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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Profile picture
@wmnjoya
Aug 17, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
That #Covid19Millionaires report is what @RookieKE calls mshangao reporting. I don't think we are helped by being told about the size and immorality of corruption. All we do is feel helpless, especially when the people in charge are saying the cartels are big but wont name them.
If theft is so deeply embedded in the Kenyan state, and international bodies like @WorldBank @EUinKenya are sending more money knowing it will be swindled anyway, but we Kenyans will pay back the money with interest, then we have to ask ourselves: "what is Kenya for?"
To call ourselves citizens is a contradiction. Kenyans are enslaved people. Our role is to provide labor and resources for international rackets between the corrupt US and UK governments and corporations and their Kenyan puppets.
Wakenya, does that even make sense, surely? Imagine one day finding auctioneers at your door, and when you ask what loan you took, they say that someone in another county took a loan and said the loan was to build you another house. So since he has defaulted on the loan, you pay.
As far as you know, the house you live in you built with your hands. You don't even know who this guy who took the loan is. You don't know the conditions under which the loan was taken. But you're in debt and being auctioned.

Can @WorldBank @EUinKenya tell us how that is fair?
Anyone who gives money to a corrupt regime is corrupt. You cant give sermons to Kenyans about the government when you didn't ask for our opinion about giving it money. @USEmbassyKenya @UKinKenya @EUinKenya @WorldBankKenya are all part the pandemic heist. #Covid19Millionaires
WaKenya, we're better off sending money to British political parties that can beat the Tories in the UK and get that blonde mop-head Prime Minister out, than spending money on an election campaign in Kenya. Voting in Kenya is a waste of our time.
So I'm not listening to wazungu diplomats telling us about Kenyan corruption. As far as I'm concerned, they're part of it. We need to start lobbying with American, UK and EU citizens and telling them that their governments are part of the corruption here. #PoliticalEducationKE

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Apr 13
We have no opposition because Kenya's democracy is elitist. Kenya's "democracy" is code for elites controlling the masses. Elections are for recalibrating the elite. They block us from fighting on issues. They fight each other and force us to watch and take (ethnic) sides.
The recalibration of the elite through elections is for giving ordinary Kenyans that they have the power to choose their leaders. But once the vote is cast, the recalibration begins. Lawyers in European wigs make fancy arguments in court, media looks active reporting numbers,
pastors pray for peace, private sector lectures us on going back to work, embassies endorse the vote, and Kenyans start following the appointments and sending congratulations. For the next 4 1/2 years, the elite keep circulating positions, making more appointments.
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Apr 6
I'm convinced that Kenya is sustained by Western money. We can't have an extremely insipid, corrupt elite, an anti-intellectual academy, a non productive economy, and the economy hasn't crashed. There is an outside factor sustaining this Kenyan economy, but not on our behalf.
Our lives are becoming more incoherent and more chaotic, but the institutions are still standing instead of collapsing. Then the Kenyan journalists and international media sustain the image of a coherent intelligentsia who can explain Kenya with the right theories and data.
Kenya's chaos must be being contained with foreign money. That's why no matter what we shout about the mess, GoK ignores us.

Kenya is one big collective cognitive dissonance. The world can see it, but we, who suffer it, can't.
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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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