omasire

Hoi of House Polloi, the Billionth of His Name

[omasire @omasire_]

The one thing we need to do is demystify policy. You don’t need a degree or PhD to make policy. Policies are decisions we make for our good, for our future - Arthur Muliro #DisruptDigital #DigitalAfrica

@nxtgenforesight @SOIFutures

[Mzalendo Mūtemi wa Kīama @MutemiWaKiama]

Grace Akinyi on #CBC again...

After my last post on CBC, Kenyans rushed to remind me on the comments that,

"...the west is doing better because their students specialise early, get skills early and become productive"

.....sounds convincing...but also largely nonsense...!

Because some of us have had the privilege of schooling both in Kenya and abroad, it might be important to interrupt that fantasy with some uncomfortable truths.

I did my Masters at the best University in Scotland. Elite by standard.

In my entire class, I did not see a single Scottish national.

Ask your friends studying across the UK and they'll report the same pattern.

Classrooms in western countries are overwhelmingly international. Locals? Not so many.

And no... this is not because British students are fully skilled by their teenage years.

It is because British youth do not need more education to survive.

In the UK, you can decide to take an apprenticeship, opt out of undergraduate degree, switch careers, or simply work with little experience and no education.

Failure is survivable because the system cushions it.

In this context, early specialisation works because it sits on top of functioning institutions, real labour markets, and a system that forgives mistakes.

.... the early skills arguments gets worse here....

Even in sectors that literally keep people alive like healthcare, the UK does not rely on skills produced solely by its own education system.

According to a recent General Medical Council Workforce report, around 42% of doctors working in the UK were trained outside the country.

Yaani, almost half the experts keeping people alive in the UK were taught in curricular that resemble something like 8-4-4

What does that mean?

It means that even with early specialisation, even with elite universities, the UK cannot meet its own critical skill needs domestically.

If early specialisation was the secret ingredient, the UK would not need a Pakistani, Indian or Nigerian doctors to keep its health systems functioning. It would simply produce locally.

Now let's get back home.

Kenya.

I was told that we ain't doing well because we lack skills.

And honestly that would be a very funny joke if it wasn't insulting.

I read it felt hot in my stomach. That Kenyans lack skills because of 8-4-4 curriculum ?

The joke...or the nonsense... or the nonsense on the joke?

Why are we afraid of saying the truth....

That we are not doing well because our skills are trapped in a broken political economy....

Why do you keep on insisting that we are suffering because 8-4-4 did not produce enough skills?

And yet and yet and yet.....

Our engineers are riding bodas. Our trained teachers are sitting at home. Our footballers are sleeping hungry?

Why are you insulting us...?

We see what you people are trying to do with this your CBC.

You want to shift responsibility from the state to the child.

If they fail, they will be told that they chose a wrong pathway.

If they are poor, they will be told that they don't have the right competencies.

And just like that, the leadership will walk away untouched.

Yet, our employment crisis as a country is a governance feature.

Shida iko huko juu kwa Githinji. Sio kwa watoto wetu.

We can redesign the curriculum every five years, but until we redesign politics, jobs will remain an elective.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

@otienowill We're voting for Kenya's got talent. Kenyan elections are a popularity contest. It's not about politics.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

May we never forget.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

[🇰🇪 @6_size]

Tough out there

How can we spin this on Ruto?

[Abier @abierkhatib]

This is 1 of today’s must-watch: Chris Sidoti, co-author of the UN Gaza genocide report, shares his take on Israel’s response…
chef’s kiss.

[Mzalendo Mūtemi wa Kīama @MutemiWaKiama]

Narratives shape our every day thinking. Our politicians are masters at shaping narratives.
#PoliticalEducationKE

[Rapcha The Sayantist @IAMRAPCHA]

The saddest thing about Kenya is, everyone knows this is a clown 🤡 who's only using his position to prepare for elections, but they'll elect him expecting him to bring developments

It's like a curse

[abhay @thexkiddd__]

Lowkey hoping these last 4 months turn things around.

[gathara @gathara]

So the Jews were chosen by the deity they invented? This is not unique. Kikuyus think Ngai chose them, Maasai believe Enkai gave them all the cows on the planet, Christians think only they get to go to heaven. There is nothing uniquely Jewish about delusions of grandeur.

[omasire @omasire_]

@Nyamisa_Chela That's not one to cite. Shida zetu zilianza naye

[omasire @omasire_]

@scheafferoo attempted this on dustbins at Matasia SDA circa 2019

[RUPHA_Kenya @RuphaKenya]

@_shakenya owes all Kenyan hospitals Kshs 43B in unpaid claims since October 2024. NHIF arrears are at Kshs 32B. SHA has surpassed NHIF in bad debts within a short 9 months. They can blame hospitals all they want but the truth is SHA was not even a good idea executed badly, no, it was simply an idea by bad people. The health sector is Kshs 75B in debt, no amount of gerrymandering on claims by @HonAdenDuale will make Ksh 75B disappear. Within the next 4 weeks by 23rd September hospitals will stop covering the Emperors nakedness.

[Paul Muite SC @Paul_Muite]

44.8 B collected on E-Citizen untraceable(we're encouraged on daily basis from the highest office to use E-Citizen);14.5B tender to Gieseke-Devriet,a German Co to print new currency issued by CBK in violation of all Laws. Any need for a Conclave on CORRUPTION, murdering Gen-Zees?

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

In 2019, a United Nations project promised 100,000 affordable homes in Kenya. It delivered none.
https://t.co/THWyPZ6Ko0

[Sunny Bindra @sunnysunwords]

If you let sugar-voiced people-pleasers be the most popular members of society, what will happen to those with actual depth of thought and insight?
My new Signal https://t.co/pgGUImsXaX

[dennis ombachi OLY @ombachi13]

Spicy Grilled Peri Peri Chicken, Chinsaga & Ugali with @dkmaraga a man who stands for something foreign to most leaders. INTEGRITY & FIDELITY TO THE CONSTITUTION.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Dear Gen X's, civil servants (@NACADAKenya is the latest culprit) journalists (especially at @ntvkenya) and Matiang'i:

There's no country you're fixing please. The country is WE THE PEOPLE, and there's nothing wrong with us. We're creative, hardworking and patriotic. The problem is the colonial state. So can you stop writing prohibition laws in the name of saving our children, misnaming what radical politics is, telling us utasafisha serekali... you're missing the point.

[Jike Jeuri @izkctm]

@creativitydefke https://t.co/o0BFvxFCKC