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Nanjala Nyabola

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'My goal is to be a primary, not a secondary source' Ntozake Shange. Represented by @craigliterary. For speaking inquiries contact deborah@propela.co.uk

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1Nov 3, '23Half of the journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last three weeks. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, this is the highest fatality rate for journalists in an88.3×861k17k9.2k520
2May 11, '24Sudan's healthcare system is also under attack.41.8×407k11k7.8k217
3Apr 29, '24Don't come and do civic education on Twitter and call it a day. Talk to your family and friends. Be that annoying person who challenges people to think critically about their polit14×137k1.7k87942
4Jul 11, '24If it is offered to you, refuse to take up any appointment until all police officers implicated in the murder and arbitrary arrests of protesters are held accountable. That is the 13.9×136k1.7k1.3k32
5May 15, '24These guys are doing food deliveries in Khartoum at great personal risk. Please consider contributing to their work if it's available to you.10.5×103k2k1.8k82
6Jun 22, '24John-Allan is emblematic of "you don't have to shout to command the room".10.3×101k4.1k1.5k62
7Oct 28, '23Just a bit of a conversation on the term genocide as there's been some discussion on it here. The legal and lay definitions of genocide are different. In legal terms, "genocide" is10.3×100k1k287125
8Jun 25, '24A wise leader would have deescalated. "We've heard you - we're going back to the drawing board. We want you to be part of the process".9.9×96k2.9k1.8k54
9Jun 25, '24Are you able to retweet this #RejectFinanceBill20249.5×92k1.4k2.9k5
10Apr 11, '25The only reason why Kenya is the only country in East Africa where opposition leaders are not in jail is because Kenya has no opposition party.9.4×92k3.6k1k53
11Jun 22, '24Kenyans are exactly the right mix of serious and unserious. 😂9.3×91k5.8k2k53
12Jun 27, '23The worst part of being an African in International Relations is hearing people talk about your home, not as a place where people live and love, but as a place where raw materials 9.2×90k1.8k55469
13Jul 5, '24"If one person says it's raining, and the other says it's not, your job as a journalist is not to simply repeat what they say. Your job is to go outside and check".8.7×84k4.7k3k52
14Oct 22, '23A group of Kenyans organised a private event in Nairobi in solidarity with Palestinians. Police broke up the event and arrested three people. Their alleged crime? Waving a Palestin8.5×83k1.3k45324
15Nov 15, '24This is all Moi's fault because he plucked these boys from university and from their father's shadow and spent 20 years telling them they were important and now they just won't go 8.4×82k2.8k1.1k111
16Jun 20, '24Kenyans are trying to crowdsource information about a police officer who fired live bullets into a crowd of protesters, killing one. If you have more information, details for submi8.3×81k1.7k1.8k28
17Jun 22, '24If I ran a newsroom in Kenya, my first question to myself would be why people can have this conversation on Twitter - why 50,000 plus people will stay online for seven hours - and 7.8×76k3.3k1.6k68
18Jun 20, '24What does it profit a man to pass a bill and lose a country in its place?7.7×75k4.5k2.1k39
19Oct 4, '24Aren't Cabinet Secretaries supposed to be apolitical? Isn't this illegal?7.2×71k2.3k1k71
20Oct 16, '24The lawyers are on an episode of Suits but the witness is in an episode of Vioja Mahakamani.7.2×70k4k89560
21Jan 3, '25Imagine telling someone in 2008 that one day both Maina Njenga and Makau Mutua would be defending William Ruto.7.1×69k2.1k80928
22Jan 2, '25Why do Kenyan contractors hate grass?7.1×69k1.9k45233
23Dec 3, '23I've learnt keenly as a Kenyan that the idea of "history will never forgive" is empty. "History" doesn't "do" anything. People "do". History is nothing if people don't document, ar6.7×65k1.3k56390
24Jul 10, '24You can't take photographs of parliament from across the street without being stopped by police officers and you want us to believe that someone "mysteriously gained access" and di6.7×65k4.3k3.1k49
25Jun 25, '24The people filmed dancing in front of all these luxury vehicles on TikTok are Kenyan members of parliament, flaunting their wealth on social media.6.5×63k1.5k1.6k70
26Jan 17, '25When you eat your kids snacks and then pretend to help them look for them.6.2×61k2.7k1k32
27Sep 2, '24Devastating news about the ransacking of the national museum in Sudan which was one of the richest collections of African cultural history on the continent.5.8×57k1.2k72782
28Jun 25, '24As a language nerd, I'm also completely stuck on the fact that he only spoke in English.5.7×56k1.2k60639
29Mar 4, '25Kimani Ichungwah got mad that his lifestyle got audited on television and now he's trying to get the Auditor General fired.5.7×56k5.1k1.3k29
30Oct 4, '24The main mortuary in Nairobi has stopped accepting dead bodies from the police because the mortuary is full of unidentified bodies. The capacity is 184 but there are now 607 bodies5.6×54k1.5k1.3k54
31Oct 16, '24I want us to get to the point where we can reject false binaries. You don't have to pick between two bad things - you're allowed to dislike and reject them both.5.6×54k1.5k76251
