Wambui K. Collymore
@WambuiKamiru
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So grateful to many vision believers and collaborators who have made my work possible. 🌻🌻Here is an interview that talks about art installations on the African continent:
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I am overwhelmed by all the love and beautiful messages I have been receiving from you all here. It is a true testament to the character of the special man I was lucky to love. I can't respond to all your messages but know that I have read and received your warmth. Thank you.
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4 years today, you made me, Mrs. C. Thank you for always being in my corner, Mr. C. 💗💗
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Happy birthday Mr. Collymore, 😂😂😂 I still laugh at your attempts to escape our selfies. 💓💓💓
@bobcollymore
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Mr. C., I miss being your personal paparazzi for our failed selfies. 6 months, 13 days, 22hrs 20mins since I last saw you. Happy Birthday
@bobcollymore
I continue to love you.
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Since 2016 when my name first appeared in press concerning my private life, I have done some interviews and turned down alot more than I have accepted. Often my interviews are focused on the work I do in the hope that it educates and empowers others.
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My grandmother used to say that the problem with telling a lie is that you soon have to tell another lie to cover up the first lie. Soon, it becomes your identity and even you begin to believe your own lies. Then there is no difference between yourself and the village madman.
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"You can judge a society by how it treats women."
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Anyone have a dove we can send out into 2021 or shall we just start building an ark?
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21 more days and no real end in sight. A couple of things to remember (notes borrowed from experience):
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You know what is profound? Hardworking and prolific artists. A drive from Nairobi to Naivasha only on
@sautisol
music. No repeat, no pause and I didn't even get to play ALL their songs. I am in awe of this bunch of artists.
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Ukikutana na huyu dere wa Ngong Stage, msalimie. Tell him thank you for making my day. 😊
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This is precisely why we need to stop using the words, "support art." Art is made to be bought, unless the artist themself offers to do it for free. Artists live on the money their art makes. Refusing to buy art actually kills the industry. Exposure is refusing to buy art.
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Do they not know that Kenya runs through your blood? You continue to do us all proud Hanifa. May you be blessed 1000x over.
Haha
@OleItumbi
is sending his people using Uganda numbers to threaten me. Mimi ndio mnataka kutishia? Haha and this looks manufactured. Yikes
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Kibe. Please tukutane nyuma ya tent, pris. This is what is wrong with our society. Money does not determine the value of your respect. Respect is a basic human right and it does not matter how much is in your pocket.
Imagine if Wambui Collymore is treated this way at
@PeponiHotel
imagine you with your 2 shillings?
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Tina here is not wrong about
@PeponiHotel
a few years ago, I booked a trip to Shela & decided to have lunch on the terrace. When I suggested to my host that I was planning to go there, she was hesitant but would'nt explain why. Nonetheless, I sat at an empty table on the terrace.
I want to share an unpleasant and racist experience that my husband and I had at
@PeponiHotel
in Lamu earlier this week. Black people being treated with utmost disrespect in our own country. When will this end?
@magicalkenya
#SomeoneTellPeponiLamu
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It is not uncommon for a bank to loan you money because the collateral you offer is very attractive. Sometimes banks loan you money when they know you can't repay the loan because they want that collateral. A bank giving you a loan does not mean you are special.
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I think it is fair to say that anyone trying to make any of this tribal must be reported to the relevant social media platform.
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Join us on Wednesday! Also please feel free to use
#CelebratingBob
to post your thoughts, videos and/or messages. 🖤🖤🖤
Join us as we are
#CelebratingBob
through memories and music this Wednesday July 1st 2020 7pm EAT.
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*Men.* If a cough lasts more than 7 days, go see a doctor. If something just doesn't feel right about your body, go see a doctor. Night sweats, go see a doctor. There is nothing manly about ignoring symptoms that your body is not well.
#WorldCancerDay2020
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For the first time ever
@SafaricomPLC
has got my birthday right! (This story has long context 😊). Thank you for the bundles!!!
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Hata wyd sikupata.
lakini if your your ex hasn't used this situation to check on you . lmao, they've moved on kabisa. move on too.
