I get emotional every time I see this - "Since we met you people 500 years ago, look at us; we've given everything; you're still taking..."

It tears my heart to say that my father, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o passed away earlier today. I am me because of him in so many ways, as his child, scholar and writer. I love him - I am not sure what tomorrow will bring without him here. I think that is all I have to say for now.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o had a talent for kicking off a story. “Nyokabi called him.” - Weep Not, Child. “The two ridges lay side by side.” The River Between” “Mugo felt nervous.”- A Grain of Wheat. “They came for him that Sunday.” - Petals of Blood.

Most assistive robots live in labs. We want to change that. FEAST enables care recipients to personalize mealtime assistance in-the-wild, with minimal researcher intervention across diverse in-home scenarios. 🏆 Outstanding Paper & Systems Paper Finalist Robotics: Science and Systems 🧵1/8

Used to wonder why Conrad used to complain about gated Lavington public roads until I was recently told that they can't open the gate because it's past 8 PM, so go back. On a public road. Upper class Kenyans believe they are gods

Grilling Mamdani on whether uncountably infinite sets have a right to exist

Makerere became a business address for most lecturers to win grant by association. Students end up frustrated, a masters of 3 years, you finish in 5years because your research supervisor is busy chasing grants moving conference per conference using affiliation to Makerere as

This is Prof. Patrick Mangeni The only professor of Theatre at Makerere University . He turned 63 & applied for a post-retirement contract. They denied it. Not bse he was unqualified, but that his politics isn't rightly aligned🤫. MUK is staffed at 42%. They let this man go:

The whole world is after African resources, but Africans are only interested in going to heaven.

Africa’s IP-address registry AFRINIC-The Regional Internet Registry for Africa faces a court bid for liquidation. Why this matters to every network, ISP & internet user on the continent - and why we should all pay attention to what is happening! A thread 🧵! . #AFRINIC #InternetGovernance afrinic.net/communique-win…

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

This video is so good! What makes it even better is the Afrigo Band classic playing in the background. It's loosely titled: olimujawa omusajja ansinga; Luganda for "where will you get a man better than me?" The question for y'all New Yorkers.

I read this in Žižek's voice; pure cinema. Though I suspect that Žižek already has a name for this narrativatization order, where people meme-fy him for quick philosophical thrills.

I’ve long been disgusted by US tech companies' complicity in genocide, but learning that Satya Nadella personally met with Israeli spies to let them dragnet Palestinian conversations on Azure hits a new level of depravity

ChatGPT-5 recommended a nail place with mani and pedi for $25-$30 - seemed too good to be true. I followed the link. The source? A 2016 article quoting those prices. That got me thinking: an intelligent person would look at the date and be like "Wow, that's 10 years ago.

The IDF holds a very peculiar record: if you film them they always miss the target and all those killed turn out to be civilians attacked by mistake. But if you don’t, they never miss the target and every single one killed is always a combatant. Funny how that works huh?

M-KOPA's growth and profitability is impressive and you've gotta give the team their flowers. But make no mistake, this was built on millions and millions in equity and debt earmarked for climate / PAYGO solar. They've raised ~$600m in funding (debt/equity/grants). Those

The FIFA world cup 2026 ticket bidding process is such a sham! Ticket sales opened and within 2 minutes, 99% of tickets are gone -- probably acquired by bots. As if that's not enough, tickets are dynamically priced at 7x their price. Nope not gonna participate in this VISA heist

Just a girl, who got to debate brilliant scholars on a topic so relevant to our times. It was truly a highlight of my year to have participated in the #DohaDebates. Check out the debate featuring Yanis Varoufakis Evgeny Morozov (evgenymorozov.bsky.social) Daniel Susskind and yours truly. 😊 👇🏾

Sorry HCI researchers having been asking this for years :-)