Thread by @wmnjoya

You cannot get freedom from a deal that was negotiated by people's whose kids don't attend public schools, or who dont get treated in public hospitals.

We will remind Kenyans of this after the euphoria of this latest spectacle from politicians dies down.

Before 2022, there'll be another #BBIReport. Politicians need to stay in the limelight, but not on issues, because issues would make them irrelevant. They hold our attention by implied threats of tribal war, so that we celebrate every time they shake hands. BBI is spectacle.

So #BBIReport will dominate headlines for a few weeks, maybe months, as politicians loot the country and distract us from the sinking debt and the broke government. And we won't realize, because we've been trained by our education system to forget. Our public memory is very short

And just as people celebrate, Magoha has made more restrictions to university education that oblige universities to align themselves to the market, seek permission to launch anything, and allow universities to be set up by cabinet on the president's agenda #BBIReport

So as people dance, their minds are being clobbered not just by #BBIReport spectacle, but also by @EduMinKenya, hot on the heals of a dumbed down #CBC that reduces kids to workers and a TVET policy meant to export youth abroad.

Ignorance is truly bliss.

@EduMinKenya Luckily for some of us, we are patient. We read far behind, we look far ahead. We walk in the footsteps of Syokimau. History will absolve us. #BBIReport

@EduMinKenya "Truth, memory and critical thinking in a context in which the pursuit of state power has tended to crowd out several other priority questions in the arena of public debate. Kenya became bereft of a public infrastructure on which to hang any intellectual values....

@EduMinKenya "Through paranoid acts of ‘knowledge management,' the Kenyan state has shaped history, the archives and public memory for its own ends...Added to this the scarcity of credible platforms for public intellectual deliberation ... "

@EduMinKenya ...with radio, TV and newspapers often opting for outright sensationalism. The challenge for intellectuals will be to look beyond any new rhetoric of unity and peace to explore national fault lines, the better to determine why ‘Kenya’ remains an elusive fiction."

Dan Ojwang