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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

@wmnjoya

Apr 24

The only thing keeping the GoK in power is ignorance of Kenyans. And I don't mean the ignorance Jomo was talking about. Jomo was using the racist idea that Africans are ignorant because they don't know Western civilization.

I'm talking about ignorance as a war on consciousness.

Even the most vocal of voices, who were supposedly Gen Z, do not have political consciousness. They think that the right bureaucrats in the government will make Kenya work. Almost all the doctors who led #lipakamatender less than 10 years ago are now trying to make SHA work.

It's a complete failure of political philosophy that makes Kenyans think that GoK's problem is merit of the personnel. The majority of educated Kenyans think that way. And after school, they stop reading, so they sincerely think they are the messiahs whose skills will save Kenya.

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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

@wmnjoya

Apr 13

https://twitter.com/Nanjala1/status/1910624963226218611

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.

https://twitter.com/Nanjala1/status/1910624963226218611

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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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

@wmnjoya

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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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

@wmnjoya

Jan 6

https://twitter.com/MigunaMiguna/status/1875900449192349756

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? 🧵

https://twitter.com/MigunaMiguna/status/1875900449192349756

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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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

@wmnjoya

Jan 1

https://twitter.com/StandardKenya/status/1874350109326000248

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. 🧵

https://twitter.com/StandardKenya/status/1874350109326000248

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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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

@wmnjoya

Aug 21, 2024

https://twitter.com/Pawa254/status/1825789575706325358

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.

https://twitter.com/Pawa254/status/1825789575706325358

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."