Mwalimu Catherine

Daughter of the Most High, passionate friend, patriotic citizen, and educator par excellence!

[Mwalimu Catherine @Cgatheru]

@MariahKiny98583 Waaaaargh...pipo are woke!

[Mariah 🇰🇪🇰🇪 @MariahKiny98583]

We the voiceless all feel this way...but tuko Kadi we will vote wisely

and this time it's not about the tribe we want leaders not rogue leaders

[Mwalimu Catherine @Cgatheru]

@AnuarSaddat "Will I be safe?" Albert already knew...he was being lead to the guillotine!!! May ALL those involved in this tragedy...never, ever REST!

[Mwalimu Catherine @Cgatheru]

@wmnjoya Ditto! Pathways are EVIL!!! Children's lives and destinies are being sacrificed in this evil alter...

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Now, Kenyans, this obsession with KCSE is what I was trying to explain is the problem with Kenyan education when we were swooning over CBC.

In my post, I talked of KCSE very specifically, and people assumed that I'm saying language doesnt matter in law. No. I was saying that KCSE should not be the only certification that matters. Right now, if I scored a C in English, even if I was to go and train as an English teacher in England, return here, and apply to be a teacher in TSC and or to join the legal profession, and maybe I'm even 35 years old, so I've been working with English for at least 17 years since high school, some of those years in England itself, I would not be allowed to do law or high school teaching, on the basis of my KCSE language grades.

I know someone who speaks Kiswahili very well. But she got a C in Kiswahili. She did B.Ed in Kiswahili, and TSC refused to employ her on the basis of her KCSE grade. She went to Tanzania, U of Dar no less, did a masters in Kiswahili. TSC still refused. They told her her only hope was to become a primary school teacher.

Right now, you people oohed and aaahed about music being taught in CBC. Do you know that we don't have enough music teachers? After music was removed as a compulsory subject in KCSE, very few students did Music up to form 4. Meaning that today, many people doing Music in university are doing so on certificates in Music from universities or ABRSM. They can be doing private teaching at the conservertoire, touring the world because of their music, but TSC will NOT employ them, because they didn't do music in KCSE. And there's a shortage of Music teachers.

So, when you people were shouting with @KICDKenya that the problem with 8.4.4 was exam obsession, I told you no. The problem is our institutions.

1) our institutions obsess with holding people to their grades when they were 17 years old, sometimes even 30 years after high school. I know of a PhD holder who was not employed as a lecturer because of his A level grade. In 2012, thereforeabouts. The man had even published post-PhD, was over 40 years old, but no.

2) what we need is the recognition of work/lived experience. But again, your precious Fred Matiangi even wanted to CANCEL degrees earned by people who entered university doing diplomas. Yet the top professors of the 70s, the ones we still quote today, started as S1 teachers. Ali Mazrui was one of them.

I said the solution to exam obsession was to ease the pressure of certification, but almost all Kenyans joined the bandwagon of saying the problem is the curriculum. And now, let me just remind you, CBC is worse that KCSE on that count alone. Children will be blocked from entering professions based on their pathways, not just their results.

The real problem of Kenya is our class snobbery. We think that people must follow a certain path, and must be punished for ever and ever for the grades they scored when they were 17. And then you self-righteously wonder why students burn dorms when mock exams are round the corner.

We are not British aristocrats. WE ARE NOT BRITISH ARISTOCRATS. We need to stop with this class, snobbery, pedigree nonsense in the work space. It is encouraging mediocrity, corruption and most of all, exclusion of people who would otherwise be gainfully employed.

And ban the CBC pathways. Pathways are evil.

#GatekeepingKE
#CBCisheretostay

[🇰🇪 James WaNjeri @JamesKWaNjeri]

If the rest of Kenya can learn anything from Ol Kalou, perhaps it is the centrality of women in the struggle for change. Without women taking a central role in pushing for change, nothing will happen. You can’t win without women.

[Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist @mohammedhersi]

What a talent.

Hats off to this guy...amazing at the same time the message is a sad one.

