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6 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
.@johnallannamu I revive my offer to give a cultural interpretation of these mega scandals. #fallofthepride is a typical story of theft sold to the public with the big dream, neoliberal narrative. We get conned not only because of the theft. The thieves also cook up a good story.
.@johnallannamu The "buying spree" belongs to the neoliberal narrative as motivational speaking and prosperity gospel. All of them are about being positive, seeing the best in people... they dump the seasoned professionals because they see through the bs #fallofthepride
.@johnallannamu 2010 was a year of all that be positive junk. It was even in universities. Check the Mugenda miracle of KU as well. It was the time CEO's could do no wrong, helped by your peers in the mainstream media houses. #fallofthepride
It's about the story. The story. The story. The arts Kenya keeps trashing. The stone which Kenya continues to reject turns out to be the most important of them all.

If you don't believe me, check the story of Theranos.
#fallofthepreide @johnallannamu
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6 Oct
The story of KQ is the story of almost every sector in Kenya. We Kenyans have to understand this if we are to get closer to the root of corruption.

Let me tell you the common signs. #fallofthepride
1. Boards full of financiers and no experts in the service that the company offers

2. CEOs who are literal super stars, talking in the media about the great expansion programs they have

3. The assumption that expansion is necessarily improvement and success #FallOfThePride
4. Retrenchment of seasoned staff, flight of others, and the replacement of those seasoned staff with highly paid administrators and inexperienced juniors

5. Madharau for Kenyan experts. Typical Kenyan behavior of preferring foreigners #FallOfThePride #maishakazini
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4 Oct
Hustling is a term that was popularized by hip hop. It originally referred to those working in the illegal economy. But with neoliberalism, the meaning changed, as Lester K Spence explains.
Neoliberalism meant the withdrawal of public support for social services like health and education. To cope with the harder times, the idea of hustling changed to make hustling sound like a requirement and a noble thing to do. So it was designed to discourage political questions.
Prof Spence's analysis applies to Kenya. The hustle represents those who are screwed by the economy, but who are not asking how the economy got there. A few years ago, the deepee said that he hustled his way to wealth, and that is equated to the hustle of the mkokoteni pusher.
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25 Sep
I watch this documentary by @AfUncensored and I'm so frustrated. Because I know this: there is no language in Kenya for us to see this as a violation of human dignity.
I have occupied the fields of education and Christianity for all my life. I know that people who pass through those institutions are taught to be inhuman. Despite all the language of religion and knowledge, to be educated and to be a Christian is to be anti-human.
Which academic, which clergy, will speak up for the downtrodden in Kenya? None. The students will never talk about them in class, the congregation will never hear about them on Sundays. When Magoha says nonsense about the poor, students write theses to justify his ideas.
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24 Sep
Cheikh Anta Diop, A MAN, said that gender in Africa was about philosophical approaches, not about biological men and women.

So this bile against 2/3 rule is a colonial and racist inferiority complex.
Colonialists separated men from community and gave them capitalist perks like money so as to exploit them and emasculate them for labor. In a colonial report, the British complained about men in Ukambani not joining the colonial economy because they were potential warriors.
Even Europe, the Scandanavia which Kenyans like to cite, came to the same realization when the saw that the banks that fell during the economic crash of 2008 had the problem of adventurism at the expense of people.
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24 Sep
This is a very good point. The people whining about Kenyan education not being like in Scandanavia are the same ones spilling vitriol about women.

Well guess who are driving the education conversation in Kenya? Women. You don't listen, then you accept a racist, patriarchal CBC.
Women in Kenya are fighting for environment, health, education, energy justice, against extra-judicial killings, constitutionalism. We're not asking for a woman to go to State House to get a handshake gender deal and a secret report for a referendum. We are saying #TekelezaKATIBA
I'm not saying that men are not also fighting for these things but that the people opposing the implementation of the constitution are fighting for not just inequality, but also for Kenyan politics to remain immature obsession with personality rather than issues.
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21 Sep
Wasanii wa Kenya: the US wants duties on American digital products like music and e-books removed. Mark you,
@KRACare is taxing Kenyan ones.

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US also wants Kenya to "establish rules to prevent governments from mandating the disclosure of computer source code or algorithms." This means that US could collect data on us, or disseminate nonsense like Cambridge Analytica, but not be held to account.
The US also wants to import the mess of its healthcare by making its drugs as expensive and protected like they are in the US.

Mark you, US pharma runs a racket in the US. When their patents are about to expire, they repackage the drugs so that they can remain expensive.
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