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@Owaahh
Aug 7, 2018 • 5 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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The only aerial photo of the August 7th 1998 blast taken in real time by a construction worker at Times Towers.

#Aug7at20
#iSurvived98
August 7th was the end of a normal week in KE. Bankers' strike (hence reduced casualties at Coop), teachers' strike, petty politics...a time like now, just an hour to the blast, this is the headline you would have been reading.
#Aug7at20
#iSurvived98
#Kenyanhistory
The @USEmbassyKenya as it stood before August 7th 1998. The new one in Gigiri was opened in 2003, and the bomb blast site turned into what is today @MemorialParkKe, to commemorate the pain, suffering and bravery of that dark day 20 years ago.

#Aug7at20
#KenyanHistory
@USEmbassyKenya @MemorialParkKe The meeting that never ended. Prudence Bushnell and Kamotho were at the latter's office at Cooperative House when the blast happened. Kamotho was carried down 16 flight of stairs...Prudence was knocked unconscious, then carried to a nearby hotel.
#Aug7at20
#KenyanHistory
Prudence Bushnell's itinerary on Aug 7, 1998. When the bomb went off during her meeting with Kamotho, she thought the Coop House was the target, only to be carried downstairs and realize it had been her Embassy right across.
#Aug7at20
@USEmbassyKenya
@memorialkenya

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Now this thread is for the people who, as part of their human experience, went to national schools and groups of schools. First, you are not brighter than us. You are not our betters. We can call out your abuse or any abuse by anyone you identify with.
I am not attacking you when I say this. But over and over again when I make a point about how your schools have harmed the Kenyan experience, the same conversation happens. I am not attacking your experiences, or your humanity.
That I spent more mental juice trying to explain this to old boys of Starehe (still waiting for that invite to your Whatsapp groups) bothers me. Are we our high schools? Are we going to live as adults by the institutions we visited (it was a visit, just a long one).
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If you feel the need to talk to me, to be angry with me, or just to insult to me, my email address is at the end or this tweet. I will post screenshots of your email here, without your name or address. Let's talk. Let's unpack this feeling. This foreboding. >>

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Sep 21, 2018
On this day, five years ago, Westgate was just waking up the way malls do. What begun just a few hours from now could have been prevented, could have been stopped before it escalated, could have been solved fast, could have been investigated so we never go through it again...
The clusterfuckery that's the other side of this social contract we call Kenya failed in every instance. It ignored warnings, reacted like a drunk sloth, brought tanks to a gun fight, frustrated international investigators, and blew up a pile of explosive mattresses.
Yes, a few men and women were heroes that day. But they didn't have to die or almost die. No mother deserves to have to tell her child to lie on the floor and stay quiet just minutes after the child was having the time of her life buying shoes.
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Also, freedom of expression? That one that has been under threat for a while, there's a new wave coming with the Copyright Amendment Bill (2017), now in heading to its 3rd Reading.

Everything on this page is a real threat to the stories you want to read.
Let me tell you a story.
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If it wasn't a phone picking day (don't even ask), the site would've been suspended immediately. The point of the takedown (which was about copyright infringement on some images, I'll attach the letter here in a bit), was to bring down the site, and kill access to the story.
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Sep 20, 2018
Are we angry yet?

Are we angry enough yet?

What will finally break us? Because not only can the center not hold, it has been mortgaged for generations.
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Or as an anarchist. Because this can't be how this story ends.
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