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@wmnjoya
Aug 26, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Reconciling the past to the present is not about lying about our past. It's about going to the past to understand why the present isn't working. That problem isn't constitutional as Tekayo claims. It's a political problem. #UhuruKenyatta
It is ridiculous for the winner whose family has taken all from 1960s to the present, to give us lectures about not having the system he benefited from. If Tekayo is serious, he needs to get out of office first.

He needs to keep his hands off our constitution. #uhurukenyatta
Kenyans must be wary of politicians narrowing the need for social change to amending a document. The Kenyan people are sovereign over theconstitution. We provide the spirit of that constitution. If he amends it, it will be #uhurukenyatta's constitution, not ours as we the people.

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Jun 15
Grade 9 parents have been given this whatever called RIASEC which they are supposed to use in choosing career pathways and schools for their children.

I know we want to concentrate on our kids, but we're Africans. Nothing we are told to do is innocent.
So we have to understand where it's coming from, and why GoK bureaucrats, in their wisdom, decided that Kenyan parents should be subjected to it.

RIASEC is what people call psychometrics, where tests are used to measure people's intelligence or personalities.
Psychometrics are the offspring of scientific racism. Their roots are in 19th century attempts of Euro-American scientists to use tests prove that Africans were intellectually inferior.

And of course, they coincide with the end of slavery, when Africans start seeking education.
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Jun 14
I cannot warn enough that the damage CBE/CBC will do to our children's psyche is going to be phenomenal. Parents, you have to wake up and listen. You have to stop looking at the what (content) of education, and think of the how your kids are developing. This isn't a joke.
The relationship between children and parents should be sacred. No teacher should be telling you what to do on weekends, less still, they shouldn't be telling you to take PHOTOGRAPHS of that activity. In this day and age? THINK! Do you want photos of your children in a data base?
As a parent, your job is to develop intimacy, trust and identity in your child. At home, your child should be learning to help around without the threat of a stick or a lower grade. This cannot happen if teecha is always telling you what to do over the weekend.
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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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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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