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#Hustlernation is built on trauma which Kenyans don't want to deal with.
And it's really interesting that when Kenyans talk about the hustle, they equate it not to the work they do, but to a rich man.

The kind of trauma that makes you suppress your own story and focus on someone else's is the stuff of fiction. #hustlernation
Kenyans are so exploited. And every time we try to talk about it, we're told the problem is "policy," or that we're not following the rules.

The people who should be helping us are unions. But what is @AtwoliDza doing? Promoting the agenda of exploiters. #hustlernation
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Good afternoon class!

Here is a thread of a post I did on October 12 2017

The colonialists always appointed Africans with flawed character to positions that had influence.

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#TekelezaKatiba Movement

#NoToShamElections!
People who had skeletons in the closet or people ready to betray their communities and could even kill their own mothers. Chiefs, DOs, Legislative Council members, presidents and PMs who took over at "independence".

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#TekelezaKatiba
In Uthamakistan we call these people "Ngaati (home guards) or "kamatimu ("they or spears" colonial police)". In the rest of Kenya they're known as collaborators or sellouts.

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#TekelezaKatiba Movement

#NoToShamElections!
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These Unprecedented Times Call for Business Unusual!

These are unprecedented times. Never in our recent history, have we not had an opposition party or group to check the excesses of the Executive. @KLM_VUMA

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Even during the dark days of the single-party rule of the Moi dictatorship, voices of dissent still existed, despite the constant danger of imprisonment, torture and assassination.

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This is the spirit that led us to fight to end the single-party rule. It is the spirit that led us to fight for constitutional reforms and the spirit that guided our fight for electoral justice in 2007, 2013 and 2017 at huge costs.

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This video was shot in 2009 shortly after the #GoK forcefully evicted Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the 2007/2008 Post Election Violence (PEV) from the main camps and hid them in satellite camps away from local and international media glare.
It was produced by journalists Gatũ wa Mbaria and John Njerũ with the aim of letting Kenyans know the plight of the desperate people and possibly help them.

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It inspired a major initiative that brought together famous musicians, comedians and marathoners to try and help. But once again, the govt infiltrated and destroyed the initiative.

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The Senate is quarrelling over some 314 billion while Counties are dying and ethnic sycophants are cheering! This country is crap!

#UshenziKE!

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In the last financial year, Kenya paid Kshs 437b as interest on public debt.

Of this amount KShs 315b was spent on domestic debt service while Kshs 122b was spent on foreign debt service.

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This despite 3.2T of public debt being domestic while 3.5T is foreign.

So 25% of our tax collection goes towards debt service.

We pay more money to service public debt than we give to counties for development.

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"Ordinary Citizens of a great nation will forever be treated better than successful Citizens of a failed country." - Fela Durotoye

Together we can make Kenya a successful national.

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"Ordinary Citizens of a great nation will forever be treated better than successful Citizens of a failed country." - Fela Durotoye

Together we can make Kenya a successful national.

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"Ordinary Citizens of a great nation will forever be treated better than successful Citizens of a failed country." - Fela Durotoye

Together we can make Kenya a successful national.

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Mali Coup, a thread:

African leaders drafted for themselves a Constitution that bans coups or if you wish to call it military take-over of power. They did it so that they stay in power for as long as they want, even against the wishes of the people.

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African leaders consider the States they rule as their personal property. They employ their incompetent relatives and practice rampant theft/corruption with impunity. They subject ordinary people to untold suffering resulting in abject poverty.

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They torture those they consider opponents and dissenting voices for speaking against injustices, mistreatment and unleash atrocities of all forms.

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#UshenziKE!

There is nothing to show for Kenya’s public debt in the past seven years. The Central Bank of Kenya put the indebtedness — Sh3.496 trillion external debt and Ksh3.153 trillion in domestic borrowing — at Sh6.649 trillion as at May.

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The Covid-19 global pandemic compelled the government to borrow more.

The high public debt has led to a decline in employment opportunities, inability to provide quality services...

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...institutionalised harsh business environment through exorbitant taxes to generate enough revenue to repay debts and more so, deprived counties of resources.

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The unfortunate events in @Senate_KE are a very dangerous early warning signal of the open role of security forces in determining the political and public affairs trajectory in #Kenya.

