Kenya tops the list in Africa in terms of medals scooped in the just ended competition and fifth globally. That’s an excellent performance to say the least.

Names like Faith Kipyegon, Ferdinand Omanyala, Emmanuel wanyonyi, Moraa just to mention but a few deserves a specials place in the annals of our history with their names written with golden letters. They have  done us proud!

The aforementioned heroes and heroines have moving stories on how they got themselves where they are. How they beat every odd and believed in nobody else but themselves. The proverbial YES I CAN must have been their mantra in all their facets of life in this process.

As it was rightly put by one of  the renown leaders in our country that at some point in life you need to stop saying you’re from a poor background and understand you are the background. This will help many more especially us young people who always want sympathy with this line, ‘you know I come from a poor background ‘.

It’s high time for us to pick ourselves from whatever background we are coming from and know how much we are worth in terms of talents and abilities. Lets make a debut and unleash the great potential we have that world is desperate for. Lets showcase to the world what we are made of that has nothing to do with where we came from!

In my reading spree, I just marveled at the wads of cash our compatriots will be jetting back with from the competition it’s just mind boggling on how they have rightly been rewarded the fortune from a very short time.

A gold was being rewarded whopping Ksh10,118 500! Omanyala who unfortunately didn’t perform as expected, he become positioning 7 in  the sprint but bagged over 800K! Am tempted to use the word Talanta Hela at this very point! Because that’s what it is.

I know many of young people are crying there is no job, true there isn’t .The system we have cannot absorb all the graduates from universities and colleges every year. Every year about 800,000 graduates are released into the market. This means we need roughly 3000 jobs to be created everyday to least satisfy this numbers plus them who are already in the field.

This is not practically possible. What if we identify what we are good at and be so good at it and eventually monetize it. I don’t think hii ni story ya jaba. It’s possible to have just shared a little about it and there are tons of examples around us that are alive and practical.

We have gold reservoirs in us, we just need to realize that.

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You are probably fidgeting, wondering where this headed. For the sake of a glimpse recap, there is this Uasin Gishu scholarship fiasco that has taken the centre of our news.

Suffice to say, Mercy Tarus is one of the people who were scammed from this program that was to take students to pursue further studies in Finland.

I’m not here to talk about the whole hullabaloo and fracas of the program that went south but this iron lady, allow me to refer to her that way because she is – did something that few of us who are youths couldn’t dare think of.

The 24 -year-old Kabarak University graduate showcased the power of words when she oozed uncensored sensible words to address the cesspool in our leadership as a country.

Her name is synonymous to courage and audacity. She has made us remember the power we have as citizenry that the constitution has lavished on us in chapter one of our constitution that states all sovereign power belongs to the people of Kenya. It is exercised differently but I am fascinated by how she made us realise it.

We’ve had it for the longest time since promulgation but we’ve never believed in its effect. The way she called out leaders and mentioned in graphics their ills in the scholarship fiasco gave me a sigh of relief.

We are indeed a great nation in prospect. We are on our knees as a country due to these heartless, so-called leaders who take advantage of their people. It sucks!

The last time I checked, the Kenyan populace is made up of 75.1% youths. This totals to individuals below the age of 35 years. We are a juggernaut if we can have the boldness and courage of Mercy Tarus.

It has dawned on us from what Mercy demonstrated that we are in the state we are in because we have not woken up and called them out for perpetuating the ills in our society and country at large.

It’s high time we need to rise up and say enough is enough. We need to be audacious in our influence. Let us be bold and authentic to end what we have been through since independence. We’re 60 years old, this is not how we should look at 60 years as a nation.

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The captions that are always on those short videos on you tube around this time are normally real titbits that leaves one drooling for more. ”9 security details of the most guarded person on earth, 4th will shock you’ just to mention one that was memorable. Who can’t click the button to be shocked by the fourth security detail of the most guarded fella under the sun?

