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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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standardmedia.co.ke/education/arti…
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 They're going to blame us, the academics, as the reason why funding is being withdrawn from education.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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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.
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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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This ideology is largely supported by people in institutions: politicians, journalists and the church, although they differ on the moral angle about whether to engage with the establishment or not.

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2. The subsequent massacres in Githurai
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We're being gaslit here.

1. CBC was not a curriculum review. It was a system REPLACEMENT. If it was a curriculum review, all that would have changed is the content (curriculum is a posh term for content) without bringing back pre-8.4.4 system.

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My thoughts on housing levy, which I hope are the last.

The point of thinking is to put events in their context. I have now learned that that is absolutely hated by the Kenya elite and the middle class. But I will do it anyway. 🧵

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