On Lupita and Brand Kenya.

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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?
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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23 Jan
.@NationAfrica knows that it doesn't have the argument to justify promoting TVET in its current colonial form. So they get young students to write articles so that Mwalimu here finds it difficult to challenge a young person.

That's identity politics. nation.africa/kenya/news/the…
When it comes to complicated things like policy, the responsible thing to do is get experts to write. During the CBC roll out, I constantly asked media to host a debate where the experts who wrote the thing defend it. No such debate happened. We still don't know who wrote CBC.
We have noted that commercial media houses have become notorious for not employing seasoned journalists. Journalists are not allowed to improve their craft and carry out long term investigations. Most are let go to join public relations, the few who remain become managers.
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22 Jan
#Hustlernation is built on trauma which Kenyans don't want to deal with.
And it's really interesting that when Kenyans talk about the hustle, they equate it not to the work they do, but to a rich man.

The kind of trauma that makes you suppress your own story and focus on someone else's is the stuff of fiction. #hustlernation
Kenyans are so exploited. And every time we try to talk about it, we're told the problem is "policy," or that we're not following the rules.

The people who should be helping us are unions. But what is @AtwoliDza doing? Promoting the agenda of exploiters. #hustlernation
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17 Jan
I have a theory.

The reason why Kenyans are not rioting about the Nairobi insurrection is because the government of Kenya is as useless as a parasite to most Kenyans. It's like a mosquito. You only notice it because it gives you malaria. If it didn't, you wouldn't notice it.
Most Kenyans live avoiding GoK as much as they can. The problem of #BBIreport is like the mosquitos and malaria. It doesn't matter if these thugs create and divide positions in BBI. The problem is that it's us who will pay. That's the malaria.
Those of us against BBI have talked so much of the mosquitos, but we haven't shown Kenyans the malaria. Kenyans need to understand what BBI will do to them, not how BBI is beneficial for politicians. Kenya has always benefitted politicians, it's not going to start with #BBIreport
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23 Dec 20
This is insane. Colonialism happening in the 21st century, right under our noses.
And what is annoying is the secrecy clause. Secret from whom? The community? And the fact that it is a so called contract means that these thieves expect the contract to be enforced by the state which is funded by us tax payers. So we have to know what contact is being enforced.
But as Ogada says, these guys have private militias on Kenyan soil to shoot the Maa people if they trespass.

No wonder the Kenya army is militarizing Nairobi. The partition of Kenya is being done among armies, 1885 style.
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20 Dec 20
There are parts of the Christmas story that I had never paid attention to until the reign of Tekayo.

During Christmas last year, extra-judicial killings reminded me of King Herod when he ordered the slaughter of baby boys because he was afraid of they would threaten his power.
No different from today. Young people, and young men, are the dreamers. They have energy and potential to lead. That's why they are mowed down by the police.
This Christmas, as we head to a forced referendum, I'm reminded of the taboo of counting people that was forced by the Roman empire. Joseph and Mary were forced to make a journey to Jerusalem while Mary was close to her due date
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16 Dec 20
Corruption doesn't start at the public purse. It starts at the basic idea that people can be stupidly rich from no work of their own, but of others.

So until we deal with the monstrosity of the title deed, we will not fundamentally address corruption in Kenya.
That system of stealing people's work starts with the title deed.

What is a title deed? It is not the land. It is the legitimacy of her majesty the queen to own and decide what happens with land.
When someone has a title deed, they are saying that the queen has allowed them to use that land mentioned in the deed, and that the queen is committed to using force to validate that deed.

The problem is, who gave the queen the authority to guarantee use of the land?
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