Before I digress, leaving you calculating the the correlation between the topic herein and transitions of American Presidents and their top notch security details. Here is the crux, the amount of human resource carried by these individuals who earns the privilege democratically to sit inside that famous oval office is worth that guarding.

I may not be the right person to ask this. I don’t claim authority on it. The care I have for you doesn’t allow me wait be to be endorsed to be one before addressing it. I see you in deep pensive mood wondering, what’s this? Gatchu, don’t you worry. How many of us knows how precious is the highly coiled gray matter between our ears; the brain? How much security have we invested for it to remain healthy, I don’t need to be a Jewish prophet to say out of it outpours breath of wealth!

Lets have an upclose of all these and address this matter at length because it has some unique strength. Can we quantify this investment because the results are highy qualitative? If we take care of it, it earns us beautiful names: Super intelligentsia, wise and sundry, worse if we don’t take care of it. We will be called names that many people would never want to be associated with. Who will ever want to be called a streaker or mad? At least mentally impaired person, but why should you go to those extremities when it’s not a billion dollar project that you will console yourself by saying, I lacked the money so I ended up here.

Let’s me even bring it closer so that you don’t feel this is rocket science for somebody else not you.Recently W.H.O released stats that positioned Kenya at a very critical position for us not to assume this at all! 4th in the continent and 9th in the globe with the most depressed persons! As if that it wasn’t enough, DCI blew it, 483 have died by suicide in three months! My good friend somewhere, no mentioning of names, educated me that we don’t say someone committed suicide but died by suicide. Let me now brag with the new knowledge y’all.

The aforementioned statistics are so moving. We need tons of time with ourselves if this is anything to go by. Help me do this, close your eyes, I am serious by the way after reading this statements, please close your eyes.

Here we go! I am anxious all day. Most of the time I cry for no reason. My energy level is 0% and I no longer feel hungry. I think I need help. I don’t know what to do next.I don’t how I feel about it. Can I have someone to speak to. I need a long rest from everything.

Assumably, you closed your eyes after reading every bit of the statements. Anything you closely or distancely relate with after those reads? If not you must be staying in the safest place on earth where very few may be only you probably lives.

This tells you it’s ok when you don’t feel okay, It’s not ancestors haunting you and you feel weird and prematurely decide go for a solitary life because you feel so off. No, it’s ok. Speak it out if you find out it disturbs you psychologically.

Who is your confidant that you normally tell anything and everything? This is the ripe time to go for their company as long as this will go to relieve you this pressure.If you don’t have one and you need help, gatchu, call this toll free number for professional assistance (1199) by Red Cross or Befrienders Kenya on 0722178177.

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Dr.George Simiyu could speak some soothing lullaby in those classes that tempted us to wish each other good night on the onset of every class. Metaphysics, rationalism, empiricism and sundry were the concepts there in. Just to mention but a few that my cerebral cortex managed to store without corrupting the file.

Something that has given me this beautiful reminiscence is a concept on pre-convention, convention and post-convention, so that I don’t leave anyone agape, wondering what animals are these. Speedliy to bring us on the same page. Convention is something that is accepted in the society as morally good or to be followed. This plays a major role in who we became and affect our decision making and thinking.

Under pre-convention we have individuals who entirely rely on others for decision making, includes children under 10 years, mad people etcetera. Convention as have already said are the ideal principles, values, that are accepted by the community. They may not be necessarily ultimate. Arguably, under post convention, the crux and the reason I pulled my pen to spit this piece. Here is where, individuals in this category, thinks outside what the society believes and craft their own modus operandi of doing things and thinking.

Most people here are always with an insatiable thirst for change and reforms from the status quo. Mark you it’s not subversive unless you take it negatively. Very few are found in this category. It’s not reserved though.

Linear-thinking is the biggest enemy of innovation and creativity. We need to be warned in this generation where innovation and creativity are the game charger actions. If you live under the sun, like I do you must have come across this fellas, not to be surprised may be it has come from our own mouths saying ‘however much try it always fail’. ‘In our community people don’t excel much’. ‘We don’t have enough resources in our community to become anything’. There is no equity and equality in our country, so I can’t be anything ‘ Are these statements relatable to us?