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Please take care of your employees. Do not expect them to risk their lives tomorrow.
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Stop telling people this.
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So I am curious. Are their mythical creatures/monsters in your cultures?
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Something had not been sitting right with my spirit from
#KOT
and other Africans on the protests in America. Somehow folks have forgotten that less that 60 years ago we were in the same position on the African continent and Civil Rights leaders joined us in war.
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In 2009, my visionary husband
@bobcollymore
came home and announced that he and
@michaelj2
would build the best school in Africa. I thought he was talking about a five-year goal. Alittle over six months later
@SafaricomFDN
broke ground for what would be the
@MPESAFdnAcademy
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When I was looking into getting a motorcycle Victor allowed me to test drive his. When I opened my gallery, Victor came to celebrate with a bunch of other bikers. When Bob died, Victor and other bikers came home to pay tribute. He was a gentle soul.
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Thank you for becoming family. 😊
One Year later, Our Captain's Spirit lives on through his Amazing wife,
@WambuiKamiru
and The BOYZ Club! Thanks for bringing us together, Wambui! We shall continue to keep
#CelebratingBob
@bharatthakrar
@Peter_Kenneth
@PatrickQuarcoo
@KCBGroup
@PSdxb
@xtiandela
@stivogichbwoy
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All the love from the universe. Whole. Splendid. Accepting. Embracing.
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I keep being asked about the art that I do. Here's a thread which may or may not unroll over the next few days:
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How do we turn our minds to the bigger issues that affect us? How do we stop from being distracted from the future we want as a nation? How do we harness our power as a people?
#RandomLateNightThoughts
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We also don't have much time to waste. I am not the news. The news is what we are leaving in the dark. Media can determine the future of our country everyday, on that front page by casting light into the dark. On just that one page, media can make or break us as a nation.
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Please stop hanging your artwork so high up on your walls. Please.
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I want to see change in my country. But it has to start with media, the very powerful source of infomation that unlike alot of other institutions, we still have some level of trust in.
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And sometimes I am grateful for the reminder to live this moment. This. Not 2 mins ago, not 2 mins from now. Because life continues to unfold beautifully even as I am not sure where my next breath comes from. Ase Oooo.
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My argument has always been that my personal life is not news worthy.
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This Saturday, join
@MuseumSociety
at
@MuthaigaC
for a conversation on collecting art. Super excited about this particular event. See you there!!
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As I understand it, the job of media is to inform, educate and empower. This is the essence of free press - to enhance critical thought and then to drive positive change.
#StoriesIWantToRead
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Congratulations
@apourredon
of
@meditect
on winning The Bob Collymore Tech for Good 2019 Prize at the 2019 Summit of Minds in Chamonix! The award is sponsored by
@SocieteGenerale
and honors business solutions that solve social problems.
#Business4Good
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Tonight, I do that thing again:
#ArtistConversations
with
@EvansMbugua_on
on IGLive
@wambuikamiru
at 7pm EAT.
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It's time that the media handed power back to the people. It can only do so if it provides content that informs, educates and empowers. The media can raise consciousness, can fullfil the greatest role in redirecting our country from the bleak future that we are hurrying toward.
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Lexus Crowns First-Ever African Winner for Its Prestigious Annual Design Award.
#StoriesIWantToRead
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And just like that
@bobcollymore
was published in a journal celebrating and mapping out 50 years of banking in Kenya. Thank you
@wgkantai
for getting this to me.
#BCFoundKenya
@BCfoundKenya
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Most of all be gentle on yourself. If you fight against yourself, you will break yourself. This can only unfold positively if you take each day as it comes. If need be each hour.
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Since the focus is on me again and I still don't consider myself newsworthy, here are a couple of stories that I wish were national news. These are stories, I would like to see on the front page:
#StoriesIWantToRead
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Get something living in your space. Even a plant will do, something you can nurture so that you can refocus.
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Kenyans are capable of radical change. Kenyans are capable of innovation and are of great resilience. The media should not waste us by having us believe that we have nothing of substance that is newsworthy.
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Choose music for the day and play it right from the minute you wake up. It will set your mood.
