set in a mining town in west virginia, matewan (1987) follows a company’s attempt to break a miners strike by pitting african american and immigrant workers against one another. as the story unfolds it reveals how these divisions are manufactured into a story of class solidarity.
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So the matatu strike paralysed the country for two days, people died, businesses burned, and the masterstroke solution from the government was to sit down with matatu owners in Mombasa and cut a deal. Crisis solved. Everyone goes home happy except Kenyans.
Kenyans still woke up the next morning paying Sh140 from Kayole to town. The boda boda rider still could not save a shilling after fuelling. The mother travelling from Githunguri was and is still paying Sh150 one way, praying she makes enough sales to afford the return trip. But the matatus were moving again, so apparently that counts as governance.
Here is the fundamental problem the Kenya Kwanza administration refuses to understand. The matatu industry is not the crisis. It is a symptom. When you negotiate with matatu owners while leaving fuel prices untouched, you have treated a broken leg with a bandage. The patient is still limping. You have just made the limp quieter.
The real crisis is at the pump. At Sh214 for petrol and Sh242 for diesel, every Kenyan who buys food, uses transport, runs a business or sends a child to school is being squeezed every single day. No handshake at State House Mombasa changes those numbers. No meeting with industry leaders puts money back in a hawker's pocket.
This is the regime's favourite trick. Negotiate with the loudest voice in the room, declare victory and hope everyone else forgets they are still suffering. The matatu owners got a seat at the table. Ordinary Kenyans got a promise for June or July.
A crisis that hits everyone cannot be solved by cutting deals with one sector. That is not crisis management. That is crisis postponement, and Kenyans are paying full price for it.
Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.
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The World Bank just funded a BIOBANK in Kenya capable of freezing and archiving 10,000 biological samples indefinitely.
Not for transfusion. For RESEARCH.
That biobank stores:
• Your DNA
• Your disease markers
• Your antibody profile
• Your biological identity
Forever. For purposes haujui, funded by Washington. The biobank doesn't expire.
Niaje half of Laikipia county is owned by 21 foreign families?
Underneath that same Laikipia kuna gold, nickel, chromite, copper, iron, titanium, and rare earth elements.
Na tuko sawa tu?
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