Late senator Victor Prengei, may his soul rest in eternal peace. He was so courageous to beat every odd in his way and fought with a positive mindset from a minority community called Ogiek. He rose to leadership ranks until he became a competent senator. For the first time in history Ogiek had a representation in the Senate.

Who doesn’t know Prof. Hellen Sambili? You must be a stranger in Jerusalem if your hand is going up. Formerly minister for higher education, that’s a very serious portfolio y’all. Even before going there , just attaining the professorship, ain’t a joke from them that have that experience myself excluded, hehe.

The reason why I have hand picked her is the story I heard about her in a some conference where she was the keynote speaker. She comes from a community that know nothing and believe nothing on women leadership. She rose against the conventional and defied gravity and she became who she is! An incisive and an astitute mind that many admire and an inspiration to tons of people including men from her own community who were stabling blocks to her unstoppable dreams. MINDSET dear reader is of essence here.

Safara Kathimiti for those who know him: street urchin in Nairobi. From streets he is now a clout, a wave because he believes he can become anything regardless of where he is at the moment. A Destitute and with nothing attractive. The hit maker of ‘Mungu bariki chokora’ is a force to be watched. He is already a social media sensation. Shout outs to Mungai Eve for giving him a platform to showcase the positivity he has that needs to come out here for impact. Moving from potential to performance. I say it again, our MINDSET needs resetting for anything for us to be rated.

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The ugly drums of bad campaigns started long time ago. The tune was sought and the ‘dancery’ is well prepared. Ambitions have been declared. This time round from the statistics of 2019 census, everyone in political class is drooling profusely over this numbers. They say they don’t lie. Whopping 75.1% of Kenyan population is 35 years and below.

Okey, that has not moved you let me borrow acumen from actuaries, this fellas are trained to use numbers to predict future. 75.1% of 47million, rough estimate of our population is a solid 35.5 million! Numbers don’t lie right? This is a juggernaut y’all.Back to the song excerpt by Nyashiski called Mungu pekee. Enyewe hapa we need God only to make us woke from the stupor we have always found ourselves ever since time immemorial.

Lets avoid being treated as bunches of nincompoop by these people. Lets not be deceived this time round. From the numbers no doubt we are a massive force that should be feared by anyone. Lets be game changers for the first time in history. Its an opportune time for us to say no to the enticements from the manipulative politics that comes from perpetrators who are full/fool of themselves. Not even us they have in their mind. We are just being used for their own good. It sucks! Let’s be very independent in our approach to this electioneering period this time. Lets be vigilant and sober minded to make our beloved country great. It’s now on her knees, let’s rescue our habitat.

I rally us, lets show everyone that things have changed and we are no longer easy-goers this time, neither are we do-nothings type. We are young energetic with highly coiled grey matter between our ears. Let’s show them what we have on top of the neck isn’t a swollen neck but functional head to make decisions assertively.

Time has come, and it’s now here to stop being misused by political classes to cause chaos and blunders in our great country in prospect. Peace, I’m off.

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For us who are in cooperate space, there are these odysseys we have from our school days. We worked our behinds off with only two, not well arranged questions; we knew the subjects/units we did in those levels of schooling. The question here was “what are we doing?” we could cormfotably answer aptly.

We knew subjects or units we did so well, the scope and the content. The other thing was, we knew pretty well how to do them. I mean who didn’t know how to do what we were required to do in school. This does not mean that we did not have struggles to execute some. We were gifted differently, some were quick learners and other slow in allowing the concept infiltrate our cerebral cortex.

This is not my point but mine is, we had ideas of how we were supposed to do with all factors kept constant. I am a bit biased to use a school setting but the crux of if everything is how we view and approach life.

