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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Profile picture
@wmnjoya
Sep 19, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
.@JerotichSeii this is a history of the politicians using public participation to sneek in their personal agenda.

The Universities Act was amended by Matiangi by having a party in a hotel. Image
For #hudumanamba, the government performed a joke of public participation where even the members of the public called them out.

And they convened the meeting away from CBD to limit the people who could attend.
The other way in which politicians have bulldozed #bbireport is through intellectual and emotional abuse. They tell us that we don't read, we should not discuss documents before they're released, they limit us to the text and refuse to discuss context, etc wandianjoya.com/blog/ask-no-qu…
If we had psychologists worth their salt, they would be able to demonstrate these psychic and emotional tactics of manipulating the Kenyan population through trauma of previous violence, limiting the boundaries of discussion (like shutting down discussion of context) #bbireport
I forgot to say another thing about the #hudumanamba "public participation." The meeting was planned to be 3 hours long, and the program was tightly packed with government officials so that wananchi had not time to speak.
So, unlike what those @SpiceFMKE cynics are asking, this is not about protecting the people from the people. It's about protecting them from cynical manipulation by bureacrats who just meet the letter of requirements to mislead people.
The admission by the MP, herself a lawyer, is an admission that #BBIReport is being pushed by manipulating the trauma of people following the 2017 election violence. She said it was for avoiding going to the streets or to court. But isn't the constitution a legal document?
Why change the constitution if #BBIreport is for not going to court, yet the constitution will be used by the courts?

That's why this #BBInonsense is about manipulating the constitution to destroy itself. It's imploding the constitution from within, using its own rules.

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I think colonialism in Kenya has to be analyzed in unique terms. I've read about settler colonies in the Atlantic and Pacific, in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Algeria, but I don't think any of those countries has produced an indigenous middle class as confused as Kenya's.
I've tried to figure out what was unique about Kenya, and the only thing I can come up with is that we were colonized by British elites. Bruce Berman says that Kenya had the highest number of public school British people in the colonial administration and missions.
Carey Francis, the guru of the whole lot, was educated at Cambridge. He set the tone for academic snobbery and suffocating moralism that stifles the Kenyan mind.

The missionaries set the tone for a major hypocrisy that has infected the Kenyan elite and middle class.
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Mar 7
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.

But politicians wanted optics.
2. Competency is not a new thing. It has been around for over a century. In fact, it's quite similar to the logic of TVET, that's why Zakayo didn't replace the system. He believes in TVET, where knowledge is only physical or technical. #thesituationroom
3. The idea of "application" as the king of assessing knowledge is completely wrong, @nduokoh. It is a fantasy of employers, and of colonial settlers before them. It is an idea for blocking Africans from thinking, from the days of Booker T till now. #thesituationroom.
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Dec 31, 2023
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. 🧵

My context starts here.
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We were told in 2019 that CBK was replacing the old 1000 notes to get rid of money laundering. But in Kenya, we know that the truth will never be in the newspapers, and so we cannot ignore explanations that are not officially endorsed. Grace Musila talks about this reality.
The rumor was that Muigai was targeting his faux-brother, and eventual nemesis and later president, because the brother had a lot of money. Churches was the most notorious recipient.

But even if that wasn't true, I know that Kenya has a lot of money but no production.
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Nov 28, 2023
It's so useless to talk of decolonizing the mind when we don't even know what the mind is. Kenyans' hatred of knowledge and thinking, no matter the source of knowledge, shows that we don't even know what the mind is. So what are we decolonizing?
For example, we seem not to see that there's a difference between knowing an event happened and interpreting what that event MEANS. To interpret what it means requires knowledge of history and consciousness of narratives.
Narratives are stories, or the links between different events and meanings. Narratives are the things that tell us that if A happens, it means B. In Kenya, we have left that function to the government, the media and the church, which encourage us to hate history and thinking.
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Nov 15, 2023
This is simple the way to understand these fee hikes.

We're being charged for existing. That's it.

The very act of being alive is being reduced to a cost of the government. It's a colonial, anti-human, philosophy that makes should make us extremely angry. 🧵
Think of it this way.

Can we live without ID cards? Yes. Can we be married without government certificates ? Yes. Will we die without death certificates? Yes. Can we c ross borders without passports? Yes.

In other words, government documents are not a necessity.
If we can do these things without certificates, it means it's not us who who need the certificates, but the government itself. So really, this paperwork is not a "service" to wananchi. The government needs these documents more than we need the government.
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The cruelty of the arts industry leaves me speechless. I've talked about that cruelty many times, but the Euro-centric glam discourse of tabloids makes it very difficult to have a sober conversation about the arts in Kenya. nation.africa/kenya/life-and…
I tell students that they must sit and reflect on the arts, not just perform the arts. You know what? They don't listen because they are getting gigs from corporates at minimum pay. Nini Wacera mentions it when she talks of companies hiring babies with no professional experience.
And then she makes the important point that this lack of respect for arts as a profession makes us have poor quality production.

At the heart of it, is the lack of respect for the arts as WORK.

That's why we must stop talking of the arts as "talent."
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