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The threats and intimidation to @Senate_KE due to revenue sharing basis has a serious chilling effect. It is a direct assault on the Constitution and democracy. It signals dangerous days ahead for every Kenyan.

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This is no longer a Senate matter. This is coming in heels of the military takeover in Nairobi City County.

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Good afternoon class!

Watch, listen and learn how a leader and a statesman articulates his vision for his country. This is Lee Kuan Yew, the late Prime Minister of Singapore. He is the man whose vision and work built modern Singapore.

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Watch, listen and learn how a leader and a statesman articulates his vision for his country. This is Lee Kuan Yew, the late Prime Minister of Singapore. He is the man whose vision and work built modern Singapore.

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Watch, listen and learn how a leader and a statesman articulates his vision for his country. This is Lee Kuan Yew, the late Prime Minister of Singapore. He is the man whose vision and work built modern Singapore.

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That #Covid19Millionaires report is what @RookieKE calls mshangao reporting. I don't think we are helped by being told about the size and immorality of corruption. All we do is feel helpless, especially when the people in charge are saying the cartels are big but wont name them.
If theft is so deeply embedded in the Kenyan state, and international bodies like @WorldBank @EUinKenya are sending more money knowing it will be swindled anyway, but we Kenyans will pay back the money with interest, then we have to ask ourselves: "what is Kenya for?"
To call ourselves citizens is a contradiction. Kenyans are enslaved people. Our role is to provide labor and resources for international rackets between the corrupt US and UK governments and corporations and their Kenyan puppets.
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They always avoiding using the word "Socialism"😂

One reason, says Harvard Business School professor Hirotaka Takeuchi, was dedication to responding to the needs of employees and the community first, all with the moral purpose of serving the common good.

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Less important for these companies, he says, was pursuing layoffs and other cost-cutting measures in the face of a crippled economy.

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“Many Japanese companies are not that popular with Wall Street types because they are not as focused on gaining superior profitability and maximizing shareholder value,” he says. “They talk consistently instead about creating lasting changes in society.”

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@HassanOmarH has rediscovered his social justice roots? Powerful presentation! I agree with him @MwangiWaIria should focus on negotiating a better price for milk from #Kenyattans on behalf of Murang'a farmers rather that threatening the rest of Kenyans.

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Listen to this idiocy! Northern Kenya and other traditionally marginalized regions are being compensated for historical injustices in order to bring them to same level as rest of Kenya. Land is just one factor!

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If Central Kenyans want more money they should tell Kenyattans to stop stealing and invest their trillions of loot in productive ventures all over the region to spur economic growth. #UshenziKE!

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Good evening class!

Why are you agreeing to be distracted with this #RevenueFormula nonsense? Ati #LANDsizeVSpeople when the Kenyattans have all the productive land?

Discuss (40 Marks)

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Three suspected fraudsters, who have been described by the @NPSOfficial_KE as notorious, were on Monday charged with conspiracy to defraud contrary to section 317 of the penal code.

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Jeremiah Murimi Mwaura, 36, Victoria Muthoni Mutinga, 36, and Albert Oyugi Ayumbo, 34, are accused of conning members of the public of their monies claiming to be employees of a mobile service provider conducting promotion on their products.

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A while back I posted that so-called top schools have done disservice to Kenya by producing top thieves & anti-Wanjiku barons & cartels. This was deliberately designed to be so by the colonial system to produce self-perpetuating system protectors.

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Well, someone (not sure the author) produced a piece on Alliance High School and its contribution to our mess and enslavement through neocolonialism that I've just come across...

This will contribute to the midterm CAT (40 Marks)

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That Alliance High School produced some of the pioneer elites has never been in doubt. But how the ex-students later used the Alliance-Alumni connections to build a strong bond is a story that has barely been told.

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Good evening class!

Prof. @DavidNdii says... "At 16,000 km2, the amount of land classified as of high agricultural potential in Marsabit is one-third bigger than the five counties of the old Central Province (12,000 km2).

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This potential is underexploited, while that of Central is more or less exhausted. Where, then, should more agricultural development money go?"

#UshenziKE! (It's a no brainer!!!)

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Below are the Senators who stood with the elusive dream of a country and possibly a nation called Kenya. The other chose to vote for a return to the colonial outpost we are attempting to outgrow through Devolution.

