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13 Nov, 7 tweets, 5 min read
Formation lap #SprintRace #SaoPauloGP #F1
Lights out!!! #SprintRace #SaoPauloGP #F1
Lap 9. Bot leads from Ver. Sai keeping Per behind. Nor is past Lec. Ham is P11. #SprintRace #SaoPauloGP #F1
Lap 20. Sai is doing well to maintain P3. Ver still stuck behind Bot. Ham is P7 chasing Lec. #SprintRace #SaoPauloGP #F1
Bot on pole. Ver. Sai. Per. Nor. Lec. Gas. Oco. Vet. Ham. #SprintRace #SaoPauloGP #F1
Fantastic race from Sai but must admit I was hoping Per would get past just so RBs jump Mercs on the Constructors'. Didn't happen but all good. #SprintRace #SaoPauloGP #F1
Ham's pace is ominous for tomorrow. I imagine he'll probably be on the podium tomorrow barring any unforeseen issues. If Ver can get past Bot at the start, it'll be interesting to see whether Ham can catch him before the end. #SprintRace #SaoPauloGP #F1

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11 Nov
Question: How many people have been prosecuted for Apartheid-era abuses in South Africa? Or are they getting a free pass like the brutal and murderous British colonials in Kenya? Have any victims received compensation?
aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/…
Remember 100-year-old former guards at WW2 concentration camps are still being hunted and prosecuted, and Germany continues to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors. Haiti was forced to compensate French slave owners and Kenya paid to get back stolen land from British settlers.
Yet when the prospect of justice for historical crimes odieros have committed against miros, suddenly someone will suggest it is living in the past, asking for handouts, and we should let bygones be bygones. Sorry, but I am not boarding.
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31 Oct
Question: Why are the identities of the British soldier who murdered a Kenyan woman, and those of his friends whom he then joked about it with on Facebook, kept hidden? Why are they not being named?
And then there's this colonial BS about why authorities in Kenya cooperated with the coverup:
The "Kenya-would-be-ungovernable" claptrap is the same excuse Brits used to escape justice for colonial crimes. Here's some stuff they did then - and recounted online. See how the attitudes are similar? To them it is always just "another dead Mickey".
gathara.blogspot.com/2009/10/spoils…
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29 Oct
Last year I did a 3-part series for @theelephantinfo on Kenya's prison system that argued it functions nothing like Mwaura would like us to believe. Part 1 was on the terrible colonial root and brutal logic of the whole idea of incarceration.
theelephant.info/culture/2020/0… ImageImageImageImage
Part 2 discussed how the 1950s Emergency and the colonial struggle to suppress the KLFA changed the already brutal nature of Kenyan prisons for the worse.
theelephant.info/features/2020/… ImageImageImageImage
Part 3 was about the results of continuing the insane colonial logic of locking up people and alternatives to doing so (cue gasps of astonishment from local solutionists).
theelephant.info/features/2020/… ImageImageImageImage
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29 Oct
Question: KE media loves to use the term "ultra-modern" but what does it actually mean?
the-star.co.ke/news/2021-10-2…
According to the piece, Bomas will be "modernised" into an "ultra-modern" "modern MICE facility" while helping "Kenyan youth to appreciate African culture as much as they appreciate modernity".
See the fetishization of "modernity" as the opposite of "African culture"? @OrutaBrian
"African culture" is a curious colonial invention that is always a negation of "modern". "Africans" are denizens of the past, not the present, always needing to be "modernized" and aspiring for the "ultra-modern". Sound familiar? "Modernization" is today's "civilising mission".
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24 Oct
Formation lap. #USGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lights out!! #USGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 5. Ham leads from Ver and Per. Lec maintains P4 but Sai has been passed by the McLemon of Ric and is P6 ahead of Nor. #USGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
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18 Oct
Another thing we must never forget.
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