Kenya Ni Mimi

🇰🇪 Madaraka. Sixty-three years later, we're still defining the word.

In 1963, "self-rule" meant lowering one flag and raising another.

In 2024, it meant a generation standing outside Parliament with placards, hashtags and the names of friends who never came home.

In 2026, it means reading the Finance Bill clause by clause on the web. Asking why fuel costs more than dignity. Refusing to forget the disappeared. Refusing to be governed without consent.

Today is a reminder that madaraka isn't complete until it reaches every corner, every household, every young Kenyan still waiting for the republic to keep its word.

So yes, sherehe iko. Happy Madaraka Day. But kazi? Kazi bado iko sana.

Because madaraka was never a gift from the State. It was and still is taken, defended and re-taken by the people. By us. By you.

Kenya ni Mimi. Kenya ni Wewe. Kenya ni Sisi Sote

We didn’t walk into Villa Rosa Kempinski to be impressed. We walked in because 55% of Kenya’s revenue goes to creditors, public debt has tripled in a decade and the people repaying it, mostly under 35, never approved it.

Yesterday, convened a closed-door dialogue between Kenyan youth and the Kenya team. We didn’t come to listen quietly. We came with questions.

Why does the Debt Sustainability Analysis exclude KSh 630 billion in pending bills? What youth consultation informed the USD 1.2B Kenya DPO approved weeks before the Finance Bill protests? Will future DPOs address unchecked Article 223 reallocations? What does conditionality achieve when Kenya’s problem is political will, not missing laws? And if 85% of working young Kenyans are in informal work, is NYOTA a structural solution or a coping mechanism?

This is what serious civic engagement looks like, young citizens showing up with the receipts, the documents and the questions our representatives should be asking.

NDI trained us to monitor public debt. Yesterday, we put that training to work.

Kenya Ni Mimi and we’re done being briefed without being consulted.

A period should never cost a girl her education. Yet across Kenya, too many still miss school, sit out of life and carry shame for something as natural as breathing.
Menstrual dignity is not a privilege. It's a right.

This Menstrual Hygiene Day, we're choosing to break the silence to talk openly about disorders, care, myths and facts and to build communities where no girl is held back because she menstruates. Because dignity is something we owe each other, together.

This is what a looks like and we're building it, one conversation, one girl, one community at a time.

Proud to join and partners this 30th May at Oloolua Secondary School. Let's keep a girl in school.

Sometimes survival fatigue does not look dramatic.

It looks like replying “niko sawa” when you are emotionally exhausted. It also looks like functioning, showing up, working and creating while quietly running on empty.

In a season where many young Kenyans are carrying pressure, uncertainty, burnout and the constant need to keep pushing, we want to ask honestly:

How are you really doing? Do you know that you are experiencing survival fatigue?

Share your thoughts below. Someone else may feel less alone because of your honesty. 🤍

As we celebrate Eid Al Adha, Kenya Ni Mimi sends warm wishes to all Muslim communities in Kenya and across the world.

This sacred season reminds us of the values of sacrifice, compassion, faith, generosity and community, values that remain deeply important as we continue building a more just, united and caring society.

May this Eid bring peace to every home, strength to every family and hope to every young person working toward a better future.

At Kenya Ni Mimi, we believe community care, solidarity and shared humanity are central to nation-building. As families and communities gather in celebration, may we also continue showing up for one another with kindness, dignity and collective responsibility.

Eid Mubarak from all of us at Kenya Ni Mimi. 🤍

Africa is not rising. Africa has always been powerful.

This Africa Day 2026, Kenya Ni Mimi joins the continent in celebrating 63 years since the founding of the Organisation of African Unity, now the African Union under the theme: 63 Years of Unity, Integration and Development - Let’s Celebrate Together.

But celebration alone is not enough.

For Africa’s young people, this day is also a reminder that true liberation is unfinished work. Political independence without economic justice, digital sovereignty, quality education, climate justice and youth inclusion is incomplete freedom.

Across the continent, young Africans are redefining leadership, innovation, culture, technology and civic power. We are building movements, protecting democracy, shaping digital futures and refusing systems that profit from inequality and exclusion.

At Kenya Ni Mimi, we believe Pan-Africanism must move beyond symbolism into action, youth-led governance, African solutions, regional solidarity and systems that work for African people first.

Africa’s future will not be outsourced. It will be built by informed, courageous and organized young Africans.

Happy Africa Day.
Kenya Ni Mimi. Africa Ni Sisi.

They sat with colors in their hands and talked about the things that tried to break them.

Not in a clinic. Not in a courtroom. Not across a desk while someone documented their pain.

In a circle. In community. With color.

On 25th April 2026, 150 girls and young women walked into Dandora Social Hall carrying stories they had never spoken aloud. Together, we created a space where silence no longer had to survive.

Girlie Camp x Colorful Conversations. Reflect. Recalibrate. Realign.

Dandora continues to face alarmingly high levels of sexual and gender-based violence against girls and women. And too often, the systems meant to protect survivors fail them.

So we build spaces that do.

This year, our girls:
🔴 Named their experiences
🔴 Learned what real consent means
🔴 Spoke with psychologists who met them with compassion
🔴 Received legal knowledge and practical support
🔴 Left with dignity packs and hope

And yes, we cut cake too. Because four years of consistently showing up for girls deserves celebration.

From Jericho → Ziwani → Mathare → Dandora, this movement keeps growing because the need still exists.

To every girl who attended: you are seen, heard and deeply valued.

Throwback to Mawazo Yetu Reading Circle 1

On 18th April, 40 young Kenyans gathered at Maktaba Kuu Upper Hill for a full-day reading circle anchored on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow not simply as literature, but as a lens for understanding Kenya’s current civic moment.

Before the discussions began, participants were asked a baseline question:
What does civic action mean to you?

Most answers centred community, voice, and personal responsibility:
Helping people. Speaking up. Refusing to be a bystander.

Almost nobody connected civic action to legal literacy, security laws or the risks attached to public participation.

That gap between civic motivation and civic literacy shaped the day.

The programme brought together:
- A securitization research explainer drawing on research by ARTICLE 19, Haki Africa, CHRIPS and KICTANET
- An original artivism performance by the Social Justice Centers Working Group
- A Security Playbook Kahoot focused on civic and legal awareness
- Guided discussions on protest, state power, public space and what it means to persist

Even weeks later, the conversations continue to stay with us.

The novel ends without neat resolution. The people do not disappear.

Neither do we.

No girl should miss school because of her period. Full stop.

On 30th May, we're heading to Oloolua Secondary School with and partners for Menstrual Health Day, 1,000 pads, real conversations on disorders, care, and confidence and zero shame in the room.

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Every pad keeps a girl in class. Let's make it happen.

Welcoming Ruby Conf Africa as a community partner for our Al Build Day