Resurgence Diary

28/07/2026

There is a chair in Kenyas Western Highlands that tourists stop to photograph and locals walk past to buy plastic.

I bought the wooden one.

Out of curiosity, I went home and opened my CAD software, and set this chair up. What I found changed how I think about African design.

More on this soon.

📍 Kisii County, Western Kenya Highlands

27/07/2026

Steal this Chair Design😍

The Chair That Kisii Built for the World Legend has it that the original Mugirango Chair came to an old Mogaka in his dreamlike stupor, one Saturday evening, deep into a solitary pot , somewhere in…

15/07/2026

Some images say what words can't.
Ibrahim Traoré refused to hand over the gold. Refused the IMF. Refused to let a US general lecture him about his own country on the Senate floor.
That refusal belongs to all of us now.
The African Century Collection — six printable artworks imagining the Africa his generation is building.
🖼️ All six pieces, $5. Link in bio.
The future is first built in the imagination.

The African CenturyA Civic Altarpiece in Six PanelsA museum-quality collection of six original digital artworks imagining an African future built not on fantasy, but on architecture, craftsmanship, learning, community, and dignity.Inspired by the monumental compositions of Renaissance frescoes and r...

11/07/2026

He learns to call the handout a relationship. He learns to call his silence strategy. He learns to call his hunger patience, and his patience professionalism, and his professionalism whatever the s…

30/06/2026

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29/06/2026

A tooth. Sixty-one years. No accountability for the perpetrators. No full truth about the circumstances of his death. That blatantly half-hearted gesture tells you everything about the real power dynamics — the same dynamics that continue to undermine the global south to this day.

A tooth. Sixty-one years. No accountability for the perpetrators. No full truth about the circumstances of his death. That blatantly half-hearted gesture tells you everything about the real power d…

25/06/2026

For Kenya — a rainbow country loosely held together by the duct tape of the 1963 state, veiled in the 2010 constitutional ideal — a revolution has long been touted by visionaries. Sometimes far away, sometimes close, always cracking under the boot of the police state and big man excesses. And critically, the challengers have never had a coordinated plan of action.

Read the Full Musings below

A Country Held Together by Duct Tape In the world of nation-building, revolutions are major paradigm shifts in governance — featuring upended class relationships. They destabilize countries in the …