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Feb 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Kenyans, please. The problem you have is not with what Riggy G said, it's that he said it. How many times did you blast us for saying that the business model shouldn't be used for government services?

This noise you're making is about stylistics, it's not about substance.
I criticized this business model in #KenyaVision2030. I even said we should not be using Vision 2030 to determine the education of our kids. People told me off.

So what's the problem now? That the guy announcing it wears ugly shirts instead of using a glossy paper brochure?
In 2019, I wrote that GoK had been reduced to a bank that extracts money from us and gives it over to business to provide services that are supposed to be social, but never are.
wandianjoya.com/blog/governmen…
When I wrote about HELB, I said, "We, the Kenyan people, need to demand a real government which knows what government is, not a private sector that uses the tools of the state to increase money but offer no improvement in social services to its people."
wandianjoya.com/blog/the-gover…

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Feb 23
Both the left and the right can't tolerate liberals. But the liberals rule because both they and the right gang up against the left. With liberals silencing the left, the right comfortably campaigns for fascism, to which liberals reply that we can fix everything with "inclusion."
It's insanity.

This is the elephant in the room: capitalism. The right thinks it will work if more violence is used on minorities. Liberals think that it will work the beneficiaries are more diverse. The rest of us know the truth: It can't work. It's not working. It wont work.
Economists are cheating us that capitalism is about the market. No, capitalism is about monopolies, not the markets. Think of the Mama Mbogas at the market. They share goods, help each other with change, take care of each other's stalls. That's not capitalism.
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Feb 22
Watch this guy in the video.

He seems to be assisting the arrest. Once the tear gas is thrown and Eric is arrested, he calmly walks away. 🤔

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In Kenya, political gatherings are always infiltrated. If today I have a workshop on anything remotely political, there'll be a cop. I have said repeatedly that where two or three people gather in Kenya, the state has a mole. So I assume every protest crowd has cops in it.
NIS is also very good at organizing vents to evacuate people's anger. In the days when Twitter worked, they would use sexual hashtags. And remember just this weekend we got another unofficial video of the Health CS talking of abstinence. The video came out of the blues.
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Feb 10
Kenyans used to wonder why the country seems to always be caught in a war between two major ethnic groups. They thought it had something to do with oaths and initiation.

Actually, it's about aristocratic entitlement inculcated by the colonialists.
I've been reading autobiographies of the first generation of Kenyan elites, and this is what I've read between the lines from what they've said:

One tribe was told they were entitled to power by land, the other by Western education. Nyinyi wengine mjisort.
ES Atieno Odhiambo and BE Kipkorir explained this elite formation in many of their writings. God bless them. It was shocking to me how the missionaries, especially the English and the Scots, carefully educated men with the intention that they would run Kenya.
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Feb 9
If we Kenyans read people's ideas beyond their positions on the governments of the day, Ndii has been ideologically consistent. Two, being a public intellectual is not a title or vocation that one actively seeks. They just engage publicly in public issues using their expertise.
Ndii attacks politicians for not making capitalism and democracy work smoothly together. He imagines that we can have functioning capitalism and respect for individual rights. He doesn't address the internal contradictions of capitalism that make it clash with democracy.
Ndii is also impatient with the hypocrisy of Kenya middle class liberalism. We have crippling inequality that risks upsetting the Kenya capitalist ship. He does not have time for liberal chat about rights and the conveniences of the middle class when 97% are excluded.
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Feb 9
We need a left equivalent of Oprah. Someone who can teach us to heal our spirits, but also connect our soul pain to the material conditions and politics we live in. The left's (ironically bourgeois) disdain for emotions and spirituality has left that space open to fascists.
Fascists are notorious for copy pasting material analysis done by the left and then tying it to the language or emotions and spirituality, such as imperial mono-identity, discourse of war and Euro-Christianity. The response of the left is pathetic.
The left responds to spiritual distortion with material analysis. That's insanity. Dawa ya moto ni moto. Spirituality requires spiritual answers. Material problems require material responses. Material answers cannot answer both material and non material questions.
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Feb 8
I no longer know what to say when people use Harvard and Oxford as the standard of higher education. Who decided that they are the best universities in the world? It wasn't a democratic decision. It was the result of careful marketing. It's hot air.
standardmedia.co.ke/business/artic…
And then, Ivy League and Oxbridge alone don't tell the whole story. We need to look at the whole US and UK higher ed landscape to see what mess US and UK are in. Extreme inequality, students suffering on back breaking loans, and academic corruption. thecrimson.com/article/2022/1…
US and UK hyped their universities simply to make the world's elite salivate for their universities like people would salivate for a Rolex watch. Time doesn't change whether you use a Rolex or the clock on your cheap phone. All the Rolex does is mesmerize people with your status.
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