Nature-Climate Justice enthusiast || YALE ELTI-TFL Certificate Program fellow || Co-Coordinator @INUKAAfrika_
Nairobi, Kenya
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Peter Bulimo retweeted
Every African should see this video of a bilateral discussion between President Emmanuel Macron of France and representatives from Burkina Faso.
No one has made me happier for and prouder of Africa than the ladies in the video. Ibrahim Traoré has the best brains around him.✍️
Peter Bulimo retweeted
“Why am I here?”
If I can’t answer myself that question in a logical, convincing way, then I’m in the wrong place, with the wrong company, doing the wrong thing, wasting time. If I override that internal valve with excuses influenced by peer pressure, then I deserve the consequences xitter.cf/John63681549/status/20…
Peter Bulimo retweeted
Road speed limit is an engineering design principle and “not arbitrary numbers”.
Engineers at @ntsa_kenya and @KURAroads please kindly share your design calculations and associated assumptions that enabled you to end up with this number “30 kph” as the speed limit on Likoni road.
Let’s talk Engineering to Engineering.
Peter Bulimo retweeted
This has made my night,,hataki story na umbea mingi apewe tu paybill ya sifuna amechoka😂😂
#SisiNdioSifuna
Peter Bulimo retweeted
Europe and America developed by burning coal.
But when it is Africa burning coal to enrich Africans, the Europeans and Americans become bitter and jealous because they believe Africans should remain poor.
They even fund activists to fight the industrialisation of Africa.
Peter Bulimo retweeted
There is a guy who sells fruits outside the Aga Khan Hospital gate & yesterday he developed severe abdominal pain. He was lying by the roadside, crying in agony(Maasai man crying) while people walked past.
When I asked his Maasai colleague to rush him into the hospital, he became visibly distressed. “We can’t afford it,” he said. “We’ll only go to Kenyatta.” ‘We are waiting for the boda’
That moment captured a painful reality: Many Kenyans will die everyday because they can’t afford standard emergency care. No one should have to weigh unbearable pain against the cost of staying alive. Sad country.
A people- they are not governed by their institutions but their character. Leaders dont end up in positions of power by accident. They are a reflection of the very society they govern
I refuse to believe that govt is functionally stupid, yet somehow, we are here- AGAIN!
Mine is just to echo what mwalimu has said
Those attacking Arsenal fans for turning up in huge numbers in Nairobi but not showing up for protests are missing the bigger point.
People do not fail to protest because they love suffering. They fail to protest because Kenyans are not angry enough, not desperate enough and not organized enough to sustain serious resistance. That is the uncomfortable truth.
A football victory march is easy because it is joy, identity, banter, music and vibes. A protest is risk, police, tear gas, arrest, job loss, injury and sometimes death. You cannot compare the two as if people are choosing Arsenal over liberation. People are choosing comfort over sacrifice because the pain has not yet crossed the point where staying home feels more dangerous than going to the streets.
That is why these 8am to 6pm CBD protests, almost arranged like someone is reporting to a job, will never shake a regime properly. People come, shout, run from police, take photos, trend for a few hours and go back home before darkness. The government simply waits them out.
A real people’s movement is not an office-hours activity. It is not something you squeeze between breakfast and supper. It is built when the anger is deep, widespread, fearless and impossible to manage with police trucks and press statements.
So stop blaming Arsenal fans. They have only exposed what we already know. Kenyans can gather when they want to. The problem is that, politically, the country is still not angry enough.
Peter Bulimo retweeted
The debate between Gen Zs and millennials is totally imbalanced because we are comparing people at very different stages of life, under very different burdens, and then pretending the answers are already clear.
Gen Zs are right to say they are bold, outspoken and less willing to tolerate humiliation, especially in workplaces, politics and society. That is a good thing, and Kenya has benefited from that courage. But millennials are also not weak simply because many learnt how to endure bad systems, survive quietly, keep jobs, swallow pride and carry responsibilities without making noise every day.
The truth is that we may not get the real answer now. We will only know when Gen Zs are in their 30s and 40s, with children in school, ageing parents to support, rent or mortgages to pay, medical bills arriving without warning, loans hanging over them, and entire households depending on one salary.
That is when life tests political courage, workplace courage and social courage differently. It is easy to say people should walk away from oppressive spaces when you are mostly carrying yourself. It becomes more complicated when your resignation, rebellion or public confrontation can immediately affect your children, your parents, your spouse and everyone who eats from your table.
So maybe millennials were tough in survival while Gen Zs are tough in confrontation, but the debate is not complete until both generations have faced the same weight of adult responsibility.
Let us wait and see whether the same fire remains when life adds school fees, hospital bills, dependants, debt and the fear of one wrong move collapsing a whole family.
Until then, this argument is interesting, but it is not settled......
Peter Bulimo retweeted
General knowledge is the highest-compounding asset a human can own and almost nobody treats it that way.
Every fact you already know makes the next fact cheaper to learn. A person who understands the French Revolution reads a news article about a modern protest and pattern-matches against stored structure: class dynamics, bread prices, information cascades, the role of a radicalized middle class. A person without that background parses every sentence from scratch. Same article, 10x the cognitive cost, a fraction of the retained meaning.
This is why knowledge gaps widen over a lifetime instead of closing. The person who read 50 books by age 25 can read the 51st in half the time the person with zero books takes to read their first. Comprehension speed scales with prior structure. Retention scales with existing hooks. Curiosity scales with the density of unresolved questions you're already carrying.
The effect compounds across domains. Knowing basic chemistry makes cooking make sense. Knowing basic statistics makes news headlines make sense. Knowing basic history makes current politics make sense. Each domain you enter lowers the activation energy for every adjacent one.
An hour spent learning something random in your twenties pays interest for 60 years. An hour spent on TikTok decays in 20 minutes.
The library is the highest-yielding asset class ever created. Nobody buys it because the returns don't show up on a brokerage statement.
Peter Bulimo retweeted
I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point
Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home.
Nothing in that system is standing still.
The Moon is moving.
The Earth is moving.
Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here.
Adjust here.
Come back here.
And unlike nepa light, it infact works.
There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side.
I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything.
But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...
Peter Bulimo retweeted
I don’t rate people who’re willing to live like this for years enough to queue with them for an election!