My climax is here, this is what I am convinced is the problem. See how you are intently looking at me as if am the savior of the world, he he, Easy, am just musing randomly but objectively. The ‘why’ questions should have always been prioritized in this endeavors. To revisit the aforementioned examples, did we ever asked ourselves why we are doing calculus for my friends actuaries, who did calculus 1,2,3,4 up to I don’t know 10. Before answering the ‘what question’; the unit code, when and where the classes will be lectured from and ‘how questions ‘ this led us to befriend those who grasped the concept effortlessly so that we don’t get nightmares during exams.

We rarely asked ourselves why calculus, don’t stone me if you ever did. The purpose of anything and everything we are doing is on trial here. This goes miles to help us strategize, grow or go for a new discipline with eyes fixed on the end goal, purpose.

The reason why we have substandard products and services is because the dourers are so obsessed with ‘what’ they are doing not to miss on ‘how ‘they are doing they are doing but scores terribly on ‘why’ they are doing it. Lets have our WH’s questions rejigged. Peace, I am out.

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It was exciting to note that even the president himself was well conversant with the ‘memes’ that would always circulate on social media, especially WhatsApp statuses. It is fascinating to hear it from His Excellency, the president! Mark you, he ought to be amongst the busiest fellows in the republic because of the nature of his role but funnily he had time to throw glances at the ‘memes’, it’s cool right? The gist of all this is the creative acumen of these honorables with their interesting pen named ‘meme Lords’.

Their creative work behind the scene is consumed by so many including the commander in chief of the armed forces, come on! That tells you they can easily make a communique to His Excellency without those calorie-consuming procedures one goes through when you want attention from the country’s CEO. This has given me ease to come up with a say of this generation that goes,’The shortest route to the president’s desk is through creative presentation on social media’. End of my quote. I can’t wait to be quoted in some speeches by some colossal figures in some massive gatherings.

Much credit goes to these industrious guys who are always behind the curtains, incognito. They positively use their ingenuity by tailoring these nicely and timely ‘memes’ that really convey messages, especially at such a time. Who will have guts to raise a hand to deny having feasted on these delicacies that the cookeries are from these less recognized individuals. You know very well how you are always engrossed on your small screen with a smiley face, courtesy of “meme lords”.

They have a very unique sense of communicativeness that’s packaged with lucidity not mentioning the mind blowing humor that the package is normally wrapped in. You remember the creative excerpt from the daily briefs by the CS Kagwe, presented in musical form. I can read how you are nodding to the “if I can gerrit you can gerrit tune”. It’s entertaining at the same time informing creatively. How I pray that these efforts will not go unrewarded. I can be a crusader, just for their sake! Your Excellency, if this handwriting of mine is legible to you and I have you in my audience, please consider these legends in the payment plans that you set aside for the entertainers. Does anyone agree with me that the product of these buddies is a very good therapy during this time , when many are squeezed and are under duress because of this ugly monstrous contagion. Their work is also very informative as I aforementioned.

I need to come from nowhere and say I’m proudly a Kenyan. See how you are looking at me with those eyes that seem to take the role of the mouth and mumble to me, ‘What’s good about being Kenyan’. Well, let’s have a wrap up of this. Here is the beauty. Kenyans have recently been ranked the happiest people in East Africa! See how you are fidgeting in disbelief! Kenyans have a positive outlook of life and capacity to laugh at very serious issues like corona, that is hitting everyone mercilessly. This is the reality that has led Kenyans to relieve their pain on social media with their usual satirical jokes, even when it’s hurting like hell.

If you have forgotten let me resuscitate you from the chronic amnesia you’ve innocently found yourself in. Do you know the decision that was arrived at by the CS for foreign affairs to salvage Kenyans who were trapped in foreign countries especially in China, where they were being mistreated was fuelled and midwifed by the loyal Kenyan netizens who leveraged the space very well to trend the concern and it was actioned ? You now know that.

