There's no point of a state capture investigation when you gazette education capture. Kenyans think what power wants to capture is the state, but what it really wants to capture is the children. Because they tie down power for the next two generations. Nkt. #EducationCaptureKE
Foreigners poach the best talent from Kenya, crush their innovations, give them jobs in global organizations to detach them from contact with people on the ground, then weaponize those they poached to destroy our school system. And then we think state capture is only about money.
Wazungu know that to capture our thinking and our youthful energy is to capture everything, but Hustler government is stuck in the colonial narrative of TVET.
Would the colonialists have come up with TVET if they thought it would lead to development?
Kenya is cursed with the African elite most committed to selling their own children. Other African countries don't have enough educated people to stand up to capture.
The story of British media and Jeremy Corbyn is a story about how the media picks one narrative, drowns everyone in it, finds irrational and emotional supporters to rant about it, until their story looks like the reality. Kenya media has done the same with BBI and CBC.
The media tactic is to overwhelm us with a single story and go crazy or silence us when we introduce a diversity of stories. I have been called names by CBC supporters less for opposing CBC and more for complicating the stories. The danger of the single story by Chimamanda.
If you look at the pro-CBC replies to my tweets, you will notice that they don't respond to what I actually say. They'll say employment, I'll say employment is an economic issue, then they'll respond using different words about skills that kids need to earn a living.
I started #MaishaKazini because of the lies about education and work that we were being told in defence of CBC. I thought the media and NGO people had flawed ideas and that we were having a debate. Because I was not being heard, I started a channel. youtube.com/c/MaishaKazini
I tackled these lies:
1. We don't need theory, only skills 2. Unemployment comes from bad education 3. Exam obsession is caused by the curriculum 4. Our education is too theoretical
All these lies are racist and designed to keep Africans from thinking #EducationCaptureKE
With @m_ogada we showed again and again how Western capital and Kenyan elites are determined to separate our work from the dignity and material benefits that we should get from our work. #EducationCaptureKE
The roots of TVET are plantation slavery. Once slavery ends, the US had to find a way of making sure that African Americans dont get an education that leads to citizenship. That model was brought to Kenya in the 1920s.
But the racist argument that Africans don't need to think, they only need to work with our hands, led to a misdiagnosis of colonial education as theoretical instead of practical.
Another argument of GERM is that we have unemployment because kids don't have practical skills.
We have unemployment those who get rich on the work of others need the unemployed to be so desperate that they sell their labor for zero. #EducationCaptureKE
I'm no longer in support of CBC. I'm done. I'm not going to say "maybe if..." anymore. My position is we go back to 8.4.4, and we reform our own system, with our own teachers.
It's ok if I'm alone. I've made my peace with this position. #educationcaptureKE
Not that kids go back to grade 3, but they go to std 7 in 8.4.4. Teachers understand 8.4.4 because they've been doing it for years. They can fill in the gaps they notice, and suggest how we can reform our education, our way. #educationcaptureKE
CBC can't be fixed because it wasn't ours to start with. Our schools system was infiltrated by the GERM (global education reform movement) who took us for a ride for 5 years. They captured the narrative, they captured the media, they captured @EduMinKenya
Short of asking for a right of reply, here is my response:
The last time a person of Mr. King's profile was so authoritative on our education system, it was when a Mr. Jones from British Council gave us CBC. nation.africa/kenya/blogs-op…
The education philanthropies like the one Mr. King works for have too much say in our education system and no democratic oversight. Like Mr Jones, Mr King lacks the experience and credentials to be supervising education policy in an entire continent.
CBC was the product of global philanthropies leeching off education systems. Uwezo was funded by them. They produced the research saying our education was a disaster, made Sara Ruto the voice of that messaging, after which she transitioned into KICD and then became CAS education.
The way the president talked to the fintech people yesterday is the way the CS should talk to the professors and education bureaucrats. He should tell them to stop being opaque, throwing empty concepts at us, and ask them why they have refused a public dialogue about CBC.
He just needs to ask them a simple question: how come we have never seen you KICD people in media houses on the same platform with your critics? Did you ever reach out to them and ask for a public dialogue.
A simple question like that will force them to fix the system.
Right now they are simply doing cover up.
Some of us know the technical problem with CBC. We can share what we know for free, so there is no need for the CS to deal with the technicalities. What we need is a politician to tell the technocrats in Jogoo House to face the public.