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9 Feb, 5 tweets, 3 min read
This conversation of #thetackle with @DavidNdii was just brilliant. I didn't realize that I have never listened to him for an extended length of time without a specific agenda. @geraldbitok you have done well.

fb.watch/3y3vtVa2dk/
There were a number of aha! moments for me. One was the distinction Ndii made between the class that wants wealth by entitlement, and the other by enterprise.

I love that. Because it also destroys the narrative of #upperdeckpeopleKE of "merit."
"Merit," which is what our education is about, is a pipeline through which the people who rule on the basis of entitlement throw crumbs at 3% of us to join them.

That's why #upperdeckpeopleKE don't support public education. They think their kids have a chance at #tyrannyof3pc
#upperdeckpeopleKE accept school as a torture chamber where people gain the the right to be exempt from enterprise when they graduate. Their job is to serve the 1% in maintaining the #tyrannyof3pc

That is what CBC is for. To protect the pipeline for the entitled.
That is why you find long term office workers and civil servants lecturing Kenyans on not seeking employment but starting a business. They see themselves as honorary members of the entitled class, and are telling us to accept our place.

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10 Feb
When I look at what is happening with CBC, I'm convinced more than ever that Muigai has to go. He needs to go before those kids are forced into secondary school and their education is stiffled.
#uhurumustgo
If Muigai leaves in 2021, we can stall this CBC and go back to the drawing board. It's not too late. But what he is preparing for our children is frightening. He wants them to become roaming manual labour who will never challenge his rule as president for life. #uhurumustgo
Kenyans must name each and every KICD official, especially PhD holders, who decided that the kids of Kenya must never attain the kind of education they got. This is tyranny of the bureaucrats having common interests with the dynasty to control the natives. #uhurumustgo
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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Profile picture
9 Feb
Early specialization in the education system is called one word.

ARISTOCRACY.

This idea that it's good to decide to be a cook when you are 6 years old came from the British class system through colonialism. The basic idea is that if you're born a hustler, you die a hustler.
In the Cruikshank's "British Beehive" of the 19th century, the idea was that people were born into careers, rather than chose them. The purpose of exams was not for intelligence but to determine the 3% who would escape their social status at birth. bl.uk/collection-ite…
That system arrived here in Kenya as colonialism. The best schools with the most resources were for wazungu, the next layer for Asians, and the bottom for Africans. Africans did more exams than the other upper levels so as to limit their progression.

That's been returned by CBC.
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30 Jan
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
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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Profile picture
30 Jan
My friend from another country is traumatized by the stories of school violence that Kenyans are casually recounting.

He can't believe the levels of violence, and the lack of moral outrage.

Outsiders' reactions help us see the absurdity of what we call "normal."
#tyrannyof3pc
Kenya has accomplished the feat that our mother country Britain has: we cover up our reality so effectively and project a different image of ourselves. That's why my friend is shocked that Kenya is like this. We are so good at cover up.
Cover up has become an instinct with us Kenyans, that during the PEV, the first concern of the elites was not the people dying, but what would happen to the Kenya brand. This brand thing is repeated to us through the colonial rhetoric of tourism. theelephant.info/features/2018/…
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29 Jan
Supporters of caning in schools are traumatized Kenyans proving that caning in schools is demeaning and doesn't work.

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Most of the people supporting violence in schools have nothing to say other than that kids deserve it. They have nothing to do except throw bile, trantrums and insults. That's already a sign.

But it points to another sign of trauma.
It's what Catherine Liu, art and media scholar, calls defeatism a refusal to think, and the replacement of contradiction with difference. We who believe in dealing with contradictions say "your position contradicts mine," and we explain our position so as to convince you of it.
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28 Jan
Dear @nationafrica @StandardKenya @TheStarKenya @CapitalFMKenya and other media

If you continue to report the Jubilee nonsense expressed by the president in Central to the exclusion of the rest of Kenya, you lose the right to lecture us about unity and BBI.

Get a conscience.
The media needs to speak with one voice and decide tell the president that it is unethical to talk on such important nation issues to the exclusion of everybody else, and then preach that BBI is for inclusion. That's an insult to our dignity and intelligence.
And don't listen to cultural purists with that tired argument about pride in our languages. It's a lazy, argument that doesn't apply here. We have an African language called Kiswahili that is accessible to more Kenyans.

We have to take a stand and stop being cowards.
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