech KICC Edition 2. Always a pleasure capturing #Nairobi Architecture through sketches. with @kimsonnah

drive.google.com/file/d/1egk9EL… I have uploaded this book(ALL 3 VOLUMES) here at the behest of a number of you. I’ll be updating the drive with soft copies of novels and publications of all genres as they come to mind. Enjoy.

In The Nairobian this week... Artists pay tribute to Patrick Mukabi's legacy of mentoring young artists.

@FKAHAFARE Hizo Black and White ndio zilimaliza watu😂

I went for this concert alone. At the pregame I met two babes who were friends of friends and we decided to go together. Right after we got to the venue one of the babes blacked out because she drank too much, her friend decided that she wasn't gonna miss out on the show

@CydWambui October

Oh so beautiful.

The role of Senators under Article 96: • Represent counties – Speak for their county at the national level. • Make laws – Debate and pass Bills that affect counties. • Oversee funds – Check how money sent to counties is used. • Share revenue – Help decide how national funds are divided among the 47 counties. Senators DO NOT run counties or MANAGE services like roads, hospitals, or schools. That’s the Governor’s job. Their POWER is in Parliament: making laws, protecting devolution, and holding the national government accountable on county matters.

@Wanjiru2027 @Jabali_Jr What’s the rationale behind your take?

Can we as a nation decide to scrap off women rep position!!!

I've always told my PhD students that a PhD is a marathon and not a sprint. Now that Sabastian Sawe has run the London Marathon in under 2 hours, I'll need to think of something else to tell them.

@CydWambui Jacaranda season is beautiful on that road. May the legend rest in power

Kuna day i was walking with Panye huko Railways Museum. Ilikua season ya lavender kubloom, zilikua zinaanguka juu ya upepo. Aliinama akachukua moja akaieka kwa nywele yangu. Like out of a movie and for no reason. What a guy. Rip💕

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas. Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours. Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count. Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024. Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds. Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it. The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record. Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

#naiskech KICC Edition. Documenting Nairobi one building at a time.

We are saddened by the passing of Patrick Mukabi, whose art brought Nairobi’s stories and spirit into our spaces at Java House. His legacy lives on in every brushstroke. Rest well, Patrick Mukabi. Our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and the creative community.

I mourn the passing of Patrick Mukabi, the artist behind the iconic paintings in all Java House wall paintings. As a newbie journalist, my bery first assignment was to cover the story of how Mukabi memorialised the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi. I have followed his work over the years and my best series from his collection was Market Women. Mukabi did a lot of work teaching youngsters to paint. But above all, he immortalised many aspects of Nairobi social life. He is a national treasure. The city of Nairobi owes him a great of gratitude. We need a City Arts Council to recognise such artists Wangui Maina and Dennis Onsarigo.

The trophy for the Cadillac Championship next week + the idea behind it

Rest easy Panye 💔

While poring over some of the interviews that the team gave, there was this small yet monumental detail: @RealShinski's team turned sponsors away for not meeting the production’s standard. Me, personally, I love it.

Watched an Alex Mwakideu interview the other day he was talking to the legendary judge from Vioja Mahakamani. Millennials, you know her ~That no-nonsense mama who took zero nonsense in that courtroom. Now here’s the wild part they never had scripts. Not a single one. They’d just show up, pick roles, agree on the case, and go. Cameras rolling, take one, done. So every punchline Alphonse Makacha and Dot Makokha ever dropped? Pure improvisation. No rehearsal. Nothing prepared. Just talent doing its thing in real time. Kenya really had something special with that crew. And here’s the part that gets me AG Amos Wako was fully behind the show. He’d supply them with real court cases and actual judgments from Kenyan courts. So when the judge passed her verdict on screen, it wasn’t made up. It was legally accurate, straight from the constitution. Comedy on the surface. Civic education underneath. That’s a level of craft most productions today can’t touch. Golden era. Salute to those legends. 🫡

Hello Meek Mill I am a creative from Kenya. We created a music session that host both Kenyan and international music inside a real stationery store. The aesthetic is unique with art and culture. We would be honored to host you in Kenya or collab Link-youtu.be/AiDrC4E0sFY?si…

Unaweza kalia woofer but huwezi skiza kiti