I think part of the reason we’re here as a country is because we participate in enabling behaviour. You have a problematic or troubled actor unasema “anakuanga hivyo tu” or “mpee muda ata badilika”and let things slide to keep the peace. 🧵

Teachers raped students. The other adults around them simply… didn’t do anything. It was so normal that for me, at our school, I never thought to tell my mum. It didn’t even register as a problem then. It wasn’t happening to me, I was “raised right” so who cares? Right?

Do you know how many unbroken chains of enabling that led to this president? To Peter Ayiro? To other bad actors? What is it about our culture that lets us be okay with being manipulated even when we notice it? Why don’t we protect each other by refusing harmful behaviours?

I’ve watched addictions, hurts and suicides build up over time. I’ve also been ignored and dismissed multiple times when I raised concerns during those build ups. I feel like I’m watching them again at national and institutional levels. Does anyone else feel this?

This is William Samoei Ruto, PhD ‘s legacy. Never forget !!

The Kenyan flag is lowered in sorrow more than it’s flown high as a symbol of pride. Once a national emblem and a symbol of hope now a funeral wreath of dreams cut short.

He started with the teargassing kids, now the kids are in tears after killing them 💔💔💔

Today is so heavy. It is so heavy. How do we even begin to move forward? How do the families who have lost loved ones so brutally and so inhumanely? Let us not forget. Let us not forget.

After attending the burial of 12 years old Bridgit, we got the chance to hand over the flag to her Mum and Dad. No parent should have to bury their child. It’s even worse when that child’s life is taken away by a bullet. We shall not relent in demanding justice for Bridgit. She

“We struggle not because it assures us of victory. We struggle because it assures us of an honorable and sane life.” ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

every so often I read this again to remind myself that not insane just 1000 cuts over and over Christine Mungai and Dan Aceda - this will always be evergreen theelephant.info/analysis/2019/…

Kenyans are just ... 👍👍👍

I believe in revolutions but I do not believe in revolutionaries. People are just people and most when pedestalized will inevitably disappoint if not become actual tyrants. The goal should be to build systems that work for the people and that don't need strongmen or heroes to run

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Very worrying trend of arrests and capital Offences charges.

It’s called compassion fatigue, it’s also part of a tyrant’s playbook, overwhelm them with sadness and sad news that it becomes the norm rather than abnormal.

Standing in solidarity with The People’s Watchman We’re presently standing guard with him at his office as the DCI KENYA officers are ransacking every corner of the office. #ActivistsAreNotTerrorists #ActivistsAreNotTerrorists #ActivistsAreNotTerorrists

Comrades, The People’s Watchman is now missing. We lost the DCI KENYA cars in traffic and when we got to the DCI headquarters on Kiambu road, we were told they’re not here. His whereabouts are now unknown. Let the DCI KENYA tell Kenyans where they’ve taken The People’s Watchman.

It is the use of scare tactics, constant harassment of The People’s Watchman and his family against the blindness to actual injustices perpetrated against him. The “coincidental” spread of misinformation about him and others at the same time. The weaponizing of the law. The pressure to