Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenya. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Mwamaka Sharifu Lali: My Chinese dream
As a young girl with Chinese heritage, Sharifu dreamed of China, captivated by tales of Admiral Zheng He's voyages to Africa and the wonders of Chinese medicine. About twenty years ago, she first set foot on this distant land, beginning her journey of self-discovery and growth in China. Join Sharifu as we delve into the bond between China and Africa and its rich history, and experience their enduring friendship.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Continue A Lamber O Cu Dos Racistas…
‘Debt trap’ is a Western cover-up for its power-lust pic.twitter.com/azxOWX0f9q
— T-House (@thouse_opinions) August 28, 2024
Another GENOCIDE Sponsored by the WEST
This is endless. When will this end? How is this allowed to continue? https://t.co/s4TSvNomEm
— Jehad Abusalim جهاد أبو سليم (@JehadAbusalim) August 28, 2024
David Monyae, director of the Centre for Africa-China Studies, highlights a critical issue: while the West criticizes China's investments in Africa, they're investing in projects like the Lobito Corridor to secure critical minerals. How does some in the West practice double… pic.twitter.com/bFTnIhQDqs
— Liu Xin刘欣 (@LiuXininBeijing) August 27, 2024
The shocking claim comes in a new book examining Ms Truss's chaotic 49 days in No10 - just weeks after voters turfed her out of the Commons at the General Election pic.twitter.com/09pBK3B5hR
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) August 27, 2024
This is so obscene.
— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) August 27, 2024
Keir Starmer will defend multimillionaires & billionaires whilst cutting public spending and saying he's making tough choices whilst fueling anti migrant rhetoric & complicity in war crimes.
Nothing to do with being bored. Ridiculous. https://t.co/MVndaboSRY
The US wanted the Chinese people to remain forever poor and work as slaves to US capitalists with no power to push back EVER. The problems the US has with China today is China’s growing middle class with the ability to push back. THAT was never the🇺🇸 plan for their Chinese serfs.
— Rebecca Chan (@RebeccaYChan) August 28, 2024
Yes. The U.S. Empire’s stated goal is global subjugation. They market it as delivering “freedom and democracy”.
— Rebecca Chan (@RebeccaYChan) August 28, 2024
Do you suppose that he knows better but plays the part of the court jester to keep the game rolling, or does he genuinely believe this drivel? I’m having a hard time accepting someone of his position, with the resources and contacts it comes with, can be that ignorant.
— mischa 🔻 ☭ (@redmischa) August 27, 2024
Israel is a 21st-century Rhodesia with nuclear weapons. It's a white-supremacist colonial outpost of US imperial power in one of the most geostrategic regions on Earth.
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) August 28, 2024
Like Israel, Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa also had the full support of the US government until the end. https://t.co/745LlL9s5i
CNN is TRASH!!!!
Is this related to the USA-backed colour revolution?
— Deocliciano Okssipin (@Deocliciano) August 27, 2024
India is clearly to be disrupted by Washington.
The USA is a terrorist state and CNN is trash!
I see most of the intelligentsia from the Global South as such - vile mercenaries for the ideological West.
— Deocliciano Okssipin (@Deocliciano) August 27, 2024
Imperialism is deeply entrenched in the USA's existence. It would implode if its ways were severed.
When will educated Africans learn, and have some dignity?
This is who is handling Kenyas economic affairs to align to Bidenomics.
— Sajid abu Sajid (@AlhajiKe) August 28, 2024
Shes also part in play for the WEF
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Fighting Imperialism!!! Geopolitical Economy Report: Donald Trump is NOT a 'threat to the deep state'. Here is his warmongering record.
Bodies of my sister, her children along with five cousins have been under the rubble of the building since December 2023! pic.twitter.com/wTnH4AMSpg
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) July 16, 2024
The Leader of the FREE World (🤡) Is Obviously A fucking criminal and coward vampire!
Biden's interview last night claiming he has done "more for the Palestinian community than anybody" almost immediately went viral, juxtaposed with images of U.S. bombs falling in Gaza pic.twitter.com/40TYVGaXxr
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) July 16, 2024
Their war on China on behalf of the USA billionaires have started
Europeans blaming China for the crimes they committed, hypocrisy at its peak
— Yiz (@Yiz_19980502) July 16, 2024
While the even more brainwashed US citizens play the ostrich game of denial.
Teamsters president at the RNC: "Against gigantic multinational corporation, an individual worker has zero power. It's only when Americans band together in democratic unions that we win real improvements in wages, benefits and working conditions." pic.twitter.com/5oIRgbzbe3
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 16, 2024
African assLickers are killing their sons and daughter to protect imperialist's interest...
