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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Profile picture
@wmnjoya
Jul 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
People need to read this carefully and internalize it. Because in January 2022, the international and local media, @USEmbassyKenya @UKinKenya @EUinKenya will be building up a story that ordinary Kenyans are too tribalist.
theelephant.info/op-eds/2020/07…
In 2017 even Kenyan journalists refused to see the connection between inequality, anti-Tekayo-ism, elections results and violence. Only @jacobinmag, an American newspaper, made that direct connection. jacobinmag.com/2017/12/kenya-…
The tribalism story, or what God-ec called "age old" animosities, appeal to a racist narrative that Kenya's problem is that us the people
We haven't completely mastered democracy, tho we're ahead of other African countries. Our problems have no historical or social structures.
After all, which mzungu wants to waste time understanding African issues? Appealing to age-old whatever allows them to be stupid about us.

We should not follow them,.like #githerimedia, and be stupid about ourselves.

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Jan 6
By the way, we haven't talked about how CBC is giving your government data on your children. For years. I tried to flag those "assessments" as a form of spying, but you people said you preferred that to exams.

What are the implications for your children? 🧵
It makes me angry to explain because it's so obvious but our ears were blocked.

Let me tell you what continuous assessment and parental involvement are.

You take photos of your kids and send to the teacher. The teacher uploads those assignments EVERY TERM to the MoE server.
You celebrated when MOE said that your kids will be assessed by continuous assessments. But these marks are not left with the school. They go to GoK.

Then you ululated when they said now, 70% of marks for the end of cycle certificate will come from those assessments. I was like
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Jan 1
I know we hated literature in school (it's badly taught and very badly examined, anyway) but to understand the psyops happening here, we need to understand the difference between the symbolic and the literal, and why they matter. 🧵
I know we know this, but let's go over it again.

Symbolic language is language that is able to capture what is said beyond the literal words. So, for example, if we say Zakayo must go, that's a shortened form of talking about our political problems and bad leadership.
Without that short form, every time you speak, you would start from scratch...Governance, elections, corruption etc before arrivimg at Must Go.

2nd benefit of the symbolic form is solidarity. Whether I'm talking about education, you about abductions, we land at the same point.
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Aug 21, 2024
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.

It's the same thing they did with Jua Kali. They told people "rudi mashambani," then ILO came and told them "look at fundis doing something new. How cute."
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Aug 10, 2024
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? 🧵
Sadly, the answer is limited to morality. It's that we have leaders who don't care and are greedy. We take it as a natural flaw of human beings, if not Africans. And that's where I disagree with Kenyans.
Yes, individual human beings can be greedy. And we know from our folk tales that greed was something that was loathed by our cultures. What we have now isn't individual greed. It's a system of institutions and values that instil, promote, and protect greed.
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Jul 29, 2024
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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Jul 18, 2024
We Africans have to replace is our metaphor for oppression. We see empire and the African elites as predators because they monopolize violence. But they are not predators. They're parasites. Parasites are almost worse than predators, even though the end result is the same.
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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