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Kampala, Uganda
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Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
The funny thing about these people is that they assume war is cheap. War is the most fucking expensive thing on this planet.
If the British were too broke to hold Kenya in 1960, there is no way they could have paid for 4+ years of war in the 50s when their economy was even worse
We need to once and for all talk and close this nonsense about “our forefathers FOUGHT for Kenya’s independence.” My questions are: Fought who? Where? Because the timeline doesn’t back that flex AT ALL!
🗓️ 1952: Britain declares a State of Emergency in Kenya. The Mau Mau rebellion kicks off. Thousands arrested, detained, tortured & killed.
🗓️ 1956: Dedan Kimathi who was the face of the rebellion is captured. The uprising is basically over. British forces win militarily.
🗓️ 1960: The Mau Mau are long defeated, but Britain is BROKE from World War II, cities bombed, £1.2 trillion in debt, and still owing the U.S.A load-shits of money.
🗓️ 1960–1962: Britain starts the Lancaster House Conferences to draft Kenya’s independence constitution. No guns, no forest, just men in suits sipping tea and negotiating with the empire that’s now too poor to care ☕📜!
🗓️ 1963: Britain finally says, “You know what, just take it.” Independence granted. Jomo Kenyatta who wasn’t even Mau Mau and spent all his life hiding in Sussex and partly in the so called Kapenguria where he was even allowed to have conjugal rights becomes Prime Minister🥲.
So tell me again… who “fought” for Kenya? Because; Mau Mau didn’t win independence, they just exposed the cruelty of colonial rule and the empire didn’t leave from fear, it left from financial exhaustion, global shame, and political inconvenience.
The U.S. and U.N. were like, “Yo, Britain, maybe stop torturing Africans and fix your bombed cities?”
Meanwhile in London, taxpayers were like “we want better hospitals, not another war in the highlands.”
Therefore Independence wasn’t some Rambo moment, it was an economic bailout with flags. Kenya got “freedom”when it became too expensive to cage. The real liberator was financial exhaustion, not machetes, rungus and home made guns that couldn’t fire 10 rounds.
So next time someone yells “our grandfathers Mau Maus fought for this country!” tell them, “nah bro, your grandfathers were victims of empire fatigue.”
I don’t know if you are finding me🥲. Throw stones I have helmet 🪖.
Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
But even so, it still hasn’t reached the absurdity of accusing a lake of trespassing on a man’s property😅
Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
Bc they are never blunt about being encouraging, positive, or supportive. But conveniently blunt when it’s time to put someone in their place or be opinionated.
Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
In 1986 President @KagutaMuseveni went to Rwanda & assured then President Maj Gen. Juvénal Habyarimana that Rwandese refugees in Uganda would never use the country to attack Rwanda. In 1990, four years later, the RPF attacked Rwanda from Uganda with the knowledge & aid of Uganda.
Ahh, I see your IMF cheque cleared.
Civil society groups from Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and other African countries have rejected the name Pearl Sweet, saying Uganda’s oil sector has brought hardship, not sweetness, to the people living closest to it.
“Uganda’s oil projects are anything but sweet,” the CSOs said, adding that the sector had left “a sour taste” in oil host communities, within conservationists, climate campaigners and businesses. @BbegMedia @AfiegoUg
bbegmedia.com/pearl-sweet-no…
Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
Even if it was true It doesn’t change that people died and bled for it. It doesn’t change that THEY WERE WILLING TO TAKE IT THAT FAR.
They were willing to die for this land.
Every time I travel to shaggz I am struck by the fact that THIS IS WORTH DYING FOR.
Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
HR is a feminized barrier to corporate access, actively screening for compliant, conformist, color inside the lines types who sit quietly and finish their worksheets. Then we all collectively scratch our heads when innovation and creativity die off.
Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
Here's an extreme version of religious psychosis. This faction also claimed freedom of worship while coercing poor folks to fast to death over ambient music. Would you still be uncomfortable about criticism or a conversation on regulations in such cases?
The leader of a Kenyan cult and 28 others have been found guilty of murder over the deaths of 190 children and one adult.
Paul Mackenzie was accused of organising a doomsday sect which ordered its followers to starve themselves and their children to death.
Investigators discovered more than 400 bodies from shallow graves after Mackenzie was arrested in 2023.
For more on this story, watch our Unreported World investigation into Mackenzie on YouTube, where Symeon Brown tracked down survivors of his so-called 'death cult'.
Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
When Uber left Uganda in September, I saw a lot of young, ambitious engineers excited about building their own ride-hailing app. Some reached out in my DMs, knowing my background, to ask what it takes.
So let me rewind to 2018.
I joined one of Uganda's biggest ride-hailing companies at the time as an IT assistant. We had to be at the academy by 5am, because riders were sleeping there overnight to get registered. We collected their details, created email accounts, set up hundreds of phones a day and installed the app. Then we went to class to teach the riders how to use it, onboarded them and tested them, because the standard was very high. Some evenings I would get home, lie down, and still hear that ping ringing in my head.
About six months later, a friend and I joined the tech team, which I believe was the best in Uganda at the time. I became the Software Quality Assurance Engineer in charge of the Android passenger app. It was full ownership: no version of that app reached users without my sign-off.
We could see what the app was doing for the market and for people's lives, so we gave it everything. On some days regression testing ran late into the evening, and that is where I learnt the technical side, working next to brilliant engineers, some of whom now work at big tech companies around the world. I was amazed when I learnt what the engineering team and the infrastructure alone cost. I remember one day we had downtime, and when I heard the estimated revenue lost, I could not believe it.
I am sharing this because the app is the part people see. The real work is in the operations behind it: the onboarding team, the support team, the fraud team, people whose work is rarely seen and sometimes ignored. They are the reason the app feels easy.
And it only feels easy until the person using your app has never used a smartphone. You should have seen us teaching riders in Luganda how to use one.
I am not saying it cannot be done. I just want anyone thinking about it to know how much sits behind the app, and the same is true for most software that people's lives depend on.
Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
I hear Nigerians in the UK are changing or shortening their names so their white colleagues can pronounce them comfortably .
Please stop doing this. Your name is part of your identity. Let them learn to pronounce it properly. Never change your name to make others comfortable.
Mwami Kiyimba retweeted
The Ugandan state has a malicious indifference to the life of all Ugandans, bar them, that it is hard to fathom what pit they are digging for everyone.
