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Aug 18, 2019 14 tweets 6 min read Read on X
Every sector in Kenya, from education, employment to business, runs on one fundamental law which we inherited from Anglo-Saxons.

We must have it ALL.

And having it all is proved by others having NOTHING. Even if someone has less than us, we must get it so that we have it all.
Having it all is a psychosis which makes the UK and the US be in constant war with everybody and the planet. And it is a white supremacist psychosis. Whites would rather die in the streets than have universal healthcare from which non-whites would benefit.
And because having it all is a disease, a contradiction of humanity, white supremacy needs rituals of violence to affirm this psychosis. Racism and lynchings of both people and animals, and destruction of the planet, become necessary to feed this psychosis. @ErrantNatives
@ErrantNatives This is how to understand the insatiable greed of the Kenyattas. They are stealing, distorting every sector (health, education, milk) to suit their businesses, imprisoning us with debt, prison enterprises and #hudumanamba, to ensure that they have it all and Kenyans have nothing.
@ErrantNatives To secure this psychosis, the Kenyattas bind the Kikuyu to rituals of violence. Oathing, constant brainwashing, despair and suicide, and blaming it on anything else but the economy. Kikuyus are encouraged to engage in self-lynching to protect a fake supremacy #uthamakistan
@ErrantNatives And ALL Kenyan politicians envy this evil, that is why they are always handshaking and doing any form of negotiating with the Kenyattas for a slice of this evil.
@ErrantNatives The way to fight this evil is simple. UBUNTU. We must train ourselves to care for the next person as we would care for ourselves. We must always ask ourselves: if I get this, what would it mean for others and the planet? If we feel insecure, let us speak what makes us insecure.
@ErrantNatives Confession of our insecurity would make us collaborate and find public solutions for the problems we contront. Keeping our insecurity silent makes us spend our energy planning how to steal from the next person.

And stealing is not only money. We also steal ideas and energy.
@ErrantNatives In the world of ideas, there is stealing. Creatives and intellectuals find themselves in meetings, and "hubs" where their energy, creativity and ideas are sapped by bureacrats, politicians and foreign investors, and the ideas promote the personal fortures of the thieves.
@ErrantNatives That means that in creative spaces, some people pretend to contribute but are plotting on how to approach a donor or politician to personally profit from that idea.

That's why our youth find themselves using a lot of energy coming up with ideas and having nothing to show for it.
@ErrantNatives If we had UBUNTU, nobody would be plotting to steal the work of the collective for their personal gain, because if they were caught, they would be ostracized from the community. UBUNTU would make us happy to share our work to benefit everybody, not just ourselves personally.
@ErrantNatives At #CBCConference2019, Dr @rakeshrajani justified such idea theft by telling Magoha to use the ideas of critics to improve the CBC. That is essentially encouraging politicians to steal our ideas for political expediency and while society and the children of Kenya do not benefit.
@ErrantNatives @rakeshrajani UBUNTU can help us value everybody's benefit as a goal to achieve. UBUNTU can cure our souls from this obsession with being ahead of everybody else. If we want to go fast, we go alone, but if we want to go far, we go together. UBUNTU is working together.
@ErrantNatives @rakeshrajani And don't be surprised to hear UBUNTU in the president's speeches in the weeks to follow. He has theives for speechwriters, who are very good at twisting our words for social justice to make him sound like he cares for Kenyans.

Watch that space.

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Like I said yesterday, I have outgrown caring what government does and what bills it writes. GoK is a parasite. Nothing it does is meant to help Kenyans. Everything is for containing Kenyans. The Creative Economy support bill is no different.
First thing to understand: GoK operates on "doctrine of discovery." You know the way wazungu told us they were the first to see Lake Victoria? That's how GoK operates, even with the arts. It fights the arts, then Kenyans struggle with the arts anyway, then GoK declares
it's establishing an infrastructure for the industry. But the industry was already there, despite being fought by GoK.

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It's important to talk about corruption and the extent of looting in Kenya. But for me, my interest is also this: what does the looting reveal about the mind, character and soul of Kenyans? What does it say about the moral, intellectual and spiritual infrastructure of Kenya? 🧵
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Why we should go back to 8.4.4. 🧵

To understand my argument you have to understand this premise which I argued from 2017, even before CBC was implemented.

EXAM OBSESSION IS AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM, NOT A CURRICULUM ONE.

If you don't (want to) get that, don't follow the thread.
I made this argument so many times, in so many stations, and on #MaishaKazini. The refusal to accept this point made me despair that Kenyans would demand change. 7 years later, the Gen Zprotest has finally proved me right. The problem is our political economy, not the curriculum.
For more on this, check my interviews with Spice FM and the Lynn Ngugi show.

Now, one of the stupidities
CBC brought was an extra layer of schools called JSS. Instead of primary, high and uni, now we had primary, JSS, high school and uni.
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Predators are more noble because they have their own system and simply use the prey for food. When they're not hungry, they leave the potential prey alone. Parasites are different. Parasites create nothing, and have no system independent of the host.
Worse, parasites need to make themselves invisible, and if they can't, they appear friendly.

The Kenyan state monopolizes the mainstream media. Kenyans created for themselves an alternative media to speak. Now the state is invading those alternatives.
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The first thinks that the Kenya colonial state can be managed better if we hire the right people on merit, and if we follow "the rule of law."
This ideology is largely supported by people in institutions: politicians, journalists and the church, although they differ on the moral angle about whether to engage with the establishment or not.

This ideology never discussed inequality, education or ideas. Just governance.
The 2nd group, to which I hope I belong, sees the colonial state as incapable of reform, and putting in nice people and following the constitution will take us back to the circumstances we are now in. We need an overhaul not just in morality, but also in our mindset. #RutoMustGo
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When Samora Machel was assassinated, Thomas Sankara said: who killed Machel? To know who killed Machel, you have to look at those whose interests are served by his death.

That's how I see the raid on Bunge. Whose interests were served most by that raid? #rejectfinancebill2024
I get my answer from 3 things:
1. Zakayo's tasteless speech that said nothing about #rejectfinancebill2024, and justified the use of the military
2. The subsequent massacres in Githurai
3. The similarity with what happened in Sri Lanka in 2022, and a reference to it
by a member of a top member of Zakayo's government, who told me in July 2022 that nothing else matters except preventing a Sri Lanka

What are the chances that that would happen 2 years later? And then we'd be told about security and defence of Katiba?
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