Our social media presence gives us an opportunity to exercise our constitutionally given supremacy. For us who read everything else but the constitution, allow me to sink this important point in our cranium. Chapter one of our constitution is the sovereignty of the people, who we are. I charge you. Let’s be positive and invest our acumen in this big space called social media for the betterment of our lives. I rest my case.

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Derek Chauvin, a police officer, knelt on George Floyd’s neck for almost 9 minutes while poor, helpless Flyod was in handcuffs and lying face down on the street, begging for his life and repeatedly saying, “I can’t breathe!” This fell on deaf ears. A second and third officers further restrained Floyd while the fourth one prevented bystanders from intervening. During final three minutes Floyd was motionless and unconscious while merciless Chauvin ignored onlookers’ pleas to get his knee off Floyd’s neck which he didn’t until medics asked him to.

Floyd’s brutal death triggered demos and protests in more than 75 US cities and around the world against police brutality, racism and accountability. Phew!! I have used all my graphical acumen to depict with exactitude the evil that happened under the sun then. Sorry I didn’t mean to be creepy.

Personally, I’m nicely clad in dark skin and I’m grateful to my genius designer. “Alicheza kiyeye” to create me into this gorgeous being! This drives me into condemning with the strongest words possible this heinous act that’s been narrated. I’m audacious enough to shout at the top of my voice, “every life matters, black life matters!” In such a generation, this act should not be mentioned of anyone anywhere in the globe.

We are supposed to be imbued by now with values and virtues that dignifies everyone without any form of discrimination. We should be enjoying and dancing to the harmony and symphony of this diversity that was designed and purposed by our creator. Did you know that good music in a piano comes from skillful pressing of both black and white keys? For those who this is their forte will tell you how difficult it is to get melodies from only one color key. Ask them.

Wait I don’t have any intentions whatsoever to ravage anything that’s well built. I just beg to be a bit evocative, just a little bit. I should put a disclaimer here that I’m not going bonkers please. I am with all my minds as I ‘nduthis’. Don’t fume in anger and stone me to death. I am bringing some other graphics to you again, please promise me that you’ll save them in PNG or JPEG format for quality viewing, will you?

It got me thinking about somethings we have been embracing so dearly and holding them closely to our bossom, I really don’t know where we got them from. I wish I knew. I am not a weirdo neither am I related to any and am not flippant on this. Why have we always believed that white signifies peace and black evil? Just asking out loud! Wedding gowns are white whereas funeral clads are black, why?Why would someone be blacklisted if they default in paying their loans and not whitelisted huh?

I am not telepathic but I can see how Tala and Branch landers are groggy in the stupor of this reality. Arguably, the worst on this list, unless am convinced that this pieces of art have been and are always done by insensitive racists.This is another evil I’ve seen under the sun, portraits of Satan are always imaged as a black scary ‘nigga’. Quite demeaning!

My sincere hearty appreciations goes to my fellow ‘Ubuntu’ believer who designed those black mannequins I saw in some boutique in Tom Mboya street: where Tom Mboya street meets Haille Sillasie Avenue, Nairobians you ‘gat’ me on this, right? Another evil I’ve seen under the sun is fellas who bleach their skins to escape black complexion. A better way to prove that black lives matters is for us to shun from bleaching our skins and embracing our melanin’s tone. I’d pose this question again, didn’t we embrace racism?

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My Maker purposely moulded me with all acumen to be creative and responsible, in one statement let me say God’s sovereignty VS Human responsibility. How responsible are we to make the world a better place?

We have multitudinous opportunities surrounding us even when it hurts. We are right in the heart of new normal, so how do we work for more?

Let’s be proactive. I will define “proactiveness” as the ability to recognise our responsibility and do something palpable out of it. Let’s give a gander to this C’s that convinced me, with hope it will to you as we sail in this sea of life. Let us be creative to create as we appreciate the undeserving opportunity our creator has generously awarded us.

