Any time there's a report of institutional violence against boys and men, a whole crowd twitter accounts justifies and minimizes it. It's bizarre, because Kenyans also whine about men being discriminated against.
Someone please explain to me how that works. I don't gerrit.
When the Kianjokoma brothers were killed by police, we were finally seeming to get the point across that the so-called defense of the boy child must include a conversation about institutional violence against men.
But it seems that point is either lost or politically dangerous.
Every time there's a tweet about institutional violence against boys or you g men, these perverted, pedophile and disgusting tweets show up.
I'm almost certain they're sponsored DCI or NIS.
The government tightly controls public narratives in Kenya and seems spectacularly afraid of how Kenyans interpret social issues, to the extent of using work permits to blackmail foreign journalists. The kind of perversion and pedophilia we are seeing here is just insane.
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Kenya is a shamelessly anti-African and traumatized society. When a Kenyan tweets about Kenyans suffering violence, especially in institutions, an army of bots descends here to save the reputation of the institution.
I'm convinced that the bots are paid by the government.
Who needs to save the reputation of the colonial institutions?
The ruling class and their foreign godfathers, because they have no legitimacy without the colonial institutions.
The middle class because they are educated and employed by colonial institutions.
Why do these people rush to sanitize violence from schools and from the police?
Because violence is evidence that the institutions don't work. Therefore, violence implies that the government is inefficient and the middle class are trained to do bullshit.
Nairobi Chapel South C @GowiOdera@OlungaOtieno invited @JerotichSeii and I to participate in their Sunday services. Power was available during the first service. During the second service, which is streamed live, @KenyaPower decided to strike. #switchoffkplc
It is was so precise. The power was there into the worship, then a few minutes before we were to speak, it went off.
It came back on when we were about to wrap up.
I know this government too well to believe in miracles. #switchoffkplc
Two days ago I was telling my students that these days, the system we are in sabotages Kenyans. GoK won't haul people to jail. They'll simply make things not work. Power will go, rooms will be unavailable, the person signing the cheque is sick, the policy isn't complete, etc...
I said in 2010 that having a president who was the son of a former president, and worse, with crimes against humanity charges, was going to send the Kenyan soul to a dark place. It would make us salivate for land as a substitute to work, value bloodlines instead of achievement.
Then in 2014, I said that the price we would pay for having him is that we would behave like Kenyan lives don't matter. That was when the president made some really horrible remarks about the rape of a toddler. wandianjoya.com/blog/any-kenya…
In 2017, after Godec imposed Muigai, I said the moral defeat of the Kenyan resistance would make us turn inward. We should expect more intimate violence because Kenyans would feel suffocated. Without an outlet, they would take out their despair and anger on spouses and kids.
This semester I'm teaching Shakespeare and the experience is enlightening, but also disturbing.
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.
It's kinda obvious that sanity prevails.
But choosing sanity comes at a price. I have to research on how it doesn't make sense to teach Shakespeare, and how he is still in the syllabus.
Mubako says that "we strive for Shakespeare — are made to strive — because his place in our curricula leads us to believe deep down that his world is better than ours." In Kenyan parlance, it means we love English culture more than our own.
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.
WHITE SUPREMACY AND KENYAN HEALTHCARE - AN ANNOTATED AUDIO-GRAPHY
Now that Mutahi Kagwe is exporting Kenya medical workers abroad, it's good to recap how much madharao GoK has for Kenyan people and sees healthcare as an export industry.
In 2017, @DenisGalava had the foresight to publish this article about how GoK sold out public healthcare to deny doctors jobs and force them to work abroad or pay them peanuts at home.
In 2019, I presented a paper at Witz in South Africa about the revolutionary piece by Dr Eunice Sango (RIP) and what the government is doing to health workers.