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Nanjira
@NiNanjira
Itinerant 🌍 native. Complicating “international” equations. Tech*(Policy x Diplomacy x Governance)*Psych. Africa isn't poor, just misunderstood & mismanaged✊🏾
Jul 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“The advent of open-source warfare points to a major shift in the role technology will play in future conflicts.”/ 1 “Battlefield success will not only hinge on who has the biggest hypersonic missiles or the most space-based lasers, but who can most effectively tap into the Silicon Valley development model, which stresses agility, speed, blue-sky thinking, and cost-effective delivery.” /2
Jul 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Very interesting arguments, on the impacts of the University (Amendment) Act, aka the Duale Bill.
nation.africa/kenya/news/edu… 1. “This is no longer the case as students do not even know their representatives. Under the current law, the leaders are answerable to a cabinet and cannot therefore run the show as was the case in the past, call for mass action or a strike…”
Jul 2, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“Robin took a personal trip to Turkana and his car broke down there. Instead of having the car put on a flatbed to the nearest town for repair, the car was towed back to Nairobi. Everything amounted to KES 250 K that was billed to the company”. “And then a new VW Touareg engine of KES 200 K was installed in the car. The full amount of KES 450 K was charged to the company as logistics fees. This is something everyone knew at the company,” a source disclosed.”

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Jun 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The emergence of the shadow in mid-life…so poignantly articulated 👇🏾 “Jung calls the realizations of the Shadow an “eminently practical problem.” This growing awareness of the inferior part of the personality cannot be twisted into an intellectual activity.”

Whew!
Jun 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I love this. 🪴 🕊 #DigitalSafeSpaces Image apps.apple.com/us/app/breonna…
Jun 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“The road, which is on a trial run, has seen over 31,000 vehicles use it every day, according to Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia.”

This isn’t the success metric they seem to think it is…
In fact, it’s a loading mobility nightmare. Something we unpacked as far back as 2012, with #tech4traffic

nanjira.com/2012/07/tech-4…
Jun 27, 2020 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
“...Kenya’s variety of Jim Crow, which made many U.S. nationals feel at home. This apartheid-like system had been in place for some time and was virtually coterminous with the beginning of European colonialism...” “... as the British Empire began its terminal decline, Washington also began to exert similar influence on London’s colo- nial outposts—Kenya, not least.”
Mar 24, 2020 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
New #digitalrights language needed; stating mass surveillance isn’t the answer/a human rights violation unlikely to win allies in governments or among the citizenry at this time...

For what’s the response to, “what are the alternatives?”

Oof.

#NewNormal 1. https://t.co/EBlYwXWSzg