
Top40under40,2025. Agro-ecologist. Works at ∩ Food,Seed sovereignty,Indigenous foods, People,Biodiversity,Climate,Policy.Runs @thehummingbirdf. Opinions = mine
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Seed sovereignty reigns in Kenya!
Punitive sections of the seed and plant varieties act , have been declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL by the High Court in Machakos.
Farmers are free to save,share, and exchange their indigenous seeds.
One of my best work's ever for my country Kenya
Kenyan Smallholders farmers should not be punished by law for sharing,selling and exchanging indigenous seeds. #Seedsovereignty @FoodSovIreland @Greenpeaceafric @GRAIN_org
Do not impose your standards on me. I WILL DISAPPOINT YOU! 😂
I study and post traditional foods of the Abanyala that have nourished communities for years.
If that's cringe to you deal with it.
Claire Nasike Akello retweeted
34 acres of Ngong Road Forest are at risk. A boundary variation must’nt legitimise occupation of public forest land. Parliament, EACC and KFS must uphold the law. Our forests are not for sale.
Read the full statement: bit.ly/3VGnPT6
#SaveNgongRoadForest #SaveOurForests
The amount of broken french I have spoken this week in Geneva is unmatched.😂 @AFKenya I am so ready for the conversation workshops! 😂
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Is he done ranting about the 24K I pay for his housing scam because kuna hii 43k I pay every month for his SHA scam we also need to discuss. Tukimaliza hio ndio tuongee juu ya the 500k in PAYE he takes every single month and splashes on tea and mandazi pale state house all the while insulting us the taxpayers that carry the burden of his greed. In 2027 we are cutting the fat out of our budget to bring relief to all Kenyan workers. The housing levy will go with Ruto.
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This idea that I should be worried about getting a visa to America simply because I have an opinion is actually part of the problem we need to address as Africans. For the longest time, we have been made to believe that criticizing these so called “first world countries” might cost us an opportunity to visit them, and sadly, that fear has kept so many people silent.
I have always believed that these visa restrictions exist by design. You make people so desperate for access to your country that they become afraid to question you, while making millions from visa applications that don’t even guarantee entry. Meanwhile, we are busy welcoming citizens of these same countries into our nations, some without even requiring a visa.
I think we have spent far too long giving these countries power over us, including the power to determine what we can and cannot say about them , yet they say the worst about us.Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but the winds of change will blow across Africa.
We will make Africa Great Again!!And I genuinely hope we get to a point where no African feels the need to silence themselves just to qualify for a visa.
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More gaps in construction quality: we have kerbstones sinking or falling over on Uhuru Hwy.
Can @KeNHAKenya demand better workmanship from the contractor?
Claire Nasike Akello retweeted
Uproar Over Aberdare Logging:
Outrage over ongoing logging in Aberdare Forest
Nyandarua leaders and locals want logging stopped
Badilisha: Logging will affect water catchment areas
Mkung: Saw millers are cutting mature, over-mature trees
#CitizenWeekend
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The US says more than 1,000 Kenyans were fraudulently recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine after being promised jobs in security or construction.
The report alleges that senior Kenyan government officials colluded with recruitment agencies.
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I enjoyed walking here. Unfortunately, all the beautiful jacarandas have been sacrificed for road expansion, it will take many years bfo new trees grow. If this section will remain a pedestrian walkway, why cut down the trees? Why not design the project around existing trees?
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Nakuru County. One month apart.
They wanted more space for pedestrians, so they cut down the beautiful jacaranda trees. Someone once said that corruption alone does not explain why our counties, and the country at large, struggle to develop but also inadequate education, limited exposure, and appointing people who have neither formal training nor practical knowledge of the departments they lead.
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Was the milk shortage addressed at Agriculture summit? Feed costs? Price of eggs and meat?
Claire Nasike Akello retweeted
The High Court's Judgement in the case against the National Fertiliser Subsidy Programme is a victory for the rule of law. In its judgment of 6 October, the High Court upheld LSK’s challenge on two critical fronts, the unlawful failure to constitute the Fertilizer and Animal Foodstuffs Board, and NCPB’s violation of farmers’ consumer rights through the sale of non-conforming fertilizer. Despite objections to the Court's Jurisdiction on grounds of concurrent criminal proceedings already being underway, the Court has affirmed that a prosecution does not discharge the State’s constitutional obligations.
The judgment draws a firm line against government by convenience. A mandatory statutory duty cannot be suspended by restructuring plans or replaced with administrative arrangements. The Court did not assume that constituting the Board would have prevented the scandal, it affirmed something more fundamental; the Executive must obey the law, including when compliance requires it to act. Inaction is not beyond constitutional scrutiny.
For farmers, the Court affirmed that rights attach to the goods they receive, not to the eventual outcome of a criminal trial. NCPB’s responsibility to supply fertilizer of reasonable quality did not depend on proving who introduced the defect or establishing criminal intent. Article 46 provides an independent constitutional safeguard. Citizens do not have to wait for a conviction before the State can be held answerable for violating their rights.
This victory establishes the wrong, the next task is to secure meaningful correction. The judgment grants neither compensation nor a deadline for constituting the Board, leaving important work unfinished. Government should fulfil the statutory duty, and farmers with outstanding losses should now pursue properly evidenced claims. The principle is now unmistakable. Public power carries public duties, and those duties are enforceable. The rule of law wins when government is reminded that compliance is an obligation.
Claire Nasike Akello retweeted
Replying to @InyoungDavid
What has he done to transform the agricultural sector during his tenure?
Lol. Just pay for toastmasters ujifunze leadership, public speaking and network with your peers. Social climbing itakuacha na bad taste kwa mdomo.
Recall John Mbadi’s comment that rising soda consumption signals increased disposable income
Kenya’s Agricultural Sector Transformation Strategy (2019-2029) also links processed food consumption to agricultural transformation
But what about our public health &food sovereignty?
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Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.
You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.
You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.
You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.
You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.
You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.
Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.





































