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Human Rights differentiates us from the jungle! Civilisation invented in Africa the moment our ancestors took care of each other!

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@KagutaMuseveni Nani alikuambia uzimie watu internet! You see now u didn't know what was going on kwa jirani! Wacha hizo!

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@HonMosiria @HonMosiria Nairobi City County hawajawafunza Child Safeguarding! Mama anaweka picha wa mtoto na wewe kana afisa wa County unasambaza bila kuficha uso wa mtoto

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@Seraphinaf5 71

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@MoraraKebaso Familiarize yourself with how GoK operates and utaelewa how Boss ako ndaaani!

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@MachariaNjeru The kind of stuff I love reading! Aki ya mungu its only politicians who mess us! Wonder how and why we always allow it..

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@Asamoh_ Recruitment drives sometimes target like 5 recruits per sub county, getting 7 in one family stinks integrity issues

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@georgediano Huyu most def aliambiwa awe visible in politics kuna 16 women slots za nomination bungeni. Wait and see

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

In my address titled "The Political Economy of Obedience," delivered last month at the Josef Korbel School of Global Affairs at the University of Denver, I identified five key mechanisms through which African populations have been trained into political compliance. I am sharing a summary here because they explain precisely what we are watching play out in real time every day on this continent.

The first is colonial education. The curriculum inherited from the French, the Brits or the Portugese administration was not designed to produce critical citizens. It was designed to produce a particular kind of political subject. one who understood authority as something to be respected rather than questioned, and who experienced his own political traditions as a source of shame rather than institutional possibility. As I said in Denver, the most effective political prisons are not made of concrete. They are made of curriculum. The Togolese school I attended taught us the genealogy of French kings with more precision than the history of the governance systems that predated French colonial presence on our territory.

The second is the economy of obedience itself. Authoritarian systems endure not primarily through permanent terror but because they structure the relationship between political compliance and material survival so that obedience becomes, for most people most of the time, the rational choice. Access to employment, scholarships, market licenses, import authorizations, health clinic access: none of it politically neutral, all of it conditioned on loyalty. People in these systems do not collaborate with power because they are morally deficient. They collaborate because the scaffolding of their daily lives has been designed to make non-collaboration economically catastrophic.

The third is the family as a site of control. In conditions of economic precarity, the individual who considers a dissident act must calculate not only her own risk but the risk she imposes on her parents, her siblings, her children, her cousins etc. I have watched people of intelligence and moral clarity retreat from political engagement not because they were afraid for themselves but because they could not justify the devastating exposure their activism would bring to their families. The authoritarian state does not need to threaten everyone. It only needs to ensure that the threat to one is visible and comprehensible to all.

The fourth is religion. In many parts of Africa, religious institutions have been deployed, not by their most honest practitioners but by their most politically convenient ones, to transmit a theology of earthly resignation and otherworldly reward that discourages political engagement. The pastoral instruction to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's sits very comfortably with the interests of Caesars who have no intention of rendering anything to anyone. Liberation theology, which in Latin America produced an extraordinary tradition of religiously grounded political resistance, has had a far more contested reception in much of African Christianity and Islam, partly because of the direct entanglement of many religious institutions with state power, which has made spiritual authority and political compliance structurally allied.

The fifth is media. In authoritarian African contexts, state and privately owned media aligned with power do not typically practice crude propaganda. They practice something more subtle and more durable: the selection of what is visible and what is invisible; the framing of social problems as natural phenomena rather than political choices; and the treatment of opposition voices as marginal or foreign-funded. The film industry participates in this discipline in its own way, through the systematic promotion of narratives that depict poverty and wealth as conditions of fate or personal failure, stories in which the distance between the poor and the rich has everything to do with luck, talent or divine favour and nothing to do with power, policy or the deliberate engineering of inequality.

The cumulative effect, over decades, is a population whose political imagination has been narrowed to the point where alternatives are genuinely difficult to conceive, not because the alternatives do not exist, but because the political ecosystem has ensured they remain invisible.

These are the operating manual of authoritarian systems on this continent. And authoritarianism today is not limited to regimes with a known dictator who has held power for decades. It extends equally to regimes that perform a change of leadership through placebo elections conducted every four to five years, producing a new face every eight to ten years while the same system of impunity, patronage and repression remains structurally intact.

I would argue that these are in fact the more dangerous form of authoritarianism because their citizens are deceived into believing they are living under a democracy when they are in reality governed by plutocrats. The citizen under an obvious dictatorship at least knows what he is fighting. The citizen under a rotating plutocracy has been convinced there is nothing to fight at all. He votes, he watches a new face take the oath, and he mistakes the performance of transition for the substance of change. He ends up with no voice, no justice, no agency, and worse, no drive to fight for his own dignity. For one can only fight for liberation after acknowledging one's condition of oppression.

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@C_NyaKundiH Its no longer business as usual! Kwa internet, Airtel has a 5G gadget providing smooth streams at 2k month 15mbs but Saf stuck with 4k for 20mbs. Kuhama na kuhamia...

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@i_mentat @MativoMJohn @MaiconCarioca54 @KeNHAKenya This is approved based on my capacity as a tax payer! Our Kamba politicians do not know how to negotiate for development! Story za state house huwa photo sessions mainly!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad….such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000 mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation.

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@Horlheryinkar Ladies, if ur bf being kept! Not the other way round! Any man worth his balls won't dare share spaces with other bros esp where his chic pops up once in a while!

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@kilundeezy Boss, there is a reason why the say the Presidency is the highest office in any country.

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@HonMosiria Wakenya hawapendi chocha! Mnatuenjoy Singapore even before we recover huyu msee anaangusha 6 pack fake ndio attention iwe kwake and not kwa Mbavu Destroyer!

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@susankihika Imagine a being a Billionaire and you do not need to respond to such attacks since your wife does the necessary ukiwa kwa yatch huko mahali network hamna! Some men wako na bahati!

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@ItsAmahAdoma Women have no idea what men go thro' to put a bread on that table!

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@orwaokinda_1 @MikeSonko When should one apologize? When they have 'righted' you?

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@ignyharaz2 Machakos University has over 40 acres donated by the county and yet to be developed.

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@BillowKerrow The issue is not admission of best learners but what leaders from some of these regions are doing with development funds! Respond to this first.