This is Kiambaa, the person is still the same killing people now. WE SHALL NEVER FORGET!! SHAME ON YOU #RutoMustGo pic.twitter.com/FanUAimWSk
— The Government Critic 🇰🇪 (@magwaz3) July 16, 2024
We ask GEN Z to continue with MAANDAMO. https://t.co/ACyYMID2bA
— Atheists In Kenya Society (@AtheistsInKenya) July 16, 2024
Ukrainians will still be dying for the USA empire.
Imperialists does not care about your Origin. all they want is power/Money.
Despite #Vance’s previous opposition of support for Ukraine, experts believe that no matter who wins the US presidential election, support for #Ukraine won’t stop immediately as it harms the interests of US arms manufacturers. https://t.co/w72jXTbVha pic.twitter.com/PvzmQU6nIy
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) July 16, 2024
Friday, May 24, 2024
The USA Empire And Its African Ass-Lickers...
Good day to re-read @samar42 on the U.S. outsourcing its imperialism in Haiti to Kenya.
— Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel (@shailjapatel) May 24, 2024
"There is a very real possibility that the Kenyan state intends to use Haiti as a laboratory for its own future pacification efforts at home and abroad."https://t.co/tyIqZtX3BO
Quem se lembra de Savimbi (entre outros), e o como os EUA o usou como chiclete?
And allowed to sit in the "big office" 😔 https://t.co/ESm3NJIUNB pic.twitter.com/c7q0z4zMsQ
— Ja Nyakach (@Ja_Kopul) May 24, 2024
Saturday, August 29, 2020
(neo)Colonialism || Kenya
ICYMI: This was one of our most-viewed videos on Twitter this week 👇 pic.twitter.com/w4QP1EEO6v
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 29, 2020
Thursday, June 20, 2019
... A Long Overdue Debate About The Nature Of Ethnicity In Kenya and in Africa
WHAT IS YOUR TRIBE?
The Invention Of Kenya’s Ethnic Communities
By Patrick Gathara for The Elephant - Speaking truth to power
... For many people, both on the continent and outside it, the idea of tribe – with its connotations of strong, primitive, primordial ethnicity and ancient cultural traditions – is an indispensable part of African identity. ...
... Africans are first and foremost seen as tribesmen or tribeswomen and tribe is taken for granted as the best explanation for their actions. This idea is so deeply ingrained that few ever bother to question it.
Yet question it we should. For rather than something indelibly encoded into the African genetic make-up and over which one exercises little choice, tribe turns out to be largely an artificial construct. The fact is, there is a marked difference between how ordinary Africans, including Kenyans, think of tribe and its origins and what history and social science has to say about it.
To begin with, just what is a tribe? Even this question turns out to be not as straightforward as some would have us believe. “Tribe has no coherent meaning” wrote Dr. Christopher Lowe of Boston University in his 1997 paper “Talking about ‘Tribe’: Moving from Stereotypes to Analysis”. “If by tribe we mean a social group that shares a single territory, a single language, a single political unit, a shared religious tradition, a similar economic system, and common cultural practices, such a group is rarely found in the real world,” he wrote.
What? But people do identify as Kikuyus or Luos, no? And they have done this for ages, haven’t they? Well, yes and no. People have always banded together in groups in search of security. As they grew, such groups, initially defined by kinship relations, developed common ways of responding to and relating with the world around them, as well as systems to manage relations within the group. But since the world kept changing, so did these groups. Some were subsumed into others, some got separated and developed along different paths, others disappeared altogether. Customs and languages changed. The idea that our current ethnic communities have survived unchanged from ancient times is plainly false. As Prof. Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College in the US says, “‘Tribal’ and/or ethnic identities have never been primordial and immutable, in Africa or elsewhere.”
The politicisation of ethnicity
In fact, our current ethnic formations – some of which did not even exist a century ago – and our understanding of how they relate to each other, are the products of much more recent events. “What is a tribe?” asks Mahmood Mamdani, the Executive Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research. “It is very largely a creation of laws drawn up by a colonial state which imposes group identities on individual subjects and thereby institutionalises group life… Above all, tribe was a politically driven, totalising identity.”
“The politicisation of ethnic identity began with the colonial experience,” says Prof. Kimani Njogu in the recent Africa Uncensored documentary titled In Tribe We Trust. According to the book Ethnicity and African Politics by Crawford Young, “although the ethnic labels… have pre-colonial origins, they became comprehensive and rigidly ranked categories only in the colonial period; they were heavily influenced by imperial codifications and further transformed by politicised actions in the last half-century.”
