mwaura

[•¿bisa?• @obohemmaa]

or are severed from the queer lineages that precede us

[•¿bisa?• @obohemmaa]

just because (some) queer africans as a result of ‘globalisation’ and imperialism map our identities onto western ideas of sexuality and gender to be understood and for our fight for liberation to be visible does not mean that we reject our indigeneity/connection to our cultures-

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

Nani, that's called race science. And you're not making the argument you think you're making. Because it begs the question: what, in your esteemed opinion makes them Kenyans act like that? Give me a non-racist answer quickly. Go on...I'm waiting. Yeah, that's what I thought.

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

You can be annoyed by 'social ills' (whatever that means cause apparently these social ills have nothing to do with that same society's structures and systems, huh?) without starting to insist that Kenyans are uniquely, inherently, and essentially malformed.

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

Have you seen the roads in Colombia? The driving in Peru? Are the factories in Vladivostok dumping waste in the port run by Kenyans? Do Kenyans run to Kampala and Lagos every morning to overlap on their roads? Is it Kenyans littering in Croydon?

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

Atlanta and Florida drivers are some of the most dangerous motorists I've ever met in my life (and I learned to drive in Eastlands) Are all the drivers who overlap, drive on oncoming lanes, and even kill people on the road in the American south Kenyans?

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

New York City is famous for smelling like pee and being full of trash in the streets. As is London. Is it Kenyans pissing in the Ganges? Weren't the French threatening to poop in the Seine last year? All these people, they're Kenyans, sindio?

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

These things that make you lift your metaphorical (and literal-given the chance) pitchforks happen everywhere in the world and in every society for a specific set of reasons that have been observed, studied, and explained.

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

You're saying there is something wrong with a people, perhaps even at the Biological level. It's why these arguments constantly veer into eugenics and population control territory very quickly, within around three lines of conversation. That is not a bug, it's a fucking feature.

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

The problem with this kind of thinking is it insists that Kenyans are the only people who do this stuff and then moves on to argue that because of that, there is something inherently and essentially wrong with Kenyans as People (capital P). That argument is fundamentally racist.

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

@JullietNjeri It is racist to speak about it as if it is inherent. Rhetoric matters. We are not saying people should pee under bridges please. We are saying to stop tagging it to an inherent 'Kenyanness' when it demonstrably isn't. It is a bad thing to argue that people are essentially flawed.

[mwaura @mwaura___]

@wairi_g yes😅

[mwaura @mwaura___]

hear me out: you are not the first one to say such things about Kenyans. white eugenicist colonisers said/say the same things about YOU (you’re not special) and your ancestors. and the reason as to why YOU parrot the same racist rhetoric as them is… wait for it…STRUCTURAL :(

[Charity @tiny_charoh]

The ‘usikojoe hapa’ and ‘don’t dump’ signs having to be erected but you will still see people doing that stuff under the signs 😂

[Mumbi. @miss_mumbzk]

We don’t trust the police with anything - not cars, not protesters - but as soon as it gets to sexual violence it’s “go report”.

:(

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The doctors wanted her as PS because of the work she did in prisons.

The PS is incompetent even as an English graduate, not just because she didn't study medicine. Someone saying "let's not politicize matters" didn't understand her theory class. The decision of the US to bring ebola here was political. So the PS should not be telling us not to politicize matters. The matters are already political.

Two, Oluga is pushing the same agenda and he has a masters in medicine. Is he competent, then?

Kenya's problem is political education, not technical expertise. Educated Kenyans are gloriously ignorant and proudly lacking in what Yvonne Owuor called (yes, she's a writer) "historical intelligence." It's a problem across all professions in Kenya. The ebola quarantine in health is conservation in ecology and CBC in education. Educated Kenyans, especially in the government, lack philosophical knowledge and are competently pro-imperialist.

The tragedy here is that Jaramogi spotted the problem with the civil service in 1965 when he and other politicians started the Lumumba Institute. It was quickly shut down through the scheming of Mboya and the Americans. That's how we got Sessional Paper no 10 of 1965 to make Kenyan civil servants solidly capitalist. Capitalism is solidly anti-intellectual. That's why the civil servants have no clue about the geopolitical arena they're operating in.

[A Master of Arts 🪂 @Ani_Kayode]

I’m glad to announce that And Then He Sang a Lullaby will be released in East African this month. Here is what the East African edition will look like. Happy Pride month.

[Sideways for attention,long way for results @Dialmaterialist]

Are we going to fill up our jails with children or are we finally going to admit that the children are victims of a violent colonial system that needs to be dismantled?

[Mumbi. @miss_mumbzk]

Never while men are alive.

[Justice Okai-Allotey #QueerGhanaiansLivesMatter @Owula_Kpakpo]

How the US Christian right built an interfaith coalition against LGBTQ rights in Africa: https://t.co/LOQRPznkmp

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

I love the open disdain. I genuinely do. It is beautiful to behold. It shows what Politics (with a capital ‘P’) makes possible.

One reads about it in books and so forth. “Let Them Eat Cake” et cetera. But to behold it too, my God!