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5 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Kenyans have to understand that the real struggle as black people for the last 400 years has been over OUR WORK.

We are fighting elites who cant work, won't work, but looks for all ways to steal our work.

Until we get that, we'll be entertained by squabbles over laws.
As far as this government is concerned, Kenya is a plantation where our work is exported. Whether we're farmers or fundis or doctors, all GoK sees is export.

Believe it or not. Up to TVET, elites see our work for the money the elites can make. soundcloud.com/wmnjoya/profes…
We have to fight for the right to work which gives us dignity and the right to build our expertise and use it. It's not a mistake that doctors train 7 years and can't work. Kenya elites MISUSE EXPERTISE as a way to control us.
And then for those who are kept out of the system, the government and parasite sector invent stories and systems to make us work for free. They steal our ideas, they give us short term contracts or they tell us we're unqualified.

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#LandFirst Mwalimu Wandia Profile picture
5 Dec
I will use this thread to explain the concept of "administrative bloat."

Administrative bloat is the employing of so many managers and supervisors, paying them excess salaries, while the people who do the actual work don't get employed or paid.

That is the government of Kenya.
Since the time of GoK's mother the colonial government, and its grandmother the British East Africa company, the role of the state is to control workers, control our work and its produce, and send it up the foodchain through chiefs, paramount chiefs all the way to London.
One of the cultural lies these parasistes have sold to us is that the only work that can be exploited is where there is a tangible product like tea or coffee. No. These exploit EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING. Health, education, faith, religion...EVERTYHING.
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5 Dec
I was very surprised to learn from @MikeMwendaK's book that A levels were a form of limiting education, both in the UK and East Africa.

In the UK, A levels were introduced after WWII to further limit the number of people in high schools seeking HE.
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At independence, the so called nationalist parties like KANU supported colonial ideas of education because they also saw shooling as an elitistist project to limit the number of students attending university. So KANU accepted the introduction of the higher school certificate.
A level added another examination barrier to entrance to university, despite the fact that few Africans had access to education. But as Kithinji explains, the problem at independence was that African elites shared the same ideas as their colonial foreparents.
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5 Dec
I have said all I have to say on #BBIreport, which is:

1. It's a waste of Kenyan's time and precious intellect to spend it on the tantrums of malignant narcissists. We should be working where our talent and skills call us to, but we're doing damage control and #bullshitjobs.
We have to have a country where Ndii's talent is used for our economy, not on campaigning to protect Kenya from Muigai's latest tantrums. Or where doctors are employed and working, not doing locums or being jobless while Cuban doctors get cars. #bbireport
2. The political class is useless. It has no talent or skills, and it cant work. It is always looking for ways to make Kenyans work and performing rituals of power and relevance that kill enough of us to truamatize the rest of us. That's all #BBIreport is. fb.watch/2a_uGTulDZ/
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28 Oct
Haiya, Kenyans, the only reason for unemployment is the structure of the economy so that a few get rich. Everything else is flowers. Language, skills, TVET, entrepreneurship nyef nyef...doesnt it occur to you that GoK always blames the victims of unemployment?
GoK does three things
1. it depresses innovation so that all jobs remain menial and the country dependent on foreign ideas
2. it dumbs down education and denies it to the majority of Kenyans, so that no 1. happens
3. It maintains unemployment to depress wages of the few employed
And if language was so important, why is the same GoK constantly attacking the arts education as irrelevant for employment needs?

Ai Kenyans, you need to learn to stop accepting everything GoK says. And to decide what you want. These contradictions are madness. Eish.
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28 Oct
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.
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.
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25 Oct
Kenyans, it's time to talk about the role of the #upperdeckpeopleKE in Kenya's stagnation: the academics, professionals and civil servants.

They are cynically misusing public participation to call a flawed process of #BBIreport the people's agenda.

They've done this before.
The politicians know that politically, #BBIReport has no case. None at all. Everybody can see through what the dynasties are doing.

So they are getting lawyers, professors and journalists to argue about technical details and refuse to allow questions of context and legitimacy.
The other day the #newsgang on @citizentvkenya even hosted a top GoK bureaucrat to discuss the proposals in BBI and completely evade the socio-political elephants in the room.

What is education for if we're going to train people to talk in the clouds rather than vitu kwa ground?
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