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There's a condescending way y'all discuss Elsa, Rono, Azziad and co. And it's mostly those in a different generation - Millennials and Gen X. And it's hilarious because some of you your lives are the epitome of messy but you somehow feel you're better than them lmao
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Look at this cry baby, these are normal and small small things that many women out there are shouldering.
When Joram Kimani’s wife left after the birth of their son, he found himself facing an impossible choice: go to work to survive, or stay home with a baby who had no one else.
This Kenyan father chose not to leave his child behind.
Joram had previously worked collecting taxi fares and raising pigs. He sold his animals to buy a motorcycle and began working as a motorcycle taxi driver.
But with his son barely two years old and no one available to care for him, Joram began carrying the little boy inside his coat while working.
According to his account to Afrimax, he still doesn’t understand why his wife left. He says he would even welcome her back.
Their home is vulnerable during heavy rain, and the two struggle to afford the basic necessities of life. Joram has appealed for help—not because he wants sympathy, but because he’s trying to provide a safer future for his child.
“She abandoned me when I needed her most,” he said.
Behind every fare he collects and every journey he makes is a father trying to keep his son fed, protected, and close.
Sometimes, a parent’s love looks like carrying the entire weight of the world—and a little child—on the road to work.
Habibi 🧚 retweeted
Just transited through Addis for the first time and this is genuinely the 7th circle of hell.
The growth of that music scene is 10/10, but we can miss the days before handbag assaults, shoving, soap bubbles in your face and fans clacking through the drop. Heshima ilikuwa mingi fr, we didn’t even stand next to the DJ.
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Habibi 🧚 retweeted
Manze, like which water are you using for your gun? Tap water? What soap are you using for your bubbles? Kipande? No you got contaminated water droplets landing on your clothes, face, drinks and god forbid your mouth.
Habibi 🧚 retweeted
As someone to whom this does not come naturally I believe women but also moms in particular do this bc they have an acute awareness of the compounding interest of accumulating dysfunction. It’s vivid to them bc they bear the brunt of it, and it can accumulate from nothing rapidly
Anko ashawaambia ‘Noted’ pale Alchemist ni kama you shall see bad things. 😂 He’s a great performer majuu and in S.A.
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The so called epitome of forgiveness could not forgive his wife for infidelity. She carried his name for 27 years while he was in jail, made sure the people never forgot him & when he became free he divorced her but forgave his oppressors. Mandela is a fraud
Nelson Mandela invited the prosecutor who sent him to prison for 27 years to lunch. Then he introduced him to the cameras.
In the video below he says it himself: "In actual fact he is the fellow who sent me to jail."
His name was Percy Yutar. In 1963 he was the state prosecutor in the Rivonia Trial. He called the ANC a communist terrorist organisation and asked the judge to apply the full weight of the law. The crimes could carry the death penalty.
Mandela got life.
In 1995, now President of South Africa, he sat Yutar at his table. The lunch was kosher, for him.
A reporter says this is the man who could have had Mandela sentenced to death. Mandela answers: "That is a wrong statement, but I'll deal with that." Then: "That is now passed."
Yutar speaks: "In what other country in the world would you have the head of the government inviting someone to lunch who prosecuted him 30 years ago?"
Then he asks God to bless Mandela with good health.
Years later Yutar claimed his charges saved the defendants' lives. Mandela's own lawyer called that self-aggrandising.
Some people say this was the greatest act of forgiveness of the century. Others say it was politics, and the prosecutor was rewriting his past.
Could you sit down to lunch with the man who took 27 years of your life?
