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@JahaziJournal1
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Querying for my debut novel.
I've been in a meeting where I stood up and served myself tea (the only woman there), then some dude asked me to also serve him.
Me: Why?
Him: Because even at home our wives serve us tea!
Me: {Looking around} I don't see them here?
I once sat on a board with 1 other woman. The men, fellow board members, expected us to get up serve them the tea & snacks. After pretending not to hear this request several times, they stopped asking.🤣
Don’t expect/ask for household privileges from random women in the workplace
Look man. Please. To all our continental Brethren. When you see headlines saying "Kenya" has done shit like this, please extend us grace by remembering it means "Kenyan politicians", not necessarily Kenyan people.
Many of us ARE WITH South Africa on this case. Viva SA!! Viva!!
Every time I look at this photo by
@festolang
I wonder what these four were thinking at this exact moment: their murdered compatriot at their feet, chaos, teargas, bullets, all whizzing around them, and here they stood, despite the horror, holding the Kenyan flag and raw courage.
Kasmuel Mcoure: We will occupy every single week every single ministry until we sort out this mess. We will continue saying Ruto must go and this will be his entire government if they do not step up or shape up we will show them out
#CitizenMondayReport
@TrevorOmbija
One of the innocent boys shot and killed at age 16 in Eldoret was a budding footballer, and he had a blistering and spectacular pace. Your shoot to kill order unalived him. All this blood is on your hands.
What a spectacular and blistering performance by Faith Kipyegon, the multiple Olympics and World 1,500 metres Champion, breaking her own record by winning the 8th leg of the Diamond League in Paris, clocking 3 minutes, 49.04 seconds. Kipyegon's exemplary show displays the array
You're very unserious. 53% of the people in your County have no access to basic drinking water and you're here telling us about tourism??? 30% under 5 mortality rate and 23% under 5 kids with stunted growth na mambo ni tourism? Wacha mchezo mama wewe 🚮🚮🚮
Kwale Governor Fatuma Achani has urged Generation Z to call off their weekly protests against the anti-finance bill as it is affecting the tourism economy, particularly in Kwale, Kenya's top tourist destination.
KAZI GANI YA WAVULANA when 40 of the 41 young people killed were young men, and till now, you have not come out to publicly support them as part of your "kazi ya wavulana"? What have you done with the 2Billion allocated illegally to your office since 2022??? WTF?
Dorcas Rigathi: Kama vile wananchi wamesema hawataki Second Lady awe na budget ni sawa, lakini kazi ya wavulana sitawacha. That is a vision and passion I have for the boy child. I cannot stop because I started even before I was in office
Elephant mom carries the body of her dead calf around for days. The photos were taken at Namibia’s Twyfelfontein Country Lodge by tour guide Philip Shilongo 1/2
📸Twyfelfontein Country Lodge
The family and friends of Emmanuel Mukuria Kamau have been looking for their son since Maandamano za 25June.
He is not in any hospitals or mortuaries . His family reached out & asked if we could amplify his disappearance.
I can only hope he is found and alive.
#FindEmmanuel
When Larry Madowo tweeted "I'm here to bear witness", it was a powerful statement. Because without a cloud of witnesses we get gaslit into imagining nothing serious happened.
To bear witness is to record the story for posterity. June 25th 2024 will never be forgotten.
RECEIPTS: A CNN review found that Kenyan police violated their own rules for the use of force in protests outside Parliament. Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei personally led the operation.
It was the deadliest day for a single demonstration. Who killed these protesters?
@jcniala
Never ever! One, that is the proverbial allowing of a camel into your tent, and two, its just bad manners for men to demand service from women at the workplace as if it was their house. Such bad manners.
Anyway. I'll personally never ever forget the sight of blood and brains on the tarmac in Nairobi Central Business District on 25th June 2024. That, for me, will remain the moment that turned everything in me. Never forget. Never forget.
This incident is heartbreaking 😢. A hotel worker at Alisa Hotel in Accra, Ghana, attempted this after I arrived there at 2am, completely wiped out after delays that had me on transit for almost 24 hours. I remember falling into bed, then waking up to hear him attempting to enter
It’s high time I told my horrible experience in Zanzibar as a young solo female traveler.
This incident happened a year ago in April of 2021 but I haven’t been able to talk about it cause I’ve been in therapy for a year to heal from the psychological trauma as this experience
I've retweeted this but in all honesty - my Young Folk, GenZs - get those ID cards starting tomorrow. If we need to come together to create a fund to support people to do this, then let's do it immediately.