32Jan 11, '25What a horrible thing for the president of a country to say.5.3×52k2.1k79952
33Oct 18, '24How are you able to convene the national assembly to stay up all night to remove the DP but there are constituencies that have been without an MP for more than a year because the N5.2×51k2.2k1.3k38
34Feb 15, '18Roses are red. Violets are blue. South Africa has no president; Kenya has two.5.1×03.5k3.1k0
35Feb 27, '25This is not a good man. He's just angry about being excluded from the eating.5.1×49k3k93034
36Nov 18, '24Mans tried to bribe one denomination and now errybody mad. 😂5.1×49k3.4k83225
37Oct 4, '24Stop rallying around individuals and rally around ideas. That way when individuals lose their way you can still have a sense of pulling in the same direction. That's why we keep ha5.0×49k1.7k1.1k34
38Jul 7, '24Do y'all know how hard Moi worked to erase Saba Saba from the public consciousness? How regularly people used to get beaten or arrested for even commemorating the day? What an amaz4.9×48k1.3k62925
39Dec 19, '24Stuck in the worst glitch of the matrix. Free us, Morpheus. It's enough.4.8×47k2.4k1.2k58
40Aug 9, '24Ukistaajabu ya Tupac, utaona ya Jacob Juma.4.7×46k3.1k1.5k37
41Dec 24, '24A @husskhalid appreciation post. Between the postmortems, the funerals, the arrests and detentions, I can't even imagine the things Hussein has seen since June, standing with victi4.6×45k1.1k49813
42Mar 14, '25"Funga duka, rais anapita" It used to mean something completely different back in the day.4.6×45k2.4k82835
43Sep 16, '24129 people is not a committee. 129 people is a large village.4.5×44k2.2k1.1k15
44Oct 2, '18We're not home. We moved.4.3×04.2k2.1k8
45Jan 20, '25These dumbasses never comprehend that it's the trees that make these neighbourhoods desirable to live in. It's not Lavington without the trees. It's not Runda without the trees. It4.3×42k1.7k66231
46Aug 8, '24WSR is convinced that someone somewhere must be plotting against him because he has been in politics for so long that he cannot believe that people care enough about other human be4.1×40k2.2k1.3k29
47Feb 17, '22Lots of people mocking this but African countries are allowed to show moral leadership on things that are not about Africa.4.1×05k1.4k41
48Oct 3, '24"You can't outgrind a failing state".3.9×38k1.2k78533
49Nov 12, '24We need to talk about Safaricom.3.9×38k1.4k67921
50Jul 7, '21What if I told you that it was possible to write or say "Haiti" without adding "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere"?3.8×05.3k99336
51Oct 20, '24This Mashujaa day I commemorate all the young men and women who went out to protest this year, demanding better for themselves and our country only to be met by the violent excess 3.8×37k1.3k84327
52Jul 11, '24Fired everyone except the person with the most fake of all the fake jobs.3.7×36k1.5k71110
53Jun 22, '24"You want to donate 100 million to build a church but you don't want to donate 100 million to researchers. Mtaenda majuu mtarudi in caskets". Na hiyo ndio ukweli wa mambo.3.6×36k2.2k1.3k15
54Jul 31, '24If you learn nothing else at all from Hanifa please learn the importance of just doing the work. Be brave, be consistent, be transparent and do the work. @Honeyfarsafi you're a cre3.6×36k1.5k62838
55Jun 18, '24Gen Z has one advantage over the rest of us - they don't remember what it was like to be afraid of everything and everyone all the time. Long may they prosper.3.6×35k1.1k44522
56Mar 23, '22If you're reading "The End of Policing" also read "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Davis, and "We Do This 'Til We Free Us" by Mariame Kaba.3.5×04.2k714634
57Jun 22, '24Kenyans have said "fuck" in public more in the last 24 hours than in the previous 24 years. 😂3.5×34k1.6k58022
58Nov 29, '24Everything seems impossible until it happens. We've already tried rotating through the same six garbage politicians for almost 30 years and everything has only gotten worse. Can't 3.3×33k1.6k79924
59Jul 29, '24Please y'all make some noise for Nigeria's women's basketball team - they are the lowest ranked women's basketball team at the Olympics and Australia is ranked fourth. This is a hu3.2×32k1.5k49111
60Aug 10, '22I understand why so many people in Africa want to call Kenya a success, but please stop chiding us for wanting more for our country than the bare minimum. People not killing each o3.2×03.7k1.2k39
61Jul 3, '24You want to criminalise people raising money to help other people in hospital?3.2×31k1.8k1.1k11
62Oct 6, '24The key to determining what comes next in Kenya is not in Gachagua. It is deciding how we will respond to those 607 unidentified bodies lying at the morgue in Nairobi.3.1×31k1.4k88029
63Sep 9, '22One of the most unsettling things about the postcolonial condition is feeling robbed even of your right to remember your history correctly. Decolonisation is also reclaiming our ri3.0×03.2k1.2k124
64Jul 11, '24Kenya has a population of 48 million (and some change). Please stop recycling the same 22 names for possible ministers. Think beyond the cesspool.2.7×27k1.8k1k17
65Aug 14, '24Taking helicopters and a full security contingent around the country to drink tea and launch posho mills.2.6×26k1.6k99013
