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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

30 Jan, 10 tweets, 6 min read

A few weeks ago, I asked this question: since Muigai doesn't respect the 2010 constitution, why is he invested in #BBInonsense, and in getting Kenyans to accept? He can just run for another term, send cops to kill people, the US will support him and he will remain in office.

The great #KOT explained this to me: #BBINonsense isn't about destroying the constitution. It's about destroying the story. Unfortunately, the only story which we use to challenge Muigai is the constitution.

We don't know our history, we have no theology, our arts are commercialized, our cultures are corrupted, and our education is destroyed. The last pillar standing between us and full scale uthamaki fascism is the Constitution 2010.
#BBINonsense #UhuruinSagana

I honor the lawyers and those working hard to ensure #BBINonsense doesn't happen. But I hallenge us in the arts, in faith, in history to do our work to spport those in law with philosophical, theological, artistic and educational arguments against #BBINonsense.

If Magoha can say, despite the constitution, that kids should be caned, it means that education is completely spineless. #uhuruinsagana #BBInonsense

Uthamakistan has done a thorough job of confusing politics, identity, culture and tradition, that's why Kenyans are not saying that #uhuruinsagana is NOT African and it's not cultural. It's actually colonial, no matter what language it is in. #bbinonsense

Cultural scholars should have done the work of clarifying the difference between politics, identity, culture and tradition. Instead, they fight over who has the right credentials and blast white people with the same, same anti-colonial arguments made in the 1960s. #bbinonsense

Our parents won their cultural argument, that's why the wazungu handed over the government. We are yet to make our own argument, which is that despite our black African leaders, power and institutions in Kenya are STILL colonial. #BBInonsense #uhuruinsagana

#BBINonsense is trying to return us to the colonial arrangement which our elders fought against when we got the 2010 constitution. We must run with the baton forward, not return to the starting line where our elders started from.

The reason why #uhuruinsagana has to resort to bribes, manipulation, secret meetings, lies and force is because #BBINonsense has no argument. None at all. If it did, everything would be out in the open.

All this secrecy is an admission of illegitimacy.

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