Thread by @wmnjoya

This story of Coast people not getting employment because of language is a distraction. It follows the typical habit of GoK blaming the youth for their own unemployment. Mara it's wrong degrees, mara it's being millenial, mara it's not being entrpreneurial, now its Kiswahili.

https://twitter.com/PwaniTribune/status/1320613888082280450

One story that is not told enough is that the docks at Mombasa were a site of freedom struggles by workers at the same time as the Mau Mau revolt. The boycotts and strikes there, even without official unions, scared the hell out of the British.

The strikes there threatened the main economic vein of exporting Kenyan resources out of Britain. It also angered the British that the workers were multi-ethnic and were putting economic struggle at the center. In the times of USSR, Western capitalism couldnt afford that.

The British government detained Mombasa strike leaders, started to organize official unions British style (with people like Mboya) and prevented the radical workers who linked political freedom to economic struggle from running for union leadership.

So it is really ironical that a government official repeated stereotypes at the very same hsistorical site of political struggle. This shows how little civil servants know and care about our history.

https://twitter.com/KenyaDock/status/1320263775619026944?s=19