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These are tricky times but your voice does not need company.
If you want to resist don’t burn energy recruiting choirs from those whose ambition drowns out their conscience.
No one should silence those who speak.
Equally, critics must not harangue those who will choose silence.
Joyce Nyairo retweeted
One of the hills I’m willing to die on is that African countries need to look more at countries like Brazil, Mexico, Cuba and even the Indian state of Kerala when designing their health care and social protection systems.. and avoid mimicking the West ..🤔🤔
Joyce Nyairo retweeted
Serbia's veteran ruler Vučić concedes election to student-led protest movement share.google/L0cQrwl9Nk0N2b7…
Kenyan politicians introducing /launching something that has always existed is my favourite genre of farce and irrelevance.
“They say we will break up,
just you wait
They gamble on the time and the date it will end
Not much longer, they swear
You see everybody's talking,
I hear rumors everywhere!”🎵🎶
Luther Vandross, “I Know”, 1998.
Joyce Nyairo retweeted
It's amazing how many honorary doctorates of letters are being dished out in a country that not just hates humanities - but wages war against them. Have we seen the massacre of arts and humanities being done by CBC? Most senior secondary schools aren't offering them, and those which do are taunting the students as "not academically gifted."
#CBCisheretostay
People ask me why I write.
I write to unpack a thought, and finish it…. to clear my head for the next flood of contemplations— which will also need some arranging…in writing.
Every time I remember the argument that a man who studied at local public universities and educated his children locally would be the one to save our higher education sector, I choke on laughter and tears simultaneously.
A vampire has no fond past, it lives for the best swallow.
If we accept the blurred lines between the fighter and the fought, we must revisit the gap between the needs we place in the wagons we hitch, and the star on which we hitch those wagons.
And doubtlessly, Raila was one of the brightest stars of the second liberation struggle…
joycenyairo.substack.com/p/y…
Joyce Nyairo retweeted
It is misleading for holders of honorary doctorate degrees to use the title “Dr” which is exclusively reserved for holders of earned doctoral degrees and medical doctors.
Joyce Nyairo retweeted
One year from today let’s meet there for site visit . Bring your checklist
Garbage collection
Signs of blocked sewers
Lighting
Car park free of dumped vehicles
Ask for cyber 4th flr
To let signage.
Bravo👏🏾
A county govt committed to urban renewal; gardeners, lifesavers, swimming pool & gym attendants on payroll, street lights on, common staircases swept, garbage picked, water in pipes, toilets on upper floors flushing…
And tenants to pay zero service charge,yes?
Brilliant!
Fireworks light Eldoret sky after the commissioning of Pioneer Affordable Houses by President William Ruto.
#KassNews #KassDigital
Joyce Nyairo retweeted
@jnyairo madam now that the grim reaper seems ready to harvest all of KE’s great historians … any hope of endowed chairs or reissuing of their books plus seminar series at UoN ? @DrOmbongi prof Sema kitu !! 🤔🤔🔥🔥🤣🤣
Well, well, well.🤔
This is precisely the crude GSU takeover of private properties adjacent to this State Lodge (including part of Eldoret Club) that DT Moi employed in the 1980s.
No notice.
Owners were eventually paid less than market-rate value under Compulsory Acquisition.
General Service Unit (GSU) officers have occupied a prime property owned by the family of Kenya’s second President, the late Daniel arap Moi, near the Eldoret State Lodge. The property, registered as Eldoret Municipality/Block 8/62, was invaded Friday afternoon after what those in the know claim was an order from State house to evict current occupants.
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