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Feb 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This week, our PR manager in charge of health at @MOH_Kenya was launching a program in English at KMTC.

It's absolutely insulting, mediocre and foolish. Just think how incoherent it is:

1. This is a PR manager

2. The PR manager is in charge of health
3. The PR manager is launching a program for teaching English

4. The PR manager is launching an English program in a MEDICAL school (in other words, his legacy in healthcare is to improve performance in English exams)
5. He's launching a program for English in a government that says the arts and humanities are useless

6.He's training nurses to treat not Kenyans but British citizens in the UK.

7. This is the continent that made US and UK rich through forced export of our labor 400 years ago.
If this makes sense to you, and you see no contradiction, and you believe the crap about benchmarking and global standards, you are probably mentally unwell. And I'm saying this rohi safi, because these contradictions increase mental health problems.
There are mental health problems that come the bio-medical problems, but I'm not talking about those. I'm talking about the mental unwellness that comes from colonialism forcing us to make the insensible look sensible.
The Muigai government has become an incoherent vampire that requires more mental energy from us to make life look coherent when it's not coherent. That's why we're sick, stressed and depressed. Our minds can't handle the contradictions because the contradictions are too many.

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The most obvious issue is why I would be teaching Shakespeare in 2022 in Kenya. But changing is a choice between going through the bureaucracy of the education ministry and my sanity.
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Linguistics, literature, psychology, philosophy and theology and are the most important subjects of the decade. If you spent the 2010s believing the garbage about marketable subjects, get your spirits and your minds on, dust off that side of your life and get in touch with it.
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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.

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