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[H.O.P SME @Mapimpi_]

Kutoka Kapedo hadi Kibish (all within turkana county) is 585Kms.

Nairobi to Mombasa is 484Kms. Its madness

[C. R. Wiley @crwiley1962]

I’ve been waiting for a goose to be taught a lesson by a little kid.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Ibrahim Traoré’s Revolutionary Message To Burkinabé Students

In this quote from his keynote address at the inauguration of a new, 1,200-seater lecture hall at Nazi-BONI University in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, on September 11, 2026, Burkinabé President Captain Ibrahim Traoré speaks to Burkinabé students in attendance on the importance of their revolutionary duties, and how these duties far outweigh what they may perceive as their “rights” at this current stage in their nation’s development.

The West has done thorough work, through its media, NGOs and the colonially-imposed educational curricula it left behind in Africa, to convince Africans that the causes of their everyday problems revolve around “corruption”, “democracy” and “human rights”, as opposed to their geopolitical and economic relationship with Western countries.

A very convenient belief — for the West.

Yet all once-impoverished nations in the world that have ever developed – from China to Singapore to Iran to North Korea – developed under leaderships that served nationalist agendas, regardless of how any individuals or groups, external or internal, felt about it.

Leaderships which mandated the masses to put their revolutionary duties above their petty self-interest.

A nation, or continent, which embraces this principle is impossible to corrupt, and therefore, impossible to exploit.

Do you understand?

[Stanley Macharia @StanleyMachaari]

Political education in Africa should start with understanding democracy as a tool of the White supremacist empire.

[Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH]

Europe is completely screwed.

First it collaborated with US to destroy Nord Stream.

Then it sanctioned itself off of the rest of Russian energy.

Now Saudi can’t export oil to it.

To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, to be a friend is fatal.

[Stanley Macharia @StanleyMachaari]

The CIA and Mossad went for regime change in Iran only to trigger unintended regime change in Yemen. We are witnessing the fall of an empire in real time.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

These videos on Iranian science are completely misleading. They conveniently leave out the fact that those scientists were also philosophers. Some of them even wrote their dissertation on mathematics and philosophy. That's why they were able to make judgements about the type of weapons to make. Unlike Americans who throw so much money at sophisticated weapons that are cumbersome to operate, Iranians made simple weapons.

That's a philosophical decision. There's no science without humanities.

You're better off listening to @s_m_marandi about Iran's warfare than Anglo-Americans who are anti-intellectual and hate philosophical sophistication. And let me just mention that he's a professor of English and literature. https://t.co/dXjK5tGUsK

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The image of Jomo Kenyatta as a pan-Africanist is Britain's best psyop.

Jomo Kenyatta played the British game of riding on the wave of perception better than the British themselves (a Kenyan on this app equated it to the main character in the movie Forrest Gump). Kenyatta was a moderate who rarely condemned the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (Mau Mau) because he knew Africans were not going to follow the path of constitutionalism, rather than armed struggle, as he was suggesting.

Once Kenyatta became president, Malcolm MacDonald, the last colonial governor, became British High Commissioner and sanitized Jomo's image as an "old bear" (MacDonald's words) who was harmless. Then in 1965, Kenyatta launched a sessional paper on "African socialism" because he knew that announcing he was capitalist would get him into trouble with the rest of the continent. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga even explained it in "Not Yet Uhuru":

"Everyone advocates 'African socialism' but in the case of most [Kenya] party and government leaders this has become a cloak for the practice of total capitalism. These politicians want to build a capitalist system in the image of Western capitalism but are too embarrassed or dishonest to call it that. Their interpretation of independence and 'African socialism" is that they should move into the jobs and privileges previously held by settlers."

Apart from Not Yet Uhuru, the best two books about this problem are by Wunyabari Maloba, a very underrated but phenomenal Kenyan historian.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

It's not love. It's gaslighting.

The problem is the social value of mansions in ushago. Why do we build castles there, when by the time we retire, our children won't be living with us? The house will be empty, and we will be struggling to climb up the stairs with our arthritic knees. And it doesn't help that stone structures are cold at an age where we need warmth

But when such a thing is a value social value, it's easy to gaslight someone and make them feel like an alien for not valuing such a project. And everyone praises you when you do it. With that social pressure, it's very difficult to resist. And someone breathing down your neck every day about it makes things even worse.

The problem starts in the political economy. Kenya's political economy is very feudal and forces us to make choices to keep certain relationships and to have a certain status. We need a revolution to sort this out.

[Joe Kobuthi @jkobuthi]

Since the 60's Worldbank and IMF has never desired African universities. History will remember that @WilliamsRuto was the president who sold his country to this agenda.

KK administration is radicalising a nation.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Every Kenyan parent considering their children's higher education needs to know this:

If your child pursues higher education in a different country, Kenya will never stop punishing your child for it. Kenya will never allow your child to work in the area of their training. I've seen someone with a MA in Kiswahili from University of Dar, no less, being told she can never get a TSC number. That's Kenya.

