Thread by @wmnjoya

On Lupita and Brand Kenya.

An album thread.

This is what @BrandKenya says about us. I took it from the older Magical Kenya website before the web page was removed.

Tell me how Lupita would fit here.

This photo I've shared numerous times. It was a poster at the JKIA arrivals.

Where would Lupita fit here?

https://twitter.com/wmnjoya/status/1065159827377266688?s=20

Then this one was an article in @TheStarKenya in January or February 2008, at the height of the post election violence. The concern was not for Kenyans dying but what tourists would think.

Na Lupita je?

Then there is this photo taken from the 2018 @Min_TourismKE Tourism Master plan.

How can we accept such things to be said about us?

And it says alot when the only response of government officials is on style of what we say, not on the substance.

So Lupita isn't the one disrespecting the elders. They are already doing that to themselves on their own.

We have a government that is solidly colonial, whose commitment is to run the country with the same structures handed over to them by the colonial master. And Fanon warned us that this would happen.

And there's a direct link between the logic of tourism and every other mess we suffer under this government.

Fixing it requires the hard and unglamorous work of dismantling our institutions and building new ones.
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