The current floods should be treated as emergency. We need emergency communication based on the behaviour we are seeing. Might look basic but pple are driving thro' floods risking multiple lives. Pple need to know what to do and where to go when engulfed. Radio, TV, SM abuzz.

So who is this guy, Cheruiyot Kirui? The Kenyan attempting to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen this season? Some say he is a full recreational Ultra and mountain/trail runner and a part time banker. But briefly...
Mountains:
+ Mt. Manaslu (8163m) - Summit without

Amidst the floods. Highlighting the tremendous odyssey and achievements of our people, co-Africans.

Cheering Cheruiyot on!

Nairobi is a swamp but also has raised areas.
Initial plans of the city had major roads parallel to the river system; construction on raised grounds; + generous parks + open space system to enhance ground water flow management, percolation + drainage. Then 'tugeges' took over.😭

In 1198, the West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanimi from the town of Bilma (in Niger) traveled to the Almohad capital Marakesh (in Morocco), and to Seville (in Spain) where he settled and became a celebrated grammarian and poet of Andalusia
africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-note…

Lamu, Lamu, Lake Natron, Cape Town. #EarthDay

Trophy hunters have killed two more Amboseli tusker elephants in Tanzania.
Be informed they are actively scouting for 2 more elephants.
TZ gov't granted licences for shooting of 4 hence two to go.
Wonder why the monitored big elephants can't be protected from savage hunters

Two more elephants trophy hunted in Tanzania near the Kenyan border – threatening Amboseli’s dwindling tusker population.

⬇️Read more here⬇️
africageographic.com/stories/ambose…

* Pictured: Two Amboseli elephants near Mt. Kilimanjaro (not the hunted elephants)

It's a full moon tonight. Isn't she just so pretty?

Occupational licensing in Kenya is becoming a big joke. Cartelization as regulation. 👇🏾

There's an interesting bill in the National Assembly called The Agricultural Professionals Registration & Licensing Bill, 2024.

The bill provides that:

· One shall not engage in private practise as an agricultural professional unless they are registered by the board that will

Ce peuple est à l'origine du puissant royaume de Borgou entre le Benin et le Nigeria.

Les Baribas ou les Wassangaris sont les maîtres du cheval dans le nord Benin.

Crispin 'Goj' Odhiambo finished top in day one of the draught Championship in Italy.

The tournament runs until Thursday, then on Friday Goj and other Italian player will visit Pope Francis at the Vatican City for blessings.

.Zeinab Badawi any plans for Africa tour/launch?

cc Penguin Books UK

Lakeside city

'...it was a time, a place & a struggle that appear to have been forgotten in history books, it is my sincerest hope that this book will inform younger generations about the contributions that my father & others made to building East Africa & its vibrant Coast' Between Empires...

Angella Okutoyi defeated Russia's Maria Kononova by two straight sets (6-3, 6-0) to qualify to the next round of the W75 Charlottesville.

#RadullKE
#NoWeakness

In reference to my last monologue, how old were you when you realized that the degenerates at ILRI.org are fuelling the spread of opuntia cactus, destroying pastoralists livelihoods? projects.livestockdata.org/livestock-clim…

this bit of Swahili etymology that randomly crossed my timeline immediately after reading samuel catlin's thoughtful analysis on 'the campus' (parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-c…) has me mulling the traces of violence and colonization that live in our everyday language