Folks, "God willing" is not a policy posture for any government. This is not a statement of faith or humility, it is scapegoating and abdicating responsibility.
The media is gaslighting us and undermining revolution. We are not going to get far saying the government is rotten. We've been saying it since the 1890s when Koitalel arap Samoei and Kolitieng Atol were leading resistance in Nandi and Turkana land. We've been saying this for over a century. What we need to understand is WHY GoK is rotten, and WHY it is incapable of doing what we expect it to do. Maybe simply learning the history of our resistance would accomplish more than what the media is telling us.
Kenyans will tell you it's a problem of school safety;"we need stringent safety measures in school." I've just coined a term for that,an Important-Useless detail. A genuine concern that i consider useless in the broader scheme of things. They'll do anything to avoid philosophy.
Kenyans treat children going to school like Abraham taking his son to chop him up as a sacrifice. They hope that when they reach the top of the mountain, they'll hear a voice from the government telling that school isn't worth crushing their child's dignity and making them sleep in fire hazard dorms. But the state isn't that god. It's going to let us crush our children's dignity in the name of education. That's the point. And we cannot fix this through commissions and more professors speaking through their noses about nothing. We have to do it politically, through making specific demands about THE ECONOMY so that schooling isn't the lifeline for survival.
Kenya's economy is not productive. It's bureaucratic. It is not normal to have an economy where education is a sacred ticket. It should be WORK and ideas running the economy. Not certificates.
But we never got out of this certificate-dependent economy because of the Africanization policies we had at independence. Because Kenya had settlers, we had more civil servants and therefore more posts to Africanize. So succeeding in life meant replacing a mzungu, earning his salary, living in his house and using your salary for loans to start side hustles, and using government privilege for tax evasion and tenders. In other words, education certificates became the ticket to enter government and entering government became the ticket to wealth.
Worse, the settler economy meant that Africans production was suppressed. At independence, Africans were doing on 6% of agricultural production. In Uganda, it was 63%.
And what wealth can government people create? None. They don't produce. They can only do side hustles, theft of public resources and fake monopolies. They can't invent anything. As long as the state remains the bank funding hustles and tenders, the school system is going to remain a death trap and a soul crusher for our children.
That's what I'll be saying at @drunkenlectures next week.
So there, @SokoAnalyst is the explanation for why GoK hates MSMEs, using policy to supposedly help MSMEs but in reality smothering them to death. Civil servants actually think they know better than the people doing the daily work of running the business.
#tyrannyof3pc
#MaishaKazini
@m_ogada Even as we rightfully call out the bullshit that is Africa Forward nonsense,another group of spiritual paupers that will be the end of us are these gender war people. They tell us that women are supposed to be this way,men another way. ♀️are affected by climate change...
Like a delusional Roman elite in 476CE shouting how Rome is still strong and powerful as barbarians and Germanic warlords are matching into the palace dethroning their teenage emperor, Romulus II.
It would be one thing if the French empire was a rising empire. But the fact that the Kenyan state is cowtowing to an empire that too anyone with brain cells marginally more effective than that of cells in a cabbage, is an old rotting dying empire.
Kenya is truly an amazing country. Never has a (purportedly) sovereign nation taken such pride, not in just being an imperial outpost, but being a regent of an Empire in which they have zero stake other than the emperor's avuncular gaze. What a time to be alive.
Zero moral compass. We are so concerned with the amount of fees at Alliance, that we fail to notic that part of it is actually budgeted to bribe examiners. A so-called "top performing" school 👀
Gaucho does harm, but he's on the board where workers have sworn to do no harm. That's a philosophical difference, not a technical one. What kind of "do no harm" can the man possibly understand?
And this is why I tell Kenyans that the idea of "implementation" is a fallacy. You cannot implement what your life, work and ideas contradict.
Check my interview on the same.
https://t.co/B94tCRzmHY
@wmnjoya I don't know why Kenyans pretend to be angry at a goon mobiliser with no medical expertise being appointed to the board of a hospital,si I thought they wanted praktikooo. Not thioriiiii. Mobilising goons is praktikooo,medical expertise is thioriiiii.
@wmnjoya@HonOmanyo It also assumes that the poor and the rich go to the same school; the few lucky kids on scholarship to posh international schools are only there on the benevolence of some billionaire which by itself is problematic.
School uniforms promote equality and protect learners from unnecessary pressure. In a country with a wide gap between rich and poor, removing uniforms would only create distractions, division and lower self esteem among Children. Let's focus on learning.
@wmnjoya Ideas are work,and we know Kenyans hate work. If it was Kenya,the aerospace engineers that built the missiles harassing the American empire would have been absorbed into high paying useless gava jobs. They'd be inspecting schools for litter like Magoha.