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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Profile picture
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Sep 11, 2020 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
This report requires an explanation from @CUE_Kenya @StandardKenya. After reading the story, I realize that the story of useless programs is more of an insult to the academy than an actual reality. The media and GoK need to stop this abuse.

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The truth is this: the banks and western financial parasites want to turn university education into a source of revenue. That's why they need GoK to stop funding universities. There nothing more to the story. @StandardKenya @CUE_Kenya
When I opened the paper, the first thing that surprised me is that degrees in tourism are on the list of relevant courses. Tourism is a junk degree. Surely. It was invented by anthropology departments as PR to save them from the finance hawks. @CUE_Kenya @StandardKenya
Then I looked to the list of so called relevant programs for #kenyavision2030, expecting to find performing arts and humanities missing from the list. Lo and behold, the programs are listed! @StandardKenya @CUE_Kenya
So basically, nothing is going to change academically. The only thing that will change is the funding, which means that our youth will become imprisoned in debt if they make the mistake of attending university. @CUE_Kenya @StandardKenya
Peopleof Kenya: University education is your right. It's not a product that you buy. You don't have to attend if you don't want to, but it's your right to attend if you want. This narrative from @CUE_Kenya @StandardKenya digital serves only one purpose. To convince us otherwise.
The banks and financial sharks who want to be the conduit for university fees are not going to say that this policy is about them and their greed. They're going to blame us, the academics, as the reason why funding is being withdrawn from education. @CUE_Kenya @StandardKenya
Basically, what I'm saying is @CUE_Kenya @StandardKenya are being dishonest and abusive. There's no problem with the programs. The problem is that people want to eat the money students pay to universities for their education, but they're telling the public that the problem is us.
What's important to realize is that capitalists shout about innovation but they are anything but. They dont innovate; they simply look for where people are gathered, like schools, and plot how to make money from that. And abuse us for asking questions. @CUE_Kenya @StandardKenya

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Jun 24
Where Gen Z's are today was where my generation was 30 years ago. In our 20s, stuck in IMF SAPs, an AIDS pandemic, and a clueless political class gatekeeping a new generation out of adulthood.

We need a discussion about reconstructing Kenya to avoid these 30 year cycles.
The first thing we need to understand, which my generation didn't, was the role of the West. The @IMFNews and @WorldBank are main actors in these 30 year cycles. They are scared of a new generation of Africans rising and are manipulating our economies to block them from doing it.
@IMFNews @WorldBank It is not a coincidence that the hammers which the foreigners are dealing to African economies also coincide with the same thing in Nigeria and AES, and with the dumbing down of our school system. Gen Z's are in an anti-imperial struggle.
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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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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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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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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,
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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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