Please us follow his Tik Tok channel and support him......https://t.co/PHZxj4ahIT

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

Dear Government bloggers,
Where exactly are you today? Ama you’re doubling up as goons? Really waiting for your posts on Ol Kalou. May this be a reminder that THE PEOPLE SHALL!!
WANTAM🚶🏿‍♀️🚶🏿‍♀️

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Goons are dangerous people, but good Kenyans are the majority, and we cannot allow the country to slide back into anarchy simply because police and government are now working with hired thugs, so Kenyans must take charge and deal with the less than one percent behaving as though they own the country. We cant be crying every day like helpless kids

[Joseph Gitahi @GitahiJcgitahi]

I agree with Chege Majuice tomorrow by election will be the most consequential decision and signal as we heard to election.
Olkalou people must not vote yellow 🟡.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

🚨BREAKING: IEBC has entered into official gaslighting mode.

​According to IEBC Commissioner Ann Nderitu, distributing government mattresses, gas cylinders, and "goodies" in Ol Kalou days before a by-election isn't automatically "bribery."

​This is the peak of intellectual dishonesty.

​Are we to believe that after 4 years of policy amnesia, the state suddenly had a nocturnal epiphany to combat Nyandarua's cold exactly 72 hours before a vote?

This isn’t philanthropy; it’s a transaction. It is state-sanctioned voter manipulation masquerading as "development."

​George Orwell warned us about this in Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

The IEBC has officially entered the business of rewriting the rules of the game mid-play to cover up for the rule-breakers.

​To say this isn't bribery is like a police officer catching a thief with their hand in your pocket and telling you, "Relax, he’s just keeping your wallet warm."

​If the referee is already gaslighting the voters before the first whistle, how can we trust them to count the score?

​IEBC, stop insulting our intelligence. If you cannot defend electoral integrity, stop pretending to be impartial.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Any party which wants to offer political change must have this agenda on their manifesto:

Retraining the civil service out of its colonial master-slave mentality.

Until that is sorted, Kenya government will continue punishing Kenyans for having skills and will constantly block Kenyans from building the country with their brains and muscles. Our civil servants and politicians believe what their British godfathers teach them, which is that work is demeaning and that economic growth comes from policy and handouts. They don't want us to work.

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga started that project of retraining civil servants with the Lumumba Institute. Pio Gama Pinto was assassinated to stop it, and Jaramogi was thrown into the political freezer for imagining it. Together with Bildad Kaggia. CORD put this issue in their manifesto in 2013. We must revive that agenda.

We have 1 million people in the civil service and another almost 2000 people in the legislature who are parasitic. They are a threat to the health of the Kenyan body politic.

[AbbieZuena @abbiezuena]

Remember this young woman from Taita Taveta? Who went viral for introducing herself the Sifuna Way?

Her name is Josephine and she has crafted a new introduction for our 6th for our Taita Taveta rally happening this Saturday the 18th of July 2026.

#SisiNdioSifuna #LindaMwananchi

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

A beautiful cultural exchange as Baylor University choir students from Texas sing timeless Kenyan gospel classics during their recent mission in Kenya.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

"Wantam is not your personal initiative; it's the voice of the people." A number of Kenyan youths have come out to call out former DP Rigathi Gachagua for trying to gatekeep the Wantam movement, saying it is a national initiative and not his own!

[bryomuch @bryomuch]

@MutemiWaKiama ... #rutoMustGo ...

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

Kenyan tech innovator Miringa is testing his new vote-tallying system during tomorrow's by-election in Ol Kalou. The trial aims to prevent vote rigging and prepare the system for the 2027 General Election.

(🎥 Courtesy of @miringa_ke )

[Wanjira Maina @LegisLady]

We haven’t grasped how deep the internal security crisis in the country is because we use words that mask its intensity, such as “goons” and “insecurity”.
So what if we called it what it is, “state-organized armed militia”, “state-funded terrorism”, “state-sponsored violence”?

[Alfayaz 11 @Alfayaz11]

I changed our home security guards over a year ago and specifically asked the company to give us female guards. Some at home looked at me like, “Are you sure?” I don’t regret that decision one bit, and today we are extremely happy with both of them!

let me tell you, these ladies are tougher and stricter than their male compatriots… these women don’t play!

Ladies hoiyee! 🫡

[Mwalimu Catherine @Cgatheru]

@Creativegenieke @Wordslinger__ @waweru Absolutely!!! Public health facilities need to be well resourced for everyone's good.