This needs consistency for us to be competent. Should we be having worries with our capacities that will convince us we are capable, let’s calmly and ‘egolessly’ learn and glean from the eagle.
Eagles for centuries; these seemingly larger-than-life birds have fascinated and inspired us with brilliant characteristics. When an eagle is mentioned what pops out in your mind?

People commonly imagine some enormous hunters soaring above the sky on outsized wings. Indeed eagles are among the world’s largest birds of prey. We venerate them as living symbols of beauty, bravery, courage, honour, pride and determination.

Time and space will not allow me to articulate the umpteen beauties that can be harvested from this behemoth. Allow me pick the strategic characteristics of this bird of prey that jigsaw fit this situation we have found ourselves in with very little or no preparedness. So tragic and unprecedented! We actually have no clues, even the experts said so, on when this dark clouds of Corona virus will stop hovering above us.

Arguably an eagle’s eyes are the strongest in the kingdom Animalia. They have a shocking eyesight that’s approximated to be 4 to 8 times stronger than that of an average human. An eagle is said to be able to spot a rabbit 3.2Km away.

Unbelievable fact! Vision is simply the mind’s eyes. Someone said “What you can see with your mind you can hold with your hands”. How sharp are our mind’s eyes even amidst the ravage of this ugly and monstrous contagion? What are we envisaging with our mind’s eyes with the much time at hand courtesy of the flip side of the pandemic? A very rare phenomenon!!

Eagles love the storms! Eagles are the only birds that love the storms. When all the other birds try to flee from the storm and hide from its fierceness, unbelievably eagles fly into it and use the wind of the storm to rise higher in a matter of seconds. They use pressure of the storm to glide higher without using their own energy.

Metaphorically, storm here is the pandemic we’re facing. What’s our ingenuity in it?. Let’s not be the other fearful birds that hide from the storm but, with entrepreneurial minds, let’s be opportunists and glide higher without our own energy. Let’s swallow our egos and learn from the eagle during this stormy season.

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I got a grip of myself from the stupor of music listening spree when an interruptive call from Ken blew it off. Ken, my ever funny friend, one would never restrain themselves from laughing hysterically by just throwing glances at this human being. He had a hilarious demeanor. “Hey dude! I have just seen you passing by me here, just make a turn around and your eyes will be on me”. I just knew there was something palatable that would be accompanied by some rib cracking laughters that Ken would serve me. I couldn’t wait. It did not take me long to locate this buddy in the thick crowd, he was in conspicuous clad and his funny countenance signalled me his location. Didn’t I say Ken was a cool guy with lots of groovy things? He took me to a serene joint where sugarcane juices were served. The drinks were frothy and tasty, I could not have enough of them.I also enjoyed the beautiful scenery of squeezing sugarcane to let out its very sweet juice.

This unprecedented time we’re in got everyone pants down! If you were prepared, can I see your hands up? I knew it! There is none! Our minds have been squeezed mercilessly by this situation brought about by this ugly monstrous contagion. Many have been left with serious psycho problems because it’s truly overwhelming! Oops! Our minds have been squeezed, and what’s oozing out? Any sweet tasting sap that could be gleaned from this squeezed minds as the aforementioned sugarcane? The COVID -19 season has awarded us a lot of free time. One wakes up only to start sleeping on the coach because their daily schedule is empty as opposed to the times when we had normalcy. This is really mind-squeezing.

What a rare to find opportunity at our disposal! We might never see it again after the ugly COVID- 19 will have been fully combatted. How can we leverage this time to ooz out some ‘pleasantries’? How can we pause to let out our ingenuities and avail them for the world to see? This will leave us never the same again as a mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimension.

Are you a writer? You can ooz out very intriguing articles from the comfort of your quarantine facility. What of them that have ever posed themselves as poets? Ooz out the poetry acumen for the world to enjoy the product of your squeezed mind.

There are a million and one stuffs that our squeezed minds are replete with to show case to the world. Don’t waste this lengthy, precious time at your disposal.

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