GET THAT IDENTITY CARD IMMEDIATELY. Endea ID. Do it.
I had a friend call me to ask me "eish hata huwezi nipigia kunijulia hali" and tears sprung to my eyes. I've been terribly overwhelmed and exhausted, I've not even called my mother in days. Life is tough. Saa ziingine be gentle. We are swimming in lava and just trying to breathe.
I will say this with the risk of being slapped here- nimetoka hiyo Space. With all due respect, you cannot be egging people to storm SH tomorrow from the safety of a country that is in a different time zone half a world away. We cannot send more of us to a certain, needless death
WHY??? Why disrupt our lives to this extent?? You have our NHIF data, just transfer it seamlessly, then register new users who may be interested? Why are you government of Kenya so damn mediocre???
Dear Parents of White Star Group of Schools, Primary and Pre-primary: I hope you get back your children, who probably went somewhere for Drama Festivals, in one piece, alive and whole. Because the drivers are out here wilding like maniacs. The speeds and reckless overtaking
Hey
@ntvkenya
why was this person who has a pending murder case in your studios? Are you not aware that this is how you help to sanitize and normalize criminality??? There was no one else to give views until this one has his day in court??? Seriously?
“Ninatarajia Rais Ruto atazungumzia mikakati ya serikali kuleta usalama katika maeneo ya Bonde la Ufa; polisi na raia wanauawa kama kuku” - Mbunge Didmus Barasa atao kauli.
#NTVSasa
@bugufatuma
I think by now we're all agreed that these COP meetings are nothing but billionaires and their puppets cosplaying care for the environment while sealing deals on how to exploit and exterminate othered peoples and our resources using vague terms such as carbon credits and the like
The problem with Kenya in one photo - no women, no youth, no people with disabilities, nobody from any margins. Just able-bodied, rich, old, corrupt, overstuffed men messing everything up for all of us.
So, there seems to be an escalating security situation in this city. Two of my colleagues have tonight at 7:30 witnessed a violent robbery on that stretch between Railways and Huduma Centre on Haile Selassie Avenue. I'm hearing of more hotspots across Nairobi - KCA on Thika Road
Undergoing a minor surgical procedure under Jacob Kengere Ombogo and Dr Patrick Musyoki at Makueni County Referral Hospital,Wote.
Thank you our healthcare workers for the dedicated health services offered to our residents.
#UHCMakueniCare
Hear me out: banning Boda Boda is not a solution. Bodas help us navigate a clogged city, help put food on many tables. I've met a proud Boda guy who had a son joining campus off the sweat of his bike, a Bajaj Boxer. In this tough economy, they keep kids in school and necessary
I applaud all the women who marched today
#TotalShutDownKE
across the country. And the many who also cheered from home, or work, or couldn't make it physically (some even staying away under threat of violence if they came). Our voices have been heard. Viva! 💪🏽💪🏽
Imagine a man coming out here to say he will kill you for eating pizza he has bought, of his own free will, not under the nozzle of any gun or anything - and bearing in mind even artisan/specialty pizza rarely goes above 2k range.
A man threatens to kill women over pizza.
Njeri, Njeri, Njeri wa Migwi! I salute you and
@usikimye
and all the other women and organizations fighting this today. Really, we don't give you enough flowers, but here are some 🌺🌻🌹🌼🌸💐🪷🪻. You girlies and baddies rock!!!
So.
The KCC Gold crown lactose free milk is disappearing from supermarket shelves.
Guess what is replacing it?
Brookside lactose free milk. 200bob for the one litre pack.😤😡
Listen. This is how I'm going to go completely milk-free. Coz this family sasa wamezidi haki 🙄😡
Let me say this: I know that last night, Mama & Baba Benson and Emmanuel sat in their house and wondered why their sons were brutally murdered by police for a curfew that is now over, just like that. The graves inside their compound are reminder of the injustice of that curfew.
My heart is so heavy. Police have blocked roads and as night falls, I'm hearing nothing but a barrage of gunshots from the Githurai side across the highway. Is this the plan? Use cover of darkness to kill??? These are protestors walking home because there's no transport!!!
So. This one was in her house, with her lover - and she is dead. What will we warn women about here? Not to live with their men lovers? Because we're telling them if they don't meet men in AirBnBs they will not be killed.