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In this day and age this is sickening @IG_NPS. Whatever she may have done there is no justification for this kind of colonial @NPSOfficial_KE brutality in "independent" Kenya year 2020! #UshenziKE

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Mlango Kubwa MCA Hon Mutheu Musyimi seen being battered by rogue @NPSOfficial_KE at City Hall.

There is absolutely no justification for grown men to descend on a Kenyan, man or woman, this way @IG_NPS! These cops should be arrested and charged @IPOA_KE @NPSC_KE!

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Unyama wa @IG_NPS mboys! This is unacceptable @NPSOfficial_KE.

Cc @ODPP_KE @IPOA_KE @HakiKNCHR @thekhrc ImageImage
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The other white pathology narrative that has confused Kenyan elites is that annoying word called "privilege."

Here goes the thread.

That story of 'privilege" makes our every day life sound like we walk around with tickets which we use to open doors.
It's like I go to an office and there's a check list:

"White? No.
Male? No.
Upper class? No.
Educated in the Roman imperial system? Yes.

Here's your place."

So you find people saying stuff like "your male privilege," "your elite privilege," "your American privilege."
But that is not how race, tribe, class and gender work. They work from loyalties, not access. So, for example, white people are asked to be loyal to the imperial aristocracy by virtue of being the same skin color as the aristocrats.
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This is a beautiful article by Maina wa Kinyatti about the military and institutional organization of the Mau Mau. It give details.of the military strategies and the internal contradictions of the Mau Mau. #PoliticalEducationKE

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From the beginning, Jomo was committed to "peaceful" negotiation with the British. He tried to get an audience with settlers and the colonial government here, they refused to meet him. Most Kenyans had no time for that nonsense. Jomo knew it. #PoliticalEducationKE
In 1948, Jomo told an American journalist that he was scared that the "left-wing" arm of KAU were "dark and half-educated minds" who were prepared to use force.

In 1952, Jomo sent Oneko and Koinange to London for a last ditch negotiation with the British. #PoliticalEducationKE
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Good evening class!

Here is a #PoliticalEducationKE thread prepared by The Centre for Public Integrity Kenya (CPIK)

The Kenyatta family, conflict of interest and the political economy of State Capture in Kenya

This CAT will contribute 40% towards your end year exams.
As Economist Dr @DavidNdii, Uhuru's agemate has been telling us, the Kenyatta family empire has now gone beyond Kshs 5 trillion net worth. Trillion, not billion worth...

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With Uhuru at State House, this will continue to rise because of *the conflict of interest corrupt arrangement* where the whole republic is a kitega Mali ama kitega uchumi.

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Good afternoon Class!

#PoliticalEducationKE thread...

While Cuba is sending out doctors to boost other countries capacity to deal with the Covid situation, US, Britain and Europe are draining out other's health system...

Discuss (35 Marks)

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...by buying out their health workers and killing whatever small capacities these "third world" countries have developed...

... & we call them the "developed" nations.

We need to call them out for what they are!

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Apparently they are very short staffed. They are looking to maintain the recommended staff/patient ratio, so they are robbing medical staff from 3rd world countries!

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Good afternoon class!

Our topic today is "COMPREHENSION". I will read you a story and we will discuss it after... (30 Marks)

A #PoliticalEducationKE thread by Kipruto Kertiony

Once upon a time in Kenya, a child was born to Mr and Mrs Mwananchi, whom they named Wanjiku...
Wanjiku was delivered at the District hospital through what the doctors called 'caesarian section'. Mrs Mwananchi was discharged after two weeks.

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His friends were surprised that Mr Mwananchi, a very thrifty man, was very happy despite spending money on buying shawls and other clothing for the baby, and hiring a taxi to take them all of 30 kms to their family seat. But those were his only expenses.

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For the longest time, the British were frustrated by the Kamba. Like the Giriama, the Kamba didn't enter the cash economy. They used cattle as a medium of exchange for food, dowry and other transactions.

The colonialists came up with a plan. Destocking. #politicaleducationKE
The colonialist claimed that the Kamba had too many cattle. But more than that, in 1938, the colonial governor wrote an order commanding the Kamba to give up their cattle to a slaughter house in Athi River called Liebigs. And the Machakos DC was going to get a cut.
The order was brutal. In places like Kangundo, people were losing up to 90% of their stock. So the Kamba mobilized people to resist the order, and held a six-month sit-in to protest. The British pulled back the order because they were afraid that the struggle would turn violent.
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