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What @kipmurkomen said Vs What the Constitution says...and @KenyaGovernors are endorsing the shit😨😨😨. Kweli Kenya kuna wajinga
@kipmurkomen @KenyaGovernors What @kipmurkomen said Vs What the Constitution says...and @KenyaGovernors are endorsing the shit😨😨😨. Kweli Kenya kuna wajinga
After 2wks kukula tu mandazi & doing nothing. Senate Committee of 12 only managed to share additional 53B frm @StateHouseKenya & are now slaying all over eti #TeamKenya, #WinWinInawezekana. Kenyans once again fell for the con.
Kenyans are truly gullible. #WajingaNyinyi 😨😨😨
Kenyans are truly gullible. #WajingaNyinyi 😨😨😨
Another lesson in this thread.
Boarding schools were started by British protestant missionaries.
The story of parental responsibility came from American evangelical missionaries.
To say that parents take kids to boarding schools to avoid responsibility is historical confusion.
Boarding schools were started by British protestant missionaries.
The story of parental responsibility came from American evangelical missionaries.
To say that parents take kids to boarding schools to avoid responsibility is historical confusion.
I explained here that British missionaries started boarding schools to create an African elite by drawing them away from their communities.
The boarding schools persisted after 1963 because African elites wanted to maintain that system of privilege.
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The boarding schools persisted after 1963 because African elites wanted to maintain that system of privilege.
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So when Kenyan parents take kids to boarding school, it's because they think, as the BRITISH missionaries did, that being at home interferes with learning.
Also, space and resources for local facilities like schools, libraries and recreation spaces for kids have been grabbed.
Also, space and resources for local facilities like schools, libraries and recreation spaces for kids have been grabbed.
Yani, Wakenya. Hear me well.
When you hear the rich talking about useless subjects and "practical skills," they are expressing madharao for YOU. Do you think Margaret of Beyond Zero is taking her kids to a TVET? You think that stupidity is for others and not you? #WajingaNyinyi
When you hear the rich talking about useless subjects and "practical skills," they are expressing madharao for YOU. Do you think Margaret of Beyond Zero is taking her kids to a TVET? You think that stupidity is for others and not you? #WajingaNyinyi
When KEPSA complains about practical skills, don't take them literally and believe it's a work problem. It's a CLASS problem. They are trying to secure their space as #UpperDeckPeopleKE. They want gava to make rising social levels as difficult as possible. #WajingaNyinyi
The British never intended to teach humanities and the classics (hizo Latin na Greek ambayo mnadharao) to Africans. Or even to the British working class itself! Because those were the subjects for empire, for training the civil servants who would colonize you.
A story is told of a person who stops by a woman's house to ask for food. The woman refuses. So the man pulls out a stone and says all he wants is water to boil the stone in. She agrees. Then he tastes the water, tells her that maybe if she added some salt it would taste better.
She adds. Then he tastes again and says maybe some onions might work. She adds. Then some spices, some meat, and she keeps adding, until finally there's a nice bowl of stew cooked with a single, magical stone.
I've adapted this story from Swedish anthropologist Alf Hornborg, who explains how technology mesmerizes us and cheats us that we have made stone stew, when in fact, we have used our own fuel and ingredients to make the stew.
#WajingaNyinyi needs a Wikipedia page:
#WajingaNyinyi syndrome is a condition in which citizens develop a psychological alliance with their elected political leaders after a traumatic reign.
Emotional bonds may be formed, between citizens and the leaders, during periods of sustained distress that are generally considered irrational in light of the suffering or oppression endured by the victims.
Over the last few days, I've been having a fun time reading about the intrigues of colonial Kenya. Some of the most entertaining readings for me are about how European settlers were frustrated with government.
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So the settlers came in 1902, some of them Boers who didn't like how the war with the English in South Africa turned out. Once they landed, they complained about land taxes, delay in obtaining titles deeds, and laws against hunting and killing as much wildlife as they wanted.
The settlers were racist rogues, carrying out public lynchings or our people.
They also complained that they weren't getting enough Africans to work on their land, and that the government was doing nothing to force our people to work.
They also complained that they weren't getting enough Africans to work on their land, and that the government was doing nothing to force our people to work.
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Re: King Kaka and the DCI.
People underestimate how state machinery is used by the government to silence people.
A few years ago after a few ominous phone calls, we pulled down articles we had published which were on Corruption and governance
Re: King Kaka and the DCI.
People underestimate how state machinery is used by the government to silence people.
A few years ago after a few ominous phone calls, we pulled down articles we had published which were on Corruption and governance
We were working on pieces on corruption using publicly available information and what we were trying to do was to tie the dots and show the relationship between corruption scandals and certain individuals going way up including information we had gotten on company ownership
We published two articles and within hours the calls came in to each one of us individually.
These are not articles that necessarily stated anything new per se and they hadn't gained significant traction online. They had under 200 views.
But the calls started
These are not articles that necessarily stated anything new per se and they hadn't gained significant traction online. They had under 200 views.
But the calls started
