Thread by @BarazaLab

#itsarap starting off with @aleyakassam @Laura_Ekumbo and Ann Moraa of the LAM Sisterhood

The way ahead by Ciru Ngigi
'It's okay to mourn the death of Moi and its okay to feel guilty that you are mourning Moi'

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'Expect the national gaslighting' to sensitize Moi's name

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At the stream people who met Moi often had nice things to say about him

People who met him on the side of him with the full force of the law against you - remember an oppressive Moi thus tarnishing his initial self

Its okay to remember him how you know but don't lie
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"Feel it" ~ Ciru Ngigi

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"Moi changed everyone life in this country, whether negatively or postitvely - mostly negatively - he changed everyone's life" Zarina Patel

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"I joined the struggle in 1979 and life changed completely" Zarina Patel

"I lived in Mombasa and most of three struggle work was happening in Mombasa, I had to make regular visits to Nairobi" Zarina Patel on why she closed her practice to devote her time to the struggle

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"I made some large oil paintings showing resistance" Zarina Patel

"In 91 I was able to force Moi to give up his plans for jeevanjee gardens" Zarina Patel

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A reading: Excerpt from the TJRC commission report by @chris_mungai

"In the first place there is much of Kenya's past that is not part of Kenya's public knowledge"

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"I'm feeling many feelings... at university we discovered Moi at the beginning he seemed as a very nice man but it didn't last too long" @SitawaNamwalie

"There is Nyayo house but there is also the individual pain and chaos Moi caused" @SitawaNamwalie on the pain Moi caused her after firing her father

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"The fear was wrapped up" @SitawaNamwalie on Moi's oppression

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The defiance of Chelagat Mutai - a poem reading by @SitawaNamwalie

"She's silent now, she forgot, she is forgotten"

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"Imagine what they do to a woman"

@SitawaNamwalie

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Poem 2: Asking dying despots some hard questions

@SitawaNamwalie

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"What will you do with your failing mortality?"

@SitawaNamwalie

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"Will you mourn the ones that you massacred" @SitawaNamwalie

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"I'm allowing myself to feel whatever I want to feel" @thatguywaiyaki on reading an excerpt from the TJRC report

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Victim reports and witness statements read by @aleyakassam @tweetmoraa and Ngwatilo

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@ItsMugambi takes over the session to "lighten up" the session

Audience interaction: How did you interact with Moi

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A third excerpt from the TJRC report

Reading by @Ngartia

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"most people were killed and others kicked out of their farms"

@Ngartia

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A rant by @Ngartia on Moi's death

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"I propose we strip that day off it's significance" @Ngartia on the repealed Moi day on 10th October

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"We need new names for the schools as well, name them after the victims of Moi's oppression"
@Ngartia

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"Painting him a villain will be painting this city an array of colors"

Gathoni's poem on Kenya's leadership

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"New money calls for a new kipande, new kipande new demeanor"
Gathoni

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@tweetmoraa reads text messages from her mother concerning the event today and Moi's dictatorship

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"If you could detain Karl Marx, Na mimi I love you my sweetheart"

@tweetmoraa 's mother to her

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"I was 19 years old when I joined the underground movement to fight Moi" Zahid Rajan

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"It was a state of danger, a state of extreme terror... I hope none of you will ever have to live a life like that"
Zahid Rajan

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"Nothing has changed, all that's changed is change of card"

On the regimes after Moi

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"I hope everyone who drank nyanyo milk realizes they drank poison, because in that milk was the blood of the people Moi had killed"
Rajan

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A poem reading by Neo Musangi

A poem she wrote after the election where by Uhuru ran against himself and won

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This soil here: a poem by @aleyakassam

"On this soil they refused to eat no freedom no food"

"... This soil here saw their naked bodies, this soil here is witness to their power..."

"This soil here remembers her name, Wangari Maathai"

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As the event comes to an end, there is a screening of the film scarred by @judykibinge

And from us it's a wrap

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