The colonial police the British left us with wasn't enough? Up to the 1970s, the Nairobi police commissioner was a colonial officer, Myles Oswald. Ian Henderson, the guy who hunted down Kimathi, remained in charge of the Nyeri Police until Jaramogi deported him.
The CS just needs to pick a history book and save the tax payer the plane tickets and per diems.
Capitalism's greatest success has been complicating simple concepts of life & community to make them seem unapproachable, hence forcing us to defer to it's trained evangelists.
Suffocating our ability to imagine better for ourselves is their principle task, conscious or otherwise
"You want to give us independence, but retain ownership of our resources?? Lete kitu ya macho". It disturbs me that in 2026, some Kenyans STILL believe that the brokers who went to Lancaster house were agitatung for our freedom 🙄🙄
Now we need to start talking about the middle class as a cult. All the deals that are selling Kenyans to colonialists are being agreed on by civil servants, journalists, professors and other professionals, especially in NGOs. But in Kenya, they remain a class that dares not speak its name.
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Taylor Durden -Say it...................
The narrator - because we're ONE. 💯.
Suppressing your desires is numbing, but letting them rule you is chaotic
Acknowledge your darker impulses to understand them, rather than letting them build into a "Tyler" that takes over.
I am sympathetic with this position. However, I don't think the solution is as simple as qualified people stepping up.
The problem is the state. The state is a Eurocentric jalopy that was left behind by colonialists who told us that the jalopy they were giving us was a Ferrari that could win an F1. That's the problem.
Even if you put Lewis Hamilton in that jalopy, in the name of skilled and committed people stepping up, the jalopy cannot be driven like a formula 1 car. Just like we need a new and suitable car for the race track, we need a new mode of governance. We will get nowhere with the contraption the British gave us at independence. So please, Kenya middle class, don't flatter yourselves. The western education that handicapped our minds cannot fix the problem. Our thinking is actually part of the problem. Africa doesn't need heroes, and you're probably not it. We need revolution.
Additions…kuna gazebo open but we added another closed one juu ya rains…look like w man cave..ni mahali ya kuchill,kuota moto,had a meat preparation area na sink..
Generative AI is a Psy-op to Keep the Poor Dumb
The growing mass reliance on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not accidental. It is a deliberate effort driven by a few wealthy Silicon Valley capitalists to commoditise “intelligence” and convince people to adopt it in exchange for their real-life problem-solving abilities, critical thinking and cultural authenticity. The ultimate goal as always, is to enrich this already super-wealthy tech elite at the expense of everyone else.
Tellingly, while these billionaire tech oligarchs spend billions to convince consumers to adopt and become dependent on “AI” solutions, they are also doubling down on the primacy of human intelligence in their elite bubbles. This was illustrated by luxury car brand Porsche, which recently released an advert whose messaging conspicuously signalled that it used exclusively human-created content. This is a clear sign of a sharp divide between the wealthy and everyday people on the question of AI adoption. While the working classes are heavily influenced to buy into the idea that generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Suno, and VEO-3 represent the future of work, research, and art, luxury brands meant for the elite are concurrently reassuring their market that human craftsmanship, critical thinking, and genuine creativity remains central to their vision. “AI for thee, not for me” appears to be the message.
Across Africa, multiple Western state and NGO actors are pushing for this so-called “AI revolution” to take a central place in African educational systems. Even in some parts of the continent where basic access to electricity remains a challenge, governments are being feverishly lobbied to adopt “AI strategies” for their under-resourced educational systems. At the very same time, it has been reported that Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other Silicon Valley billionaires who are pushing AI adoption, not only enroll their children in Montessori schools but also restrict their exposure and access to the very same technology that their lobbyists are trying to push into African classrooms. The obvious danger in opening African education systems up to the so-called “AI Revolution” is that the next generation of Africans could end up devoid of the exact reading, writing, critical reasoning and creative skills that Africa needs to fully take its place in the world - instead trained from an early age to be reliant on ChatGPT, Grok, Suno, Nano Banana, and VEO-3 to do their thinking and expression for them.
At a time when high-level human thinking is needed more than ever on the continent, it is no accident that Western lobbyists are heavily pushing the normalisation of generative AI as a core pillar of African education. If Africa is to be maintained as a colonial resource plantation and a market for excess overseas production, young Africans must be made to read, write and think less, and consume more. In Africa and elsewhere, the constant global dynamic is that the poor and underprivileged are encouraged to outsource their intellectual processes to AI in order to “stay competitive," while the wealthy quietly protect the disciplines that actually sharpen the mind: reading, writing, artistry, and critical thinking.
Africans must see the “AI Revolution” for what it is. Far from just benign or neutral technological advancement, it is yet another manifestation of power consolidation by Western racial-capitalists. This class of people understands very well that literacy, philosophy, and art produce power, while delegation of thought only produces ignorance and compliance.
Despite whatever message they put out, the reality remains that thinking for yourself will in fact, never be “disrupted.”
@Kuikenyan There is a top band of 20% in CBC that will be used to decide who goes to the popular schools. Is that not still competition? And competition for what? You think 8.4.4 exams were a competition to simply pass a curriculum? What are you confused about?
Masses must always be kept in constant distractive entertainment mode. In U.S ppl are lining up at food banks, but airwaves are saturated w Trump/Ilhan feud. In Ke, lands are grabbed, ppl killed, but githeri media is asking what grade your spouse got in KCSE. What a fkn circus.
It has always been a CLASS war. Everyone is trying to join a certain class while escaping another class. A rat race.
Look at Balenciaga or Gucci craze, the upper deck moved on from that to less “known” but big brands like Loro Piana & will find another when its saturated.
Congratulations! Kenyans have lost another 3200 km² of our country to "white" rhinos. It is fully colonised and guarded by @KWSKenya homeguards. At this rate, Kenya will soon be as small (and poor) as Singapore!
KPLC; rogue monopoly
Collective punishment is in every colonial regime's playbook. It's meant to instill self-policing & deter resistance
Not only does KPLC extort Kenyans w inflated bills, but also when they pull these stunts they leave businesses crippled & families distraught.
We are divided along superficial lines. Individualism, capitalism's most successful project, is deeply ingrained into the Kenyan psyche. Everyone trying to get ahead in the rat race at the expense of everyone around them. This has been the default for 62 years.
Break the cycle.