We Kenyans multi-task every day. We endure abuse from bosses, we go to manage CBC homework with the kids. Ati you cant serve us because we have so many documents and you are so stupid that you can only manage with one #hudumanamba?
Kuweni serious.
First of all, is #hudumanamba going to give us services GoK is withdrawing from? You privatized hospitals and universities. You are shipping trained Kenyans to work abroad. You're always telling as "pirate sector" nyef nyef, we're even wondering what a government is for.
You're not hiring teachers, you're torturing the few we have with paperwork, you gave us a junk promise that laptops would teach children, and those machines are useless.
You are withdrawing from providing services but telling us that #hudumanamba will ease service delivery?
If all that bureaucracy you pile on us is overwhelming even you, the alternative is very simple: reduce it! But don't cheat us that yet another form will make life easier for us.
#Hudumanamba will make life harder for us. It will put us under surveillance and attach all we own.
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The CIA had done their homework when they put up Trevor Noah to give that China-Africa shpill.
They were prepared for Africans to ask "what about the US?"
Their answer is genius: "you're saying the same thing."
It's genius because it's shutting you up by agreeing with you.
If they disagreed, that would send Africans into proving how the US has decimated Africa since the days of the Cold War. It would have got more people to learn about US economic hitmen.
So it's not in US interests to disagree that the US has a more sordid history than China.
It's psyops, getting under Africans' skin through language. Manipulate us to restrict our conversation about colonialism to China but suggesting that American imperialism is obvious to everyone, so no need to discuss it.
How do we remove this political ideology that one can "improve people's standards of living" by force? Even the colonialists said that they were here for Africans' own good. Conservationists steal our land for our own good. @StateHouseKenya@StandardKenya standardmedia.co.ke/national/artic…
A posh, club hopping and globe trotting kid can't know what Uhuru Park meant for kanairo. On Sundays that place was full with families because there is barely any green and free recreation space. Then they baricaded and dug up the place and ignored our questions.
So all those families were violently dispersed without an interim alternative.
Surely you can't expect us to believe that that was for our own good.
The 0.1% seem to have no clue what dignity means for human beings.
I've learned that when GoK says people cannot do A if they don't have B, it's not a declaration of enforcement. It's a license to terror. GoK wants us to walk around afraid of being stopped and asked for B. GoK is giving police the license to harass us. Or worse.
The directive is also for the benefit of Western donors and scholars. If you look at international documents and even published research, everything GoK announces is taken at face value and Kenya is depicted as the sweetest kid on the planet. GoK loves international optics.
Either we destroy the entire school system, from ECD to university, or we create alternative avenues to knowledge acquisition and certification.
There are no two ways about it. The monopoly of the colonial school system is destroying us. #CBCmustfall#TeachandGoHomeKE
Our colonial school system, run from Jogoo House, cheats administrators and teachers that we're SOOOOO important, that Kenyans cannot succeed without going through the nonsense we teach and the violence with which we cane.
We educators a reality check. We're not gods.
This arrogance has made us build inspectorates upon inspectorates. We're wasting so much money on torturing and monitoring teachers, on exams and on verification of qualifications. The money we spend on this bs, useless work could go to libraries, innovation, sports and the arts.
Ten years ago I was saying that lecturers should not accept the commercialization of universities. But they were bribed into silence with payments from parallel programs. So the collapse of universities was inevitable.
In the Kibaki years, universities accepted that they could make money instead of relying on the exchequer. That small acceptance is like the story of the camel that asked the tent owner to cover his head, then cover the neck, then eventually the camel took over the tent.
The problem commercializing universities is that 1) lecturers suck at business 2) the university starts spending on administrative fluff. This principle was explained by Graeber: the more you adopt market forces, the more admin and bullshit jobs increase.
I hope we realize that there's a constant theme here. Whether we're talking of children in schools, extra judicial killings or rape, even Miguna's illegal explusion...the constant theme is Kenyans blaming the victims for violence.
So when do brutalizing teachers, rogue cops, rapists or officials disobeying court orders ever become responsible and accountable for their actions? What are we saying about them? That they are sadists, because the sadist blames the victim for the violence the sadist inflicts.
Kenya has a sadistic culture of glorifying cruelty because we support power at any cost, even at the cost of the victim. That's the essence of colonialism - the justification of power and the condemnation of victims.