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At the height of Nyayoism, KANU hawk Kamotho said that pictures of Moi should be hung in our bedrooms. That's how reactionary politics had invaded our intimate lives.
My generation was sexually repressed, which is linked to the way we are also politically and socially stunted.
My generation was sexually repressed, which is linked to the way we are also politically and socially stunted.
This sexual repression came in the promotion of the purity movement among educated, Christian youths of the 80s and 90s. The sexual purity movement targetted educated Kenyans (hence its prevalence in schools) and was an overt political project.
The purity movement was vicious and traumatizing. It made youths sit on their sexual lives. A certain book "I kissed dating goodbye" taught against any form of intimacy before marriage. It was circulated and used in Kenyan church circles.
Kenya is so toxic because we tell Eurocentric stories about ourselves. In tourism, in education, everyone from civil servants to parents to lovers repeats degrading stories about ourselves. And we even fact check and provide data to support our abuse.
For example, we repeat the story of job market yet it was a colonial settler one. We assume that teaching home science in schools is about skill and yet it's about teaching the European home lifestyle. We talk about "quality" when it was a neoliberal destruction of our education.
We accept manufacturing and industrial revolution as the gospel truth, not realizing that AFRICAN raw materials, produced through our oppression, were used in British industry. So if you want an Industrial revolution, exactly whom do you want to be exploited, if it's not you?
Kikuyu people are burying their historical trauma with alcohol, suicide, domestic violence and trooping to the polls for Muigai, but the elites keep cheating them that those problems come from neglect of the boy child.
Then clueless Kenyan men from other communities join them.
Then clueless Kenyan men from other communities join them.
The Kenyattas have retraumatized the Kikuyu since 1963. At independence, Jomo told them to forget the Mau Mau because they now had "arrived," and that celebrating or extending the demands for land would cause turmoil in Kenya. So they covered the pain of the emergency.
Then in 1969, Kikuyus were forced to oath to protect Jomo. Kikuyus my age will tell you that parents completely refused to talk about that oath. It's only when Rev. Gatu's book was published that families reluctantly revealed the secret. Imagine that pain. standardmedia.co.ke/article/200022…
What effort is society putting in place for the welfare of the #BoyChild?
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I love, appreciate and support the drive for the welfare of the #GirlChild.
But how on earth can the welfare of the #GirlChild be guaranteed when the #BoyChild, in whose 'world' she'll exist is not well equipped to be a worthy caretaker?
But how on earth can the welfare of the #GirlChild be guaranteed when the #BoyChild, in whose 'world' she'll exist is not well equipped to be a worthy caretaker?
Our culture, our religions - be it Christianity, Islam or ATR all places the men as head and women, subordinates.
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