Nonsense on stilts. People in this city wake up at 3am to start hustling, but they're still poor.
Some artists work till 4am, wake up at 10am and they have more money than the 3am hustler.
Poverty is not a state of mind. It is a construct of Capitalism. Wacha kutudanganya.
Your annual reminder that minimum wage in Kenya is KES 13,572.
Ideally, you should be paying all your workers ABOVE this figure, that is, your Nannies, Watch Guards, Landscapers, Domestic Managers, Shop Attendants. And if you do, it doesn't make you a hero, just compliant.
The privatization bid has everyone concerned about the sale of Kenya Seed, which is really a huge red flag.
A second red flag we should all be shouting about is the sale of Kenya Literature Bureau. KLB publishes school books. Privatising one of the key sources of books meant
Heheee. This new Demonstration Bill is saying no masks, no balaclavas to protect you from tear gas, no placards or chants or singing.
In short, no demonstrations or picketing.
No we can't allow this.
I'm already seeing people refer to incoming President of Tanzania as "Mama Samia Suluhu".
Please continue referring to her as "Mama" only if you ever called the late Magufuli "Baba Pombe".
Otherwise, she is simply Samia Suluhu, or President Suluhu.
I didn't want to comment on this yesterday.
Today I can.
This is just so hateful. This is raw hatred. The continued reduction of women into animals is not new, but this hatred is next level. As is the lack of consequence. This man said this knowing he could.
Congratulations!!!!
I'd love to read your Thesis. Do you have a link to it? Seems to be missing from the institution's website.
Please also add the Doctorate for whimst you have graduated - which subject areas?
Thank you!
This sunset has a lot of sadness. Loud, explosive bangs is all we can hear.
Mwene Nyaga, come to our aid tonight and protect us from murder, rape, torture and premature deaths.
Please note: they're not pleading on behalf of Kenyan people, they are pleading on their own behalf because the ground is becoming hostile to them.
🚮🚮🚮
The water crisis in Europe (all major rivers like Danube, Loire, etc have dried up and all that's left are dust and mud puddles in some places) should make us sit up with some terror. Because we know where they will come next for their water. Pay attention!
These have NEVER BEEN anti-government protests please
@ntvkenya
. I don't know how many times we need to tell you this. These were anti-corruption, anti-oppression and pro-good governance and pro-people protests.
We are in danger of this pathology. Will the poor be told to pray for clean water when the government has the power and resources to purify that water? Will the sick be asked to pray for healing when govt has power to provide UHC? This kind of theocracy is dangerous.
Fuck NO. Look at this picture and ask yourself if this is not perpetuating exactly what GenZ is vehemently rejecting: no women, no persons with disability, no intersectionality - just well-off-looking men in suits, clean shaven (hata sisi Rasta hatuko). FUCK NO!
Makosa aside, we need to un-normalize older professionals dressing down, humiliating and abusing younger ones. And with such relish. Magistrate should have ended the meeting, asked everyone to exit except the young lawyer, and spoken to her alone. Hata angemsomea ni sawa
Silly!!!!!!
Where were these women during the
@BBCAfrica
exposé on poor women in the Finlay tea fields being raped repeatedly and infected with HIV? Why didn't they chant "hatutaki" to underage girls in the tea estates being raped and violated by rogue Unilever operatives? 🚮
Women attending the International Women's Day celebrations at KICC have resoundingly rejected the recent ruling by the Supreme Court on LGBTQ. They chanted 'Hatutaki!', translating to we don't want.
There's nothing wrong with kuoga na kurudi soko fast. Nothing at all.
But sometimes, it's not really a flex.
The question becomes, umeoga vizuri? Plus, ni soko gani hii umerudi? And three, umerudi soko kama? You could be the market madman. Yes.
May I also remind us that the
#KianjokomaBrothers
are yet to receive their justice. Their parents and siblings remain in absolute anguish over their brutal murders.
Where is justice for these two innocent young men, cut down just as they were beginning to live?
Be VERY CAREFUL when women start to use their pain, tears and words with such intensity after witnessing how you're killing their children. Be warned. Words have intense power, especially the words of mothers whose children have been lost to violence. Be warned!
19 kids are dead in Kakamega.
19 kids are dead in Kakamega.
19 kids are dead in Kakamega.
19 kids are dead in Kakamega.
19 kids are dead in Kakamega.
19 kids are dead in Kakamega.
19 kids are dead in Kakamega.
19 kids are dead in Kakamega.
The parents of these kids mourn.
Dear Kenyan drivers with kids:
Please. Please. Buy a car seat AND use it. Please. Tafadhali.
Driving with your child dangling willy-nilly in the car will come to bring you untold grief. Strap your toddler down and let them be safe.
And use your seat belt too.
The irony of this in a post-truth world is this: that
@BBCAfrica
not finding evidence is NOT proof that nothing happened, and that in putting this out, the BBC itself could as well have been an active misinformation voice, itself.
That's the irony.
@arega_michael
Nonsense. Empathy is me serving a male colleague of sound mind and able-bodied tea at the office??? Does HE lose anything by serving himself? This is bullshit.
I'm going to need spiritually discerning Kenyans to take up arms and go to the spiritual frontline. The time has come. It is the dreamer who was led to the bodies in that quarry. It is the seers, dreamers and spiritual warriors who will have to "see" before it attacks the natural
Listen, these incidents are far too many in far too many hotels. Even "good hotels" do this. The solution isn't telling women not to travel alone. It is to clamp down on these rapists and thieves.
All fans of:
Grey's Anatomy
New Amsterdam
House MD
The Good Doctor
Mumbai Diaries
Chicago Med
ER (wazee 😂)
Scrubs
CSI (zote)
The Resident
Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman (wazee zaidi! 🤣)
Y'all are Doctors today. Let's support
#OccupyMOH
#OccupyKenya
Tweet. Congregate. Space. Zote
Madam CJ, please be serious with these utterances. Yes, parents in the upper classes can be litigious, but we have children who have been MURDERED by rogue teachers for petty issues such as hair!
Can we revisit this statement with context please!!
Ugali is meant to be a canvas upon which other things give it life and movement - milk, eggs, meats, mboga, soup, name it. It's purposely bland for that purpose.
"Mostly during the lunch hours, people eat ugali which is basically corn-flour that is boiled. It doesn't really have any taste and you eat it just to fill up," one foreigner noted.
@The_Nanuekpere
Exactly! And the way he said it ati "our wives", dude, we are not in your house, or mine, we are in the office, and we are colleagues. This is not the place to start asserting your manhood like you're in your house?
💔💔💔💔💔💔 aii watu wangu, this pain is too much. I remember him, just dancing outside parliament. Nothing else. Just dancing and peacefully demonstrating. Then he was shot dead by the police. He hadn't even reach the age of 26. Waah, guys, this is too much!
This is how you create the projects.
Will water be pumped up 30 floors? With unstable power, who will walk up to 25th floor with kids and shopping, then walk back down to take kids to school? In the event of fire? Do we have fire trucks with 30th floor evac capacity?
Dear God!
"I am the commander-in-chief. In Eastleigh, previously you could not build more than a 12-storey building, but I have now declared that you can build up to a 25- or 30-storey building," President Ruto.
Good morning Prof. Here is
@FarahMaalimM
saying he would "slaughter 5000" youths daily, and he's not under arrest for incitement and hate speech - but the same innocent GenZs are being abducted for writing "Ruto Must Go" online, being told THAT is incitement.
@KindikiKithure
eeh?
Farah Maalim: If I was the Kenyan President, I would have slaughtered 5000 Gen Zs daily.
This Al Shabaab sympathizer must be called out. He is our biggest public enemy number 6. Shame on you Farah.
#OccupyCBDTuesday
The worst Covid19 experience for ALL OF US is that Covid19 funds were misappropriated instead of expanding healthcare for citizens. So we are dying in matatus, parking lots of hospitals, and at home because we CANNOT AFFORD HEALTH CARE BILLS IN THIS COUNTRY.
From June 2020, the 13kg gas was at an expensive but steady 2150/-.
Until April 2021 when it went up by 100/- to 2250/-.
By August 2021, it was going for 2610/-!!!
October 2021 it was as 2700/-
Today I've bought it at 2950/-
Honestly. How are we surviving in this MF economy?
I don't know what is happening here - but so many sirens, choppers flying overhead, gunshots, explosions galore all over the place.
Wadau on ground, what is happening in Githurai 44/45 and Mirema sides? The commotion here is for the ages, even the kids are scared by the din 😟😟
Imagine stealing so much money in a country where many poor folk cannot afford to buy a whole pack of kiberiti, wacha hata unga. And someone here will say she uses tampons, while another will say amechoka kupea watu grace. Honestly. Which country is this people are such satans?
The people seeking "clarification" over Michael Joseph's comment about Collymore having been a "white man in a black body" or whatever- you need to come to my class on Politics of the Body.
There's no mistaking the "intent" of that racist statement. There's no clarification.
@lorraine_pilime
I've just tweeted about my experience at Alisa Hotel in Accra, Ghana.
This was my TripAdvisor review and response of management. It's a while back, but hope this warns others.
I don't know what is happening here - but so many sirens, choppers flying overhead, gunshots, explosions galore all over the place.
Wadau on ground, what is happening in Githurai 44/45 and Mirema sides? The commotion here is for the ages, even the kids are scared by the din 😟😟
I know many women who have hidden cancer from their husbands, did chemo, lost hair, told the husbands they were just "feeling a bit off" and the men did not even realize their wives were going through cancer. Because to tell him would lead to abandonment.
My mother called me the other day, and then casually said "you don't recall, but I kept tabs on all the jobs and scholarships you applied for after university, and I stopped counting at 200". And I had a First Class. This country has been killing us for a long time 😪😓
Advise (admittedly unsolicited) for Kenyan PhD students, which I have said here numerous times before. Your "effects of", "influence of" studies are doing you a total disservice and denying you regional and international opportunities. There's NOTHING innovative about starting
All those involved in this atrocity have unleashed a terrible sequence of events.
This was too low. This is elder abuse. It is desecration of the body.
And it will not be without consequence.
And yet just this afternoon I found unga ngano going for 169/- at Carrefour. 1kg blue band is up to 420/-. And 65 out of every 100 bob is going to pay loans.
These were all lies. As are the ones being told today. Absolute nonsense.
SHAME ON YOU GOK!!! Terrorizing parents who ONLY want their kids to stop dying in schools from unsafe foods? This is how you deal with parents who don't want their kids back in body bags? Would Pres Ruto and Rachel accept this kind of treatment for their kids??? This is shameful!
Earlier Today: Police use teargas to disperse parents of Mukumu Girls High School student after they demanded that the school destroys cereals, which they claim are not fit for consumption, in the store before students resume learning next week.
I really don't like the selective history. The first term of Jubilee was not scandal-free!! Come on!! We were all here!!! From Eurobond to SGR tenders, to Kimwarer, to NYS!!! DP was present in that government, and to sanitise him like this is not right. Let's be honest.
Grade 8 kids have joined class today, only to be told what? Guess?
"The curriculum design for JSS Grade 8 has not yet been released, it will come out end of January". In the meantime watang'ethia tu.
I really, really DETEST this govt and how they take education so lightly! 🤬
So Mama DJ Evolve passed on 💔💔and the person who shot her son is on the socials calling her "mum"..."we grew so close".
Bila chills.
People are just rough.
I see the "many of us were in abusive schools but we didn't burn them down".
And you think this generation is cowardly like you? 😂😂😂😂.
You think they will accept that slavery and servitude after watching it turn you into an indecisive, insecure, self-loathing shadow of your
Forcing folk to buy tokens via eCitizen, which takes a 50 shilling mandatory processing fee, would be a disaster. What happens when a person buying tokens only has 50 bob? That is the processing fee!
Plus - that extra 50 bob is, to me, another way of just eating people's sweat.
17 CEOs of State agencies including KRA, Kenya Power, KNH, Kenya Railways summoned to explain their non-compliance with a presidential directive on payment for services through eCitizen.
"Naskia some bodies from Mai mahiu, cars and other debris have been washed up to 50km away and are lying exposed now for 3 days 😳. Children are being kept indoors so that they don't see the bodies" - from a contact.
This is how dire things could be out there! How horrific!
Good morning
@KarauriR
. The President said he's watching you to see how you vote on that punitive Bill. So are we Kasarani voters. We did our part on public engagement on the bill. We did our part voting for you. We are watching to see if you're with us, or the Oppressor.
Unajua. We must see this as the criminal enterprise called the Police admitting in open court that they do consider, and routinely do carry out, extrajudicial "revenge". This is SERIOUS. This is serious. Our Police are a rogue, criminal enterprise. A Mafia.
As someone who studied abroad, I can attest to the fact that those were my loneliest days, filled with insomnia and a longing for home. Every time I saw the Kenyan flag on the wing of
@KenyaAirways
at the airport, my heart would burst and send tears to my eyes.