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Ken Opalo
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Ken Opalo
@kopalo
Dad. Nairobian. Associate Professor at @GeorgetownSFS. Author of Legislative Development in Africa (@CambridgeUP, 2019). Lifetime travel companion of @vwopalo.
- Europeans getting the “Africa Summit” treatment, and not liking it.
- Huge turning point in Kenyan politics. Still wrapping my head around the psychological impact and symbolism of today.
- One of the best things about this current moment is the protesters’ extravagant display of utu. Michango. Blood drives. First aid clinics. Solidarity from private firms. All of it.
- This is a good response. People who live in high-income societies with energy abundance have no idea what they keep asking lower-income countries to give up.“Let me stop you right there…” Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President @presidentaligy; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate. Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!
00:00 - Every now and then I am reminded of Kenya's one laptop per child project, one of the biggest scams in the history of the country's education sector.
- Corruption is obviously bad, but is also terribly overrated as a cause of poverty and underdevelopmentwhat opinion will you defend like this?
- Given the population density and economic potential of the Nam Lolwe Basin, this should be a major highway and economic corridor.
- It’s not ideal, @SingoeiAKorir, that Kenya is cementing its reputation as the sort of place where foreign agents kidnap people at will — from South Sudan, to Türkiye, to Uganda.Dr. Kizza Besigye brought to the Court Martial in Makindye, where he is set to be arraigned. His wife, Winnie Byanyima, says he was kidnapped in neighbouring Kenya and forcefully returned to Uganda. 📸 @SwaibuIbrahim
00:00 - I keep saying this. Public education in KE wasn’t perfect. But it was the closest we got to a successful national project. Communities were proud of their schools. Society could make credible contracts with the next generation through it. All that mostly gone.
- My only hot take about this year’s Economics Nobel is that everyone talks about big game about institutions yet the field of international development remains inherently anti-institutionalist, with most interventions designed to circumvent and/or undermine institutions.
- That an entire region just sits back and lets this happen again and again will forever be a stain on the record of all current African leaders.Over 150 people are feared dead in a massacre in central Sudan, with blame directed at the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group. Local activists in Gezira state report that soldiers surrounded the village of Wad al-Nourah on Wednesday before launching two attacks. (1/1)