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"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears...The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." - The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
#KahlilGibran
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🚩🚩🚩 If you or your child is on montelukast, please see recent research that links it to suicide ideation and pituitary gland abnomalities.
Lots of doctors here prescribe it for asthma and allergies.
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Oh and wear a watch. It helps you keep track and stay mentally present in a very surprising way.
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You can either use your anger to drive you in the right direction or let someone use your anger to drive you in the direction they choose. Either way, you will be driven.
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Thank you to everyone who showed up. It really was something special. Shukran. 🙏🏾
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There was a time when newspapers spoke such truth to power that people read particular articles in secret. Folding the paper over so as not to reveal the questions that articles raised.
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"Your practices are harmful. You are pursuing profit over mental health."
Facebook: We will change our name!
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Women laughing and chatting is the sound of joy. It is profoundly better than the sound of women weeping.
#NotesOnAbsence
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Please check out this project I began about 2 years ago: - hoping to continue this in the coming year/post corona.
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I spent 21 years of my life angry before I realised we in the slums must lead change.
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Kenya-US free trade talks are under way: what Nairobi must get right from start.
#StoriesIWantToRead
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This applies for our lockdown but also for grief, trauma and burnout. Be kind to the body vessel and spirit that has carried you this far. Perharps it is time to let it rest and reset.
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"The media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided." - Manuel Castelles
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Starting the year with new work that has been in development for 5 years or so. Grief is a universal state of being. I hope this space offers room for contemplation.
#AllMyVenusDays
opens Saturday 5th Feb 2022. 🌹🌹🌹
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Get into a routine that marks the beginning of the day and the end of the day even if the inbetween bits are in shambles. Example:
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It is not by chance that media is called the 4th Estate. In lieu of a strong opposition, media really should be holding fort.
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Dedan Kimathi’s daughter arrested
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#ThatTimeICouldHaveMadeYouAToup
ée. May you one day look up into my selfies. Happy birthday
@bobcollymore
#SelfieFail
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Congratulations to
@SandaOjiambo
on your appointment as ED
@globalcompact
they picked a good one. I can't wait to see your actions to make this world a better place. Business for good was
@bobcollymore
's driving force and I know he is smiling warmly and raising a toast. Salute!
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We don't need exposure. We need investment in the arts.
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Whatever time you wake up, make your bed and shower.
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Also as a side thought. Folks be getting mad about Beyonce appropriating African culture. Haven't Africans been doing the same for a few decades now with African American culture? Perhaps we should be celebrating the similarities in just being Black and Proud?
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Plan to fence off Nairobi national park angers Maasai and conservationists
#StoriesIWantToRead
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PSA: Before October comes through, for those looking to deposit mattress cash somewhere, please buy art. This is a valuable and appreciating asset. Also it is just a good idea to buy art. (This message brought to you by KAAAAS).
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Before you sleep make yourself a hot cup of herbal tea (peppermint, chamomile, or fennel).
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Drink water. Hydrate. You are not moving as much so you will not get thirsty but hydrate to keep refreshed and to reduce the feeling of feeling "beat."
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Finally. Get some sun. I can't emphasise the importance of Vitamin D, enough. Even if it is not outside, sit in the light of sun.
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(Anyone else seeing mwakenya notes borrowed from our last election for that election)?
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Choose a regular activity for 1 or two days a week. It may be that you exercise, read a book but make that Mondays you... Tuesdays you...
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I am here for all the Kenyan humour and madness that will arise from 14 days of quarantine. Yaaaas!!
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@Asmali77
@JesseKenya
@PeponiHotel
What I am most sad about is that the locals have accepted it. We let it happen. Those people who continue going despite knowing the context, *they* let it happen.
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One cannot fight water. It is formless and creative. It gives way to blows but in so doing, it collects in other places.
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Small businesses spring up in Kenya as citizens adapt to COVID-19 environment.
#StoriesIWantToRead
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Lean on the strength of the arts. There are a whole bunch of concerts online, not just in Kenya. Google them. Tune in.
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PSA: Have you googled your future Nairobi governor?
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