Clearly, pre-colonial peoples had their ideas as to who they were and how they related to the world around them. But what we call tribes today bears little semblance to the ever-changing aboriginal identities they fashioned and would probably be completely unrecognisable to them. In any case, the idea that today’s ethnic communities necessarily grew out of kinship relations is bogus.
However, for a colonial administration that required order and control in order to facilitate its extractive aim, such inexactitude was unacceptable. Confronted with the reality of the diversity on the African continent, the European colonisers tried to hammer it into compliance with their preconceived ideas. Much of this was accomplished using administrative measures and backed up by brute force. Young writes: “The task of the colonial state was to discover, codify, and map an ethnic geography for their newly conquered domains, according to the premise that the continent was inhabited by ‘tribal man.’ This ethnic template, as imagined by the coloniser, became the basis for administrative organisation.” Parsons adds that “faced with a confusing range of fluid ethnicities when they conquered Kenya, colonial officials sought to shift conquered populations into manageable administrative units.”
Thus colonialism imposed its own version of order, superimposed its idea of tribes bounded within district boundaries on this ethnic patchwork, and even created an entirely new “traditional” administrative structure in the form of tribal chiefs who were actually state employees. Young writes of “the illusion that colonial ethnic mappings were historically authentic”. In this way, the state created the tribe which, in turn, became, as Parsons states, “the basic unit of government, education, labour, law, and most importantly land tenure.” The late Prof Terence Ranger, in his famous 1983 essay on The Invention Of Tradition in Colonial Africa, shows how invented traditions, both European and African, were a crucial plank in allowing colonial settlers and administrators to “define themselves as natural and undisputed masters of vast numbers of Africans.” Which meant reinventing colonials as feudalistic patriarchs and the African as the tribal savage.
...
The Invention Of Kenya’s Ethnic Communities
By Patrick Gathara for The Elephant - Speaking truth to power
... For many people, both on the continent and outside it, the idea of tribe – with its connotations of strong, primitive, primordial ethnicity and ancient cultural traditions – is an indispensable part of African identity. ...
... Africans are first and foremost seen as tribesmen or tribeswomen and tribe is taken for granted as the best explanation for their actions. This idea is so deeply ingrained that few ever bother to question it.
Yet question it we should. For rather than something indelibly encoded into the African genetic make-up and over which one exercises little choice, tribe turns out to be largely an artificial construct. The fact is, there is a marked difference between how ordinary Africans, including Kenyans, think of tribe and its origins and what history and social science has to say about it.
To begin with, just what is a tribe? Even this question turns out to be not as straightforward as some would have us believe. “Tribe has no coherent meaning” wrote Dr. Christopher Lowe of Boston University in his 1997 paper “Talking about ‘Tribe’: Moving from Stereotypes to Analysis”. “If by tribe we mean a social group that shares a single territory, a single language, a single political unit, a shared religious tradition, a similar economic system, and common cultural practices, such a group is rarely found in the real world,” he wrote.
What? But people do identify as Kikuyus or Luos, no? And they have done this for ages, haven’t they? Well, yes and no. People have always banded together in groups in search of security. As they grew, such groups, initially defined by kinship relations, developed common ways of responding to and relating with the world around them, as well as systems to manage relations within the group. But since the world kept changing, so did these groups. Some were subsumed into others, some got separated and developed along different paths, others disappeared altogether. Customs and languages changed. The idea that our current ethnic communities have survived unchanged from ancient times is plainly false. As Prof. Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College in the US says, “‘Tribal’ and/or ethnic identities have never been primordial and immutable, in Africa or elsewhere.”
The politicisation of ethnicity
In fact, our current ethnic formations – some of which did not even exist a century ago – and our understanding of how they relate to each other, are the products of much more recent events. “What is a tribe?” asks Mahmood Mamdani, the Executive Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research. “It is very largely a creation of laws drawn up by a colonial state which imposes group identities on individual subjects and thereby institutionalises group life… Above all, tribe was a politically driven, totalising identity.”
“The politicisation of ethnic identity began with the colonial experience,” says Prof. Kimani Njogu in the recent Africa Uncensored documentary titled In Tribe We Trust. According to the book Ethnicity and African Politics by Crawford Young, “although the ethnic labels… have pre-colonial origins, they became comprehensive and rigidly ranked categories only in the colonial period; they were heavily influenced by imperial codifications and further transformed by politicised actions in the last half-century.”
Clearly, pre-colonial peoples had their ideas as to who they were and how they related to the world around them. But what we call tribes today bears little semblance to the ever-changing aboriginal identities they fashioned and would probably be completely unrecognisable to them. In any case, the idea that today’s ethnic communities necessarily grew out of kinship relations is bogus.
