Gov. Johnson Sakaja: I saw a clip on Tuesday of alleged goons coming from City Hall. Some are claiming that I, the governor, was meeting these goons to plan violence. However, I was in Diani with my Cabinet doing our end-of-year retreat.
#K24Siasa
Does anyone here know the reason that so many street names in Sunninghill, Johannesburg are of Kenyan towns, places and even people? They have Bogoria, Diani, Nanyuki, Naivasha, Kikuyu, Kilindini, Kisumu, Malindi, Nakuru, Mungai, Ngobit, Tana, Thika and more.
2024, police ban protests in Nairobi CBD and surrounding areas claiming, among other things, that the protests may be hijacked. In March 1992, the state claimed the protests by the mothers of political prisoners had been hijacked too. Can someone write them a new script, please?
While South Africa stands with
@caster800m
Kenya is distancing itself from it's athletes. No wonder some other Africans look down on Kenyans.
I stand with Maximilla Imali Evangeline Makena. Je wewe?
Once again a terribly dodgy character has been made the object of public sympathy. He will now milk this for all it is worth, even though he is as tainted as those harassing him. His tentacles stretch back to the 1990s when he was a bagman for another crook. And so it goes.
Kenyans will get this. I passed this Stellenbosch winery today and not only is it named after our once only political party, it even has a bird symbol. A dear friend said about the wine: "I'm sure it tastes like oppression and despair"
Not having had any yet I couldn't comment
If you know this much and have credible evidence, surely you should be busy arresting the criminals and letting the rest of the people get on with their demonstration in peace and security. Kwani?
AG. IG MASENGELI'S ADDRESS REGARDING THE SURMISED NANE NANE DEMONSTRATIONS
The Ag. Inspector General National Police Service Mr. Gilbert Masengeli on August 7, 2024 cautioned the public that criminals planning to infiltrate tomorrow’s Nane Nane demonstrations and
We had a tree planting holiday, and now we have a tree growing one. Next, perhaps a tree hugging holiday? Or even a tree worshipping holiday? Let's see how the year goes.
Who are these seven folks they write of? At school, we were taught about the Seven Forks Dam, but then again, that was a very long time ago, and huko kwa ground things may have changed.
Kenya’s Veteran Journalist
@cgicheru1
Joins Reuters in Advisory Role She was the first female bureau chief and the first female news editor of the Nation Media Group, and was founding editor of the Star 👏👏👏
When
#Mnagagwa
was VP he had grey hair, now that he's president and running for office, it's all turned jet black. Wow! The miracles of African politics. BTW I wonder if he uses rice water too like some Kenyan politicians.
#CarteBlanche
This is where we've reached when we applaud a fish for swimming. However, the fact that Constable Ombati seems embarrassed by all the fuss made about him doing his job puts him high in my estimation.
@kenyanpundit
Be advised the sheep or its wool is their tribal totem. The Chief elder in their house of elders sits on a sack of it, and wearing wool on the head denotes great wisdom, or so they seem to believe.
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza publicly honoured his 12-year-old daughter with a medal for being a good girl at home at a Workers' Day ceremony.
It is no longer acceptable in this age to see sex workers as a tourist attraction,” city councillor Udo Kock said. A survey has shown 80% of sex workers say gawping tourists are bad for their business
It takes a Catholic cathedral to remind us that we have barely advanced an inch from the medieval buying of indulgences, when the rich could amass their fortunes in as filthy a fashion as they liked – and then donate to the Church to launder their reputations.
The British owners of an avocado farm in Kenya that supplies supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Lidl — and until recently Marks & Spencer — are being sued over a string of abuses
The Kenyan government is a product of its colonial upbringing and has difficulty imagining its people as fully functioning human beings capable of understanding or dealing with complexity.
Flipping through my archives and I found probably the last time a certain former president sent a public message to the family of his former buddy. June 1990.
Nairobi is one of the most expensive cities in Africa, yet more than half of the urban population lives in slums. Only 30,000 Kenyans, out of 48 million, hold mortgages.
@AdhiamboKE
There's an apocryphal story from the 1980s of a young fellow who rode a horse from Ridgeways to Carnivore.He partied all night and rode back at dawn.
This fellow, like Goebbels, practices the philosophy: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." And people seem to fall for it.
On July 8th, a trending hashtag
#GayZ
, a play on GenZ, appeared alongside hashtags
#LGBTQKanairo
and
#Right2Kiss
,on X quickly reaching the top trend and amassing over 15 thousand posts.
Twitter. The place where you occasionally come across people you used to know and then have to wonder whether they were always so hateful, or whether it's a new aspect of their personality that they've developed?
Mathenge Mukundi a rastafarian admitted to the bar this week
Mathenge was a student at Kenyatta University
Mathenge says he is a practicing rastafarian
Mathenge says he will remain true to his rastafarian bobo shanty doctrine
#CitizenWeekend
@VickyRubadiri
Breaking News: ASA to appeal the Court of Arbitration for Sport's decision in the Caster Semenya case. The CAS ruled on the side of the IAAF two weeks ago, allowing athetics' governing body to implement new rules with regards to testosterone levels in women running certain races.
Kenya is building the world's new most expensive road, 27km
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport-Westlands Highway ($583.821 million).
China Road and Bridge Corporation is estimated to make a $1.020 billion profit. They will run it for 27 years (2023 - 2049).
Source: The Star KE
It would be a mistake to assume that Mazrui’s book is just for children. The adults who might like a quick insight into the life and struggles of Kenya’s former Chief Justice
@WMutunga
In many African countries, a dirty secret of journalism is that reporters earn most of their income from payments by their sources.The dirtiest secret of all is the international aid community is among the most prolific
@kenyanpundit
Can you get an interview with their traditional leaders? I believe they have rather quaint traditions of succession involving climbing up tree houses.
@RookieKE
In my experience, most of Kenya's rich are still at the primitive amass and accumulate as much as you can stage and have absolutely no idea how to truly relax with their money or to enjoy it. But maybe I just know the wrong rich people.
@RKI2011
@caster800m
You stand by your athletes you support them and try and find a way through. You point out the unfairness of it don't stand around snivelling "sasa mnataka nifanye nini?"
Because everyone knows that the government has the power to decide what is best for Kenyans who have no idea that they can choose not to watch certain content if it doesn't appeal to them.
The blackmailing of gay people in Kenya helped turn me into a Queer rights activist back in the 1990s. In my
@TheStarKenya
column I write about Why Kenya’s courts should repeal Section 162 of the penal code via
@TheStarKenya
@Nanjala1
True the British government spent £20 million, a staggering 40% of its budget in 1833, to buy freedom for slaves (about £20bn now), but the money didn’t go to the slaves, but to their owners for their loss of ‘property’. One of the world's biggest bailouts.
"Coronavirus is the work of god punishing countries who imposed sanctions on us...They are now staying indoors. Their economies are screaming just like they did to our economy" said Zimbabwe's defence minister Oppah Muchinguri via AFP
@sarahkimani
@zablonorina1
What is it with these people body shaming Kanze Dena (and others)? Do they have nothing better to do than to humiliate, mock and stigmatize people?