Good morning, here’s a photo from June 1981 of some of the original contributors to This Bridge Called My Back

niche kenyan gripe - I haaaate haaaaaaate Jua Kali's verse on "Usimpe Roho"

#UPDATE Two protesters died from gunshot wounds and at least eight were injured in a town outside Nairobi on Wednesday as demonstrators marked one year since mass anti-government protests in Kenya, a hospital official told AFP ➡️ u.afp.com/Sxmo

who said this? (they are so right) "Any human-made system can be resisted and changed by humans"

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of anti-finance bill protests and the police killings of protesters in #Kenya. These are the names of those who were killed - all killed by the police. Yet senior government officials have spent the whole day warning protesters to “maintain peace”.

“Our struggle hasn’t ended, and the lines have now clearly been drawn: on one side, there is the political elite who would rather have the country burn just to feel warm but, on the other side, there is us who hope for a better future for ourselves” - Dennis Mugaa

fighting for my life (capitalism) trying to keep it together during this meeting - all I want to do is scroll and weep!

“may we resist despair!”

you can't kill us and lead us - 🇰🇪

"You can't be about the work of wellbeing unless you're about the work of building the world in which that wellbeing is possible." - Tasha Golden June 25th 🇰🇪 💔 #June25 #NowIsTheTime #Standup #SilenceKills #KENYAIsOurHome #Kenya

Former Chief Justice David Maraga joins protesters in Nairobi CBD for the first June 25 protest anniversary

#RutoMustGo 🇰🇪

can't wait to get into this! thanks @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social 🕺🏾🌸

thrilled.grateful hits play on shaboozey: 🎶good news 🎶 See y’all in the next one 🎄🎊

There are a handful of corporate brands that are just in their own level of transparently unethical. McKinsey is one of those. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

doechii’s tiny desk! hello!! Masterpiece- Joy Joy

How a Ugandan opposition leader disappeared in Kenya and ended up in military court

didn’t get it but I’ll be thinking of it for months!

went vinyl crate digging at *that* spot in nairobi and the prices are atrocious!!! I don’t how people can shop there regularly but let me not pocket watch y’all - whew

7 years ❤️ we miss you everyday

Just a reminder that if you buy Refaat's new book If I Must Die thru @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social all proceeds will be donated to the Sameer Project to support displaced Palestinians in the south of Gz: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

Mastercard branded the rift valley view point???!!! Is that allowed???

and that’s a wrap! Fully in the “let’s revisit in January” season!

Frantz Fanon died on December 6, 1961, at the age of 36.

i'm just over here processing that there is such a thing as a scholar of contract killing

I went on a temple tour in Bangkok, and I could hear Jamaica Kincaid’s “Ugly Tourist Essay” the whole time at the back of my mind.🫣😂😭

The Eldoret High Court has convicted Jackton Odhiambo for the murder of LGBTQ activist Edwin Kiptoo, alias Chiloba, sentencing is set for December 16, 2024

Housemate convicted of murdering Kenyan LGBTQ+ activist Edwin Chiloba

where two or three (Kenyan) men are gathered misogyny is there among them 🙄

your forties is when you say no thank you, i've already learned all the slang i will use until i die.

I’ve forgotten how to be a human - someone just asked for my number and I said as I gave it to them : but don’t call or text me

when people get the mic and tell us they will just summarize since we don’t have time but now we’ve been listening to him for 15 mins. Nice

I made the #dazed100 list @dazeddigital.com 🤍

people texting to ask me what time I’m going for dinner - baibeee I am already in my pajamas

look at these chonks!!! 🦛

The Empire Strikes Back (LP soundtrack, 1980). Vinyl soundtrack with a killer 10 page booklet. Music by John Williams.

We have to stop thinking that what affects children won’t affect us. It always has and it always will. We could change the whole world—no hyperbole—by truly putting the welfare of children first, with all the considerations of their full human rights.

welp - this hotel tried to give preferential treatment to my white colleague- now we are all in the good rooms because I raised hell and he supported me - great teamwork - such shameless behavior

also, it’s just a shitty piece altogether. it’s poorly constructed, devoid of the human touch. AI “art” isn’t worth the strain on the power grid, nor is it worth the usage of water.

bless that 3pm energy spike

kenya power please. what is this behavior

The mother of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, Dr. Laila Soueif, has been on hunger strike since September 30 when authorities failed to release Alaa despite the completion of his prison term. Folks in DC will join her in solidarity by selecting a 24-hr period between December 2 and 7.

I’m so happy! My @doitlikedua.bsky.social vinyl has finally arrived 🥹

Today's quick update [Nov 30]: - RSF shelling and SAF airstrikes continue in Elfashir, including RSF shelling on Naivasha Market for the second consecutive day. - 20 people have died of malnutrition in the Daressalam area of Omdurman, according to local ERR. #KeepEyesOnSudan

I'll never stop being amazed by humans' ability to get together and fight back, support each other, organize relief/aid/etc from the ground up, when they're in the worst, most tragic situations imaginable... PLEASE SUPPORT THE SUDAN SOLIDARITY COLLECTIVE⬇️

I watch “Grand Designs” to re-up on optimism- what do you mean you don’t have the budget to convert this pre-war water tower into a five bedroom energy efficient home for your family so you’ll do most of the work yourself?