"KENYA'S PROBLEM IS THAT IT STILL RELIES ON THE WEST FOR IDEAS"
For Kenyan academic Wandia Njoya (@wmnjoya on X), Kenya's crisis is not a lack of policies, funding, or development plans, it is a crisis of thought.
She argues that too often, Kenyan elites look to West; the World Bank, OECD, UN agencies, and foreign policy papers for answers, treating development as a technical problem of implementation rather than asking deeper questions about power, institutions, and sovereignty.
She questions why Kenyan elites are still searching for solutions in the very systems that helped shape their problems? While public debate focuses on fixing individual problems, Njoya believes Kenya must confront the bigger question: what ideas are shaping the system itself?
Her argument is simple: no nation can build its future by outsourcing its thinking, especially not thinking from collapsing Western hegemons.
Finally, she argues that Kenya's real curse is actually having a mass Western-educated middle class pushing this agenda of dependence on the foreigners vs a Pan-African local model such as that demonstrated by Captain Ibrahim Traore in Burkina Faso.
Do you think Kenya's middle class is the problem? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
I told you that all those politicians masquerading as opposition are what we call POTEMKIN or ASTROTURF OPPOSITION.
But you insulted me.
Do you now see the game clearly?
They aimed to discredit genuine clamour for economic transformation, scatter powerful voices and legitimize Government's economic agenda.
This is their mechanism of existence:
INFILTRATION
Movements and social media platforms were quietly infiltrated by individuals loyal to the establishment. These individuals mismanaged the platforms to discredit social media voices in the eyes of the public.
"You have been paid."
"You are tutam."
"How much have they paid you to post this?"
These infiltrators also steered the platforms away from achieving the core goals by creating unnecessary slogans.
"Wantam"
"Tutam"
Example: X users, X posts, X spaces.
CO-OPTATION AND COMPROMISE
Leaders of a genuine grassroots movement are persuaded, bribed, or pressured into watering down their demands.
They are given lucrative platform access and media coverage but are kept on a tight leash, transforming radical critics into moderate voices that the establishment can comfortably manage.
Example: ODM and BREAD-BASED ESTABLISHMENT
STATE-MANUFACTURED OPPOSITION
The state actively creates, funds, and legitimates smaller political parties. These groups appear to challenge the government on minor, superficial issues, but they never truly threaten the ruling regime's control over the state.
"Please don't protest. We shall defeat him on election day. He has no numbers."
Sheep: "Yeees!"
Example DCP and LINDA MWANANCHI
The state played its cards strategically and outmanoeuvred all of us.
Now, we are back to:
"You are a Kikuyu."
"You are a Kalenjin."
"You are a Luo."
Don't under-estimate the STATE.
Anyway, one day, GRASS WILL GROW.
When I started teaching post-PhD, I wondered why people like Matiangi and the media used to hate literature taught in schools. Matiang'i did his PhD in literature, media people write for a living. Their hatred for literature made no sense.
I discovered the reason the day that a financial investment company started advertising a course "business storytelling". Capitalism doesn't want us learning about how stories work because stories are its primary weapon. That's why literature is now an optional pathway in CBC, unlike in 8.4.4. where it was a compulsory subject. The system has to limit the number of people who understand how stories work, and reduce the majority to mere consumers of stories.
#CBCisheretostay
KTN has chosen to do the Lord's work once again exposing Ruto's LIES after lies with his famous phrase "In Six Months"
More recently with Tharaka Nithi Bridge. Kindiki amepokea Stray moto hapo. Full video
Courtsey of KTN News Kenya
" Kenya is Africa's BS powerhouse, when you want to do any Questionable and Unethical thing bring it to Kenya"- Dr. Modercai Odada with a sharp modern day decolonial critique!
Guys this is a MUST WATCH.
This is a 1 hour documentary from Al Jazeera about israel’s horrifying crimes against the Palestinians.
Nobody deserves treatment like this!
The plan is to make Kenya a failed state;
1. Destroy the middle class.
-shut down manufacturing companies.
-overtax the working class.
-inflation.
-hike the cost of living.
-no increments on salaries.
2. Turn everyone into a beggar.
-introduce digital currency.
-government as biggest employer.
-destroy informal sector.
-divest manufacturing.
-over regulate/ over tax small and medium enterprises.
-subsidise corporates.
3. Privatize land.
-give access to farmland to global agricultural multinationals.
-bills that take away land sovereignty from the citizen.
-introduce a land tax.
-create squatters.
4. Control housing.
-15 minute cities.
-over surveillance.
-avoidable housing for those who can't afford a tax on their freehold land.
5. Destroy seed sovereignty.
-introduce only patented seedlings.
-prioritise GMOs and hybrids.
-demonize indigenous seeds and organic farming.
-pass bills that curtail the growth and aspirations of small scale farmers.
6. Privatize water.
-force a people to need a license to harvest rain water, rivers or dams.
-overtax boreholes so only the rich can afford them.
-give global beverage and bottled water companies uninhibited access.
7. Enslave the nation in debt.
-borrow from global banking cartels;
IMF, World Bank, China EXIM Bank, European Central Bank, African Development Bank...
-squander taxes.
-loot borrowed money.
-use national assets as colateral for debt.
8. Destroy Sovereignty.
-allow foreign military bases in your land.
-allow foreign governments say so in your socio-economic/ political issues.
-allow biological weapons labs.
-allow for looting of mineral wealth and natural resources.
9. Create an illiterate populace.
-remove free education.
-introduce a new education model without proper planning.
-allow globalist entities to fund your curriculum.
-dumb down the learners.
-divest/privatise higher learning institutions.
10. Devalue the currency.
-print fiat without regulation.
-inflation.
-loot gold and silver reserves.
-allow global banking cartels to set fiscal policy.
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