So yes, you'll hear civil servants praising foreign education as "world class," and harassing Kenyan universities to uphold the standards of Oxford, but they will punish you for daring to go there yourselves and get that education. You're a nobody, you're just a native. You're not supposed to have ambitions beyond what DO John Ainsworth imagined for you. The way the settlers couldn't stand the idea of Africans going to school, is the same way civil servants see education in Kenya. They decide what is good for you. If bad imitations of Norwegian education are what they think you need, that's exactly what you'll get.

So yes, they are going to defund Kenyan public universities and tell you to go to Str-thmore instead, but dare you take that seriously and seek education in TZ, Rwanda or Uganda, let alone Europe or America. You will return to grief and lamentation. Doors will be shut, one after another. You will come back with a PhD in engineering and the best you can do is motivational speaking.

This is not different from colonial days. In "Not yet Uhuru," Jaramogi says that British colonial officers used to arrest Kenyans at the port and jail them if they dared to pursue scholarships in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile the settlers were fighting tooth and nail for Royal Technical College to remain a TVET and never become a university, let alone one for Africans to attend.

But I'm saying higher education abroad: even if you try here, you will get grief. Matiang'i was particularly vicious about it. He said that if you don't get a C+ in KCSE, you should never, ever, see a university classroom, even if you do 10 diplomas and have work experience. He threatened to withdraw the degrees of those who took the long route.

Our education problem isn't curriculum. It's not the job market. It's British snobbery and class consciousness. It's hostility to knowledge. Our politicians and civil servants are steeped in the British "gentleman" model of public education, which was brought here. And that model hates both skills and knowledge. Period.

That mindset prefers fantasies like "the advantages and disadvantages of British colonialism in Africa." And this anti-intellectualism makes going to school even more desirable because the more we are denied education, the more we sacrifice in our savings and resources to get it. Human beings cannot live without understanding their environment. But for seeking that knowledge, you will be punished. Severely. @scherargei will write a bill reducing medical workers to hospital butlers and elevating police officers to medical practitioners.

@NoCountryHere ametupatia suluhisho.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

I'm in a private university and I can assure you that this is bullshit. Public universities set the standard for education. Remove them and eventually, even private universities will be nothing to write home about.

The issue is not affording and cost. It's about philosophical purpose. Education is a public good, and lack of public education will create an education system that destroys the public sphere because education is no longer accountable to the public.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

So I read this grammatically and structurally correct essay, but the essay was colorless and uninformative. I asked the student if she had attended a group of schools, and she had. For a number of years I've felt that the more expensive one's school is, the more correct, but less imaginative one becomes.

I've been reading about British public schools, on which Kenyan secondary schools are modelled. I've realized that the goal of the secondary school isn't to impart skills and knowledge. It's to alter the character of the individual so completely, that the student leaves compliant, but with a big ego and no knowledge. The social media and quick access to bits of knowledge from the internet then assures the individual that there's nothing more to learn.

[thetimwork @thetimwork]

There's some major distraction being planned for kesho, wait and see. To deflate that Ol Kalau win....kina egg head are very predictable.

[Saddique Shaban @SaddiqueShaban]

Because Nairobi is fast turning out to be a lawless city and traffic rules mean nothing to some scalar quantities, the Lord's Work must be done.

[Black @LilithBlack25]

When you think about it , neocolonialism is actually worse than colonialism because it grants the illusion of sovereignty while actually preserving external control

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

There's no such thing as critical thinking. People either think, or they don't. The reason "critical" was added was to turn thinking into a commodity that is taught, instead of something that we do all the time.

The war then thinking in Africa is from imperialism. Your media, your school system, the church, "international law," the state's war on space and gatherings, the whole lot. We start thinking by fighting for freedom, not adopting the soundbites of the very system that who blocks us from thinking.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

One thing that upset Uhuru about 8.4.4. was how easily children of nobodies got education, up to university. The man did not like Kibaki's free education policy. He is not down to earth, not by a long stretch. And Matiang'i shared that madharau and viciously fought against Kenyans working their way into university. Not only did he massively fail children, he also wanted to withdraw degrees earned by people who entered university through diploma programs. He introduced publication requirements for PhD, increasing the amount of vanity publishing. And then, of course, he brought CBC that introduced a second layer of secondary school, so that JSS became the cliff over which children fall and end their education for good.

The reason why Kenyans are blind to what happened to their children is that all this war on education was justified as a concern for "quality" and "honesty." I even asked: do we realize what we are saying, which is that failure of children is something to celebrate? The idea is so racist, because it basically suggests that nothing is good if it has Africans in it. But the Uhuru/Matiang'i PR machine was so loud, it said that I was endorsing cheating and Kenyans believed it.

Uhuru and Matiang'i did a lot of damage to education and the Kenyan mind. A lot. We've been too preoccupied with the hurricane of Kasongo to understand what happened.

#CBCisheretostay

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

@bintiswahiliya KAPE: Kenya African Preliminary Examination. The failure rate was deliberately very high, to block Africans from qualifying for the next level of schooling. I mentioned it in my talk at Drunken Lectures.
https://t.co/lhbcU1l0bA

[Scribe Girl @her_eloquence]

The wittiest person you know most likely reads a lot. It’s one of the hacks they won’t tell you.