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Jan 14, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Looks like West African countries all went to the same tailor to get their flags done. Can't blame tailor. Y'all can't go to same person for a piece of cloth. Ghana must have arrived first and was given a black star patched in yellow, green, red. Image
Then came Senegal. "You see what you gave Ghana, yes, vertical of that. Give it to me quickly quickly!"
Tailor: Star as well?
Senegal: Yes please. Make it green though. Image
Tailor: Who's next?
Mali: It's us. Land of Mansa Musa. Richest man ever to walk the earth.
Tailor: OK rich boy, how d'you want yours?
Mali: Just remove the star from Ghana and give me what you're left with.
Tailor: Ah. You're not only rich, you're lazy too! Image
Oh no here comes the guys who speak English and French.
Tailor: don't tell me you want a star. I'm out of star designs.
Cameroon: Not so fast, fundi. Not so fast. Nobody has a monopoly over stars. Ever heard of yellow star on red?
Tailor: I swear you've taken the last star. Image
Tailor: Yoooh Benin, how can I help you? Wait, are you even a full country? Aren't you a part of Nigeria?
Benin: Oh so now you've graduated from tailor to UN you're now deciding who's a country and who's not? I don't need stars if that's what you think. Nkt Image
Togo: Like Benin's please. Just rearrange them so they don't think we were copying them.
Tailor: How?
Togo: Just swap red and green.
Tailor: OK. That was easy.
Togo: A star please. Black one.
Tailor: What's with you guys and staaaaaaaaaars!!! Image
Tailor: Burkina Faso please tell me you're different from all these guys, please.
Burkina: Quite. We're proudly different. So just give us red and green. No yellow.
Tailor: Sure?
Burkina: Quite. But if you have any yellow remaining you could give us a dash of it on a star Image
Tailor: Mauritania please here's your yellow star, green and red and go!
Mauritania: please add the moon. Full galaxy please. We're not an ordinary country. Image
Tailor: Niger Niger Niger. How may I help you?
Niger: Make me look different please. As foreign as possible
Tailor: Say no more. No star
Niger: But this is Indian flag.
Tailor: You said you wanted to look foreign
Niger: Yes foreign, but India?
Tailor: Gerarahia! Image
Tailor: what's your name?
Ivory Coast
Tailor: wait, your other name?
Ivory: Cote D'Ivoire
Tailor: Do I have any designs for such a name?
Ivory: Never mind. See what you gave Niger? Vertical of that
Tailor: No star?
Ivory: No, I'm good. Just remove that Indian dot at the center Image
Tailor: Who are you?
GB: Guinea Bissau
Tailor: Haven't I served a Guinea already?
GB: Yes. But I'm Bissau
Tailor: What's your capital?
GB: Bissau
Tailor: what?
GB: Bissau. Anyway, don't overthink. Give us exactly what you gave Togo. We have other priorities as a nation not flags Image

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What's the meaning of your county's name? I'll start by Luo counties. Kisumu was originally Kisuma, Dholuo for market - where barter trade among the Lang'o, Abaluhya, Abagusii, Luo and Maasai communities thrived. Kisuma-Kisumo-and-now-Kisumu. Language evolves.
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Min Omolo ka Nyunja. Luo Twitter can I share with you the story of this famous woman?

You surely have heard of the saying 'ARITO MA ANENO MIN OMOLO K'ANYUNJA'.

Sit down and follow:
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We're getting there now I promise.
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A group of fans who'd traveled overnight was at the gate already.

May 13, 2018 the day Gor Mahia played Hull City in a fully sold out Kasarani Stadium.

Wanna know how we planned & executed the project? Be my guest
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A friendly match.
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A non competitive match.
A team playing only in the English Championship, not Premier League.

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