66Jun 24, '24As a language nerd, I'm just hoping people are taking in what a huge impact translation has on reach. Remember that we still don't have an official Kiswahili translation of the con2.6×26k1.1k68629
67Jan 4, '25What kind of awful son allows his mother's funeral to become an occasion to threaten ordinary people searching for justice?2.5×25k1.4k55311
68Feb 6, '22The best jollof makers won.2.5×02.7k88821
69Jul 30, '24Kenya police won't let Larry rest, no matter the postal code. 😅2.4×23k1.1k50128
70Jul 11, '24Denzel Omondi, we speak your name.2.3×23k1.3k8795
71Mar 19, '25Why are you fighting so hard and breaking a country apart to keep a job you clearly don't want and are definitely not good at?2.3×22k1.3k46222
72Jul 12, '24"How can a dead person come and report at IPOA?"2.1×20k1.1k69342
73Nov 21, '17Lessons for Zimbabwe from Kenya: getting rid of the man is just the beginning. Getting rid of the attitudes, structures and powers that kept him there for so long is the real battl2.0×01.6k1.1k0
74Apr 27, '21Telling yourself that you will fix the citations after you've finished writing is how the madness begins.2.0×02.4k51733
75Nov 15, '22A KBC reporter had this delightful interaction with an elephant. The funny part is, even though KBC has social media, the clip wasn't posted on any of their accounts. It's gone vir1.8×02.2k57860
76Feb 14, '21African writers have the right to tell pointless stories. We are more than our traumas and anger; our experiences are valuable even if they don't teach you anything.1.7×02.1k59728
77Mar 13, '25A random Mike Muchiri appreciation post. Thank you for the laughs and for the work.1.7×16k1.2k2215
78Jun 2, '21Over the last three months, I've been working with some of the leading scholars of Kiswahili in Kenya and Tanzania to provide translations for key terms in technology and digital r1.5×01.2k647131
79Aug 21, '22When did Magadi become a company town that people are forbidden from entering?1.5×01.5k54356
80Sep 1, '21Africa is good to receive the refugees from your wars but not your vaccines.1.3×01.5k52414
81Sep 9, '22Corporal punishment in African schools is also a colonial legacy. In Kenya, well into the 1970s children would be violently beaten for speaking languages other than English in scho1.3×01.2k57253
82Nov 14, '21Kenya's national bird, the lilac-breasted roller. (From @BBCEarth).1.3×01.5k33644
83Apr 14, '21This pandemic will be remembered as one of the most significant transfers of wealth from poor people to wealthy people in the modern era.1.3×01.4k52219
84Sep 11, '21A couple of weeks ago I was in a small town in Samburu. There had been a protest because a 13 year old boy who was grazing the family herd had inadvertently entered a private conse1.3×01.1k58645
85Nov 4, '21There's a reason why militaries are only allowed to operate domestically during emergencies in functional democracies. Keep telling soldiers that they are better at running the cou1.3×01.3k52510
86Aug 16, '22Raila is well within his rights to challenge election results in court. Separate your own exasperation from his legal rights. You're allowed to find his suit frivolous but that's d1.2×01.3k46018
87Mar 16, '21BREAKING: The Kiswahili word for Aliens is Majanabi. You're welcome.1.2×01.5k31134
88Nov 26, '21If travel restrictions were purely about public health all countries would be banning travel to and from Europe. But they don't. Because they're not.1.2×01.3k50014
89Nov 17, '22The erasure of both Alvin and KBC from the way this story has travelled should be written up as a case study in power and inequality in media.1.2×01.2k49424
90Oct 3, '22Don't say "the world" when you mean "the West".1.2×01.5k32816
91Oct 6, '21This has been one of the most difficult and important stories that has ever been written on this platform. Nadia Chaudri opened herself up to millions of strangers and taught us al1.1×01.3k38124
92May 21, '22I think it's good that the NYT is publishing this. I think it's important to know that Haitians and scholars of Haiti have been screaming about it for generations.1.1×01.2k38460
93Jul 31, '18Lebron James took his money and instead of starting a private charter school, he put it into an existing public school and just enhanced the services that were already there. That 1.0×01.4k3110
94Aug 18, '18I don't think there's a country in the world that owes Kofi Annan as much of a debt of gratitude as Kenya.1.0×01.1k4641
95Mar 13, '21Welcome new followers. Here's a good place to start.1.0×01.2k233148
96Mar 13, '22In 2021 the UK tried to criminalise offering assistance to people crossing the Channel in dinghies.1.0×01.1k42614
97Mar 14, '18Stephen Hawking lived to 76. With the right support system his disability did not prevent him from living a full life, much of it at the apex of academia, doing work that made all 1.0×01.2k4060
98Aug 10, '22Another general observation - the size of political rallies on any day is nothing more than an indicator of the level of unemployment in a specific area.0.9×01.1k2859
99Sep 20, '21We are stumbling into a future where the lives of people who are not attached to a nation state are less valuable than those that do. In some ways we've had it for a while, but thi0.8×098524930

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