Thread by @wmnjoya

Title of article on BBC:
Sudan after Bashir: 'The revolution is on the curriculum.' Picture of a woman with a victory salute.

Title of the same BBC article In @dailynation: "Anti-Bashir protests added to curriculum." Picture replaced with one of a dancer in costume, from AFP.

Notice the @dailynation line on top:

"Revolution: Children play protestors carrying flowers being gunned down."

Wakenya: media is not the friend of the Kenyan people. They are actively taking sides against us and our desire for change.

This is how @dailynation has processed the Sudan revolution

1. They have personalized the revolution by making it about Bashir. Now you can see how we cant seem to get away from personality-driven politics. It's thanks to the media.

2. @dailynation has de-politicized the revolution and made it cultural. So they replaced a political photo with a cultural one. Instead of woman in a crowd making political sign, they give us a cultural costume.

That is how politics in Kenya is ethnicized and culturalized.

3. With the byline, @dailynation has reduced system change to liberal values. So the problem wasn't exploitation and a suffocating system; it was that Bashir was "mean" and shot children holding flowers.

Wakenya, media is not on our side. They are dumbing us down.

And notice the phrase "children play." In other words, the revolution was never serious, it doesn't have long lasting social effects. It has now become child's play. Revolution is just something we simulate, act and pretend. It doesn't happen in reality.

I feel insulted.

We must stop saying that Kenyan citizens are solely responsible for personality driven, ethnicized politics. The media must be held to account for consistently feeding us with information in a way that prevents us from reading politics differently.

Back to the pictures.
Notice the people in the background. In the BBC one, people are actively protesting.

In the AFP picture used by @dailynation, there are other dancers, but the majority of people are sitting and watching. The message: we must do likewise.

And the word in the title "added," aka the state curriculum goes on, but with an addition. The one who "adds" is not stated, but for Kenyans, we're led to assume it's like KICD big brother descending on the curriculum. Yet from the article, it's the teachers who added it.

Recall that during the CBC debate, I said that we need curriculum where GoK can give guidelines, and teachers are.empowere to choose content, textbooks and teaching methods.

CBC was not about curriculum but about asserting power from
Nairobi. That's what @dailynation affirms.