However, for a colonial administration that required order and control in order to facilitate its extractive aim, such inexactitude was unacceptable. Confronted with the reality of the diversity on the African continent, the European colonisers tried to hammer it into compliance with their preconceived ideas. Much of this was accomplished using administrative measures and backed up by brute force. Young writes: “The task of the colonial state was to discover, codify, and map an ethnic geography for their newly conquered domains, according to the premise that the continent was inhabited by ‘tribal man.’ This ethnic template, as imagined by the coloniser, became the basis for administrative organisation.” Parsons adds that “faced with a confusing range of fluid ethnicities when they conquered Kenya, colonial officials sought to shift conquered populations into manageable administrative units.”
Thus colonialism imposed its own version of order, superimposed its idea of tribes bounded within district boundaries on this ethnic patchwork, and even created an entirely new “traditional” administrative structure in the form of tribal chiefs who were actually state employees. Young writes of “the illusion that colonial ethnic mappings were historically authentic”. In this way, the state created the tribe which, in turn, became, as Parsons states, “the basic unit of government, education, labour, law, and most importantly land tenure.” The late Prof Terence Ranger, in his famous 1983 essay on The Invention Of Tradition in Colonial Africa, shows how invented traditions, both European and African, were a crucial plank in allowing colonial settlers and administrators to “define themselves as natural and undisputed masters of vast numbers of Africans.” Which meant reinventing colonials as feudalistic patriarchs and the African as the tribal savage.
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
Africa's Growing Interest In Building Megacities and Skyscrapers
- Senegal
Diamniadio Lake City
via Semer Group
Diamniadio Lake City (DLC) is the vibrant new heart of Diamniadio in Senegal. It’s a city within the city and the capital’s jewel in the crown given its national significance. As Dakar’s rising main residential, business and leisure destination, it offers the highest quality services and recreational facilities.
...
via Gianni Ranaulo Design
Dakar Waterfront from Gianni Ranaulo Design on Vimeo.
Dakar Waterfront
Dakar, Senegal
Client: Co. De Phalsbourg
280.000 m²
Commercial & Residential
Design and Project Architect
Concept Stage
Mall of Dakar - Diam Park from Gianni Ranaulo Design on Vimeo.
Mall of Dakar - Diam Park
Dakar, Senegal
Client: Teyliom Group CI
80.000 m²
Commercial & Leisure
Design and Project Architect
Under Construction
- Kenya
Machakos New City
via countyMachakos
The new Machakos City is a modern metropolis to be set on an initial 2,200 acres of land in Machakos town.
The city will feature, bold, smart buildings that capture the new trend of the times in a well planned landscape. The Cities environment will be captured by the use of solar for most of the lights, huge windows to allow lights, water tanks to harvest water and recycling of water for use in lush and beautiful gardens. ...
Konza Technology City
via ICT Authority Kenya
Konza Techno City aims to foster the growth of the technology industry in Kenya. It is a Kenya Vision 2030 flagship project, as part of the national blueprint to create a competitive and prosperous nation with a high quality of life by 2030. The Government of Kenya hired the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 2009 to serve as Transaction Advisor to guide and advice on project implementation. Several feasibility studies have been completed and 5,000 acres of land, formerly known as Malili Ranch.
CYTONN TOWERS
via Cytonn Investments
#CytonnTowers is situated on a 4-acre land in Nairobi’s Kilimani area and upon completion, is set to become Nairobi’s premier business, shopping, entertainment, and residential address as it epitomizes set class standards for real estate.
- Nigeria
Eko Atlantic
via Surprising Lagos
One of the first impressive developments to rise in the Marina District is Azuri Peninsula. This world-class building is part of a long-term programme to combine beautifully crafted homes with effortlessly luxurious living – befitting this stunning location.
...
via Ettore MUSOLINO
Lagos is the economic capital of Nigeria, a major driving force behind Nigeria’s economic growth and is poised to take a leading role in African economic ranking.
Today some of the major concerns of investors are uncertain legislative and financial framework, working and living conditions, traffic congestions, availability and reliability of utilities, security, schooling and healthcare.
...
Centenary City
via Centenary City Official
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
To Catch A Dream by Jim Chuchu
To Catch A Dream from The NEST Collective on Vimeo.
Ajuma - a grieving widow - is desperate to stop her recurring nightmares. In an effort to end them once and for all, she explores a forgotten fairytale remedy that leads her to unexpected discoveries. To Catch A Dream is The NEST Collective's second fashion film project in collaboration with Chico Leco. Starring Ajuma Nasenyana. Get the soundtrack at http://thisisthenest.bandcamp.com
Sunday, November 16, 2014
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- Deocliciano Okssipin Vieira, aka Ochyming
- Lisboa, Portugal
- Learning to better myself.