Thread by @wmnjoya

To understand the corruption and theft of Kenya's ruling elite, we must understand the virus of European neurosis and insecurity, and that it has infected our ruling elite since colonial times. We cannot end corruption unless we address this Euro-psychosis #wasiwasizawazungu

The virus of Euro-psychosis that causes corruption has these characteristics:
1. Extreme insecurity - an instinct to grab and accumulate because you don't know about tomorrow
2. Extreme individualism: you can't collaborate with your neighbor to solve anything #wasiwasizawazungu

3. Extreme laziness - you don't want to work. Notice that aspiring and current politicians can't carry out a single task

4. Extreme alienation - you don't want to work, but still want to profit from the work of others, so you keep scheming to distract people #wasiwasizawazungu

This Euro-psychosis explains why many times, we start collaborating on ideas or work, then suddenly, people become unavailable, or dishonest. Later you find they negotiated with someone else to sell the work, but they keep pretending that they are working #wasiwasizawazungu

Kenyan culture sees no instrinsic dignity in work. So we are always encouraging people to work, but at the same time distracting them so that we can steal the fruit of that work. That's what the so-called hubs are about. Stealing the creativity of our youth #wasiwasizawazungu

The Kenyattas are particularly infected with this disease. Since Muigai became president, his family has come up with all sorts of schemes to get rich from the labor of Kenyans while he distracts us with mischevious laws and stories of Kikuyu exceptionalism #wasiwasizawazungu

But what skill, exactly, does Muigai or his family have? Can they milk cows? Can they do creative writing? Can they farm? They have no skills at all, yet they are rich. And now that culture of getting rich off others' work has permeated the whole Kenyan society #wasiwasizawazungu

The Kenyattas are no different from English aristocracy. We can't tell you what work they do daily, or what value they provide, except to get babies, look nice for the camera and globe trot talking about nothing. Yet they are rich #wasiwasizawazungu
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Another bad habit that came from #wasiwasizawazungu is the obsession with land ownership. Even in England, the bulk of the population is squeezed onto land while the bulk of the land is owned by elites who don't work. theguardian.com/money/2019/apr…

This culture of profiting from the work of the poor produces financialization, where people make money from money, not from work. Universities the train lawyers, accountants and PR managers to hide, manage and sanitize the stealing #wasiwasizawazungu

Now Kenya is also aiming to become the finance capital, the London, of East Africa. Where wealth collects and the rich gamble and play risky games with it, while they force Kenyans to work using #hudumanamba as a surveillance tool. #wasiwasizawazungu businessdailyafrica.com/markets/market…

And of course, the role of the church is to distract people from economic injustice by laundering the money to pacify the church members #wasiwasizawazungu

In a nutshell, our economy is built on the principle of theft, because we have been infected with the medieval, Anglo-Saxon psycho-neurosis of scarcity, hatred for the next person, and desire to reap where we do not sow by enslaving the majority. #wasiwasizawazungu

Every legal maneuvre of the Kenyattas, CBC, #milkbill, #hudumanamba is to ensure that Kenyans cannot escape from enriching the Kenyatta coffers in one way or the other. Either they take your labor or you go to prison and work for free #wasiwasizawazungu

https://twitter.com/Jude_Koech/status/1108802615767433216

To uproot corruption, we must

1. Value work and praise people for good work

2. despise the rich who don't have a single skill to their name

3. End career managerialism and business degrees for people with no skills or work experience in an actual field
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4. Value collaboration, despite government's war against social gatherings and public spaces

5. Declare access to the fruit of one's labor a human right. We must have the right to negotiate what happens to our work and the profits, not just to our salaries #wasiwasiwawazungu