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I said in 2010 that having a president who was the son of a former president, and worse, with crimes against humanity charges, was going to send the Kenyan soul to a dark place. It would make us salivate for land as a substitute to work, value bloodlines instead of achievement.
Then in 2014, I said that the price we would pay for having him is that we would behave like Kenyan lives don't matter. That was when the president made some really horrible remarks about the rape of a toddler.
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In 2017, after Godec imposed Muigai, I said the moral defeat of the Kenyan resistance would make us turn inward. We should expect more intimate violence because Kenyans would feel suffocated. Without an outlet, they would take out their despair and anger on spouses and kids.
I didn't know Wahura Kanyoro. But upon reading what she wrote, I am angry, not sad. And when I read people talking about beefing up mental health treatment and discussing depression, I'm even angrier.
This is what she wrote in December 2020.
This is what she wrote in December 2020.
There was a very clear catalyst for Wahura's sorrow. It was a country whose government has so much contempt for medical workers who get trained and work hard to help us maintain our health.
How are they treated? Wahura was very clear.
How are they treated? Wahura was very clear.
She said working in public healthcare "was slowly killing me to work as a precursor to the morgue instead of as a doctor." Put yourself in Wahura's shoes. You're trained to protect life, but you are reduced by a cruel @MOH_Kenya to be an escort for the end of life.
This conversation of #thetackle with @DavidNdii was just brilliant. I didn't realize that I have never listened to him for an extended length of time without a specific agenda. @geraldbitok you have done well.
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There were a number of aha! moments for me. One was the distinction Ndii made between the class that wants wealth by entitlement, and the other by enterprise.
I love that. Because it also destroys the narrative of #upperdeckpeopleKE of "merit."
I love that. Because it also destroys the narrative of #upperdeckpeopleKE of "merit."
"Merit," which is what our education is about, is a pipeline through which the people who rule on the basis of entitlement throw crumbs at 3% of us to join them.
That's why #upperdeckpeopleKE don't support public education. They think their kids have a chance at #tyrannyof3pc
That's why #upperdeckpeopleKE don't support public education. They think their kids have a chance at #tyrannyof3pc
My friend from another country is traumatized by the stories of school violence that Kenyans are casually recounting.
He can't believe the levels of violence, and the lack of moral outrage.
Outsiders' reactions help us see the absurdity of what we call "normal."
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He can't believe the levels of violence, and the lack of moral outrage.
Outsiders' reactions help us see the absurdity of what we call "normal."
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Kenya has accomplished the feat that our mother country Britain has: we cover up our reality so effectively and project a different image of ourselves. That's why my friend is shocked that Kenya is like this. We are so good at cover up.
Cover up has become an instinct with us Kenyans, that during the PEV, the first concern of the elites was not the people dying, but what would happen to the Kenya brand. This brand thing is repeated to us through the colonial rhetoric of tourism. theelephant.info/features/2018/…
Let's be clear about boarding schools.
1. The roots of boarding schools are in the British aristocracy. They're not designed for poor kids who don't have access to education. The need for education by ordinary citizens is supposed to be met by a local public school #tyrannyof3pc
1. The roots of boarding schools are in the British aristocracy. They're not designed for poor kids who don't have access to education. The need for education by ordinary citizens is supposed to be met by a local public school #tyrannyof3pc
2. Boarding schools are designed for the rich, with matrons, dorm masters, cooks, grounds, medical staff, security, housekeeping, etc who take