Y. A. Owuor
@AdhiamboKE
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Author (Dust, Dragonfly Sea, etc.) 🇰🇪 roots: Swahili Sea citizen. Witness. Would-be Pastoralist. Wilderness. Africa | Peace. Pax. Kwe. Amani.
Global Majority Pluriverse.
Joined September 2013
Germany’s Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg has announced plans to launch an academic exchange program in honor of Raila Odinga
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Such patriotic lions then. So many whose lives have been squandered for loving this country. So many unanswered questions. So many things still to be told.
The Untold Story of MP George Justus Morara and the Encounter That Changed History George Justus Morar was born in 1936 in the small village of Nyakeore in West Mugirango, now part of Nyamira County. Morara attended Sironga and Kamagambo primary schools before joining Kisii
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Co-Kenyans, wa Nairobi, me, I'm not hating. Asking roho safi. Others are seeing it too. (Go to Facebook). Let me bring it here: Is there some crisis in the West that's feeding this influx of Occi-migrants? @UNmigration (& don't bring that investor/expat crap here. We'll fight.)
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Like @DavidHundeyin says, Africans are the only people at war who don't know they are at war. And the battleground is education and Africans still don't get it. Dear Africans: when you see people from other continents with machines and skills, you think that's all there is
We need technical schools like this in Nigeria. Enough of the theory without applicable skills.
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It has emerged that in its latest mission to Kenya early this month (see quoted tweet), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) took issue with the US$/Kes exchange rate. According to the KRA Chairman, the Fund argued that the exchange rate is "too stable" & is impairing "monetary
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded its mission to Kenya. IMF's team will now return to Washington, D.C. to further its technical work & discussions with Kenya's authorities will continue during the Annual Meetings kicking off next week. IMF says the policy
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How do you debunk and deconstruct Ted Cruz when he embarks on his latest geopolitical fishing expedition? You don't. You just leave him to keep talking until he hangs himself with his own mouth. Because he always does. https://t.co/rzKslUB2m9
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In 2023, after losing my mum to a brutal cancer, I went to Kenya broken 😔, and found healing in the LOVE and warmth of its people. What was meant to be 3 weeks became 7 months, and this reggae song was born. The energy, the spirit, the kindness, it all felt like HOME. Every
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..@magicalkenya , a brother, @SyreWorld_ZW has done 65% of your work for you with this gorgeous love anthem.
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They borrow loan Squander it Create no jobs for you Mess the economy up Inflate prices Ask you to bring tax from the job you created for yourself so they can pay off the loan that was of no benefit to you
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The Land Bill 2024: How Ruto’s New Law Threatens Kenya’s Sovereignty and Soul By Prof. @GNaituli President William Ruto’s signing of the Land Bill 2024 into law marks one of the most consequential and dangerous policy shifts in Kenya’s post-independence history. Behind the
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A governing system grounded in UbuNtu, harmony with self, family, community and Nature is the only system that will work for Afrikans. The Royal system of governance led by Royals who understand and live by the laws governing the Universe 👏🏿👏🏿🕯️🙇🏾♂️🙇🏾♂️🪷. Ah Mvikelikazi
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The Acholi from Uganda arrived to give their tribute and honour Baba. Loved far and wide. RIP Tinga.
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Luos from Uganda's Gulu District, who arrived yesterday for Baba’s burial and were scheduled to perform a traditional funeral dance, finally had their moment today at Enigma's grave in Kang’o Ka Jaramogi today. Their performance was postponed yesterday due to a tight program.
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Man had conscience!
Learning from here that Jaramogi and Jomo fell out because Jomo's greedy ass refused to give land back to Kikuyus post independence was interesting 😭
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The colonizers noticed that Jaramogi was intelligent and well-positioned to become Kenya’s President. Out of curiosity, they asked him why he was turning down the offer.
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To remember.
Today in Mbololo, I had the great fortune of meeting Mzee John Mwavuda, my prison guard during my detention period in Manyani maximum prison. John was a special man, kind enough to smuggle in pieces of toilet and scrap paper that I would then write letters to my loved ones on.
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No curriculum ever prepared us for a Kenya without Raila Amolo Odinga. No political science book, no civic class, no generation of leaders rehearsed for this vacuum. And that alone great people, is enough to fracture a republic like ours. One that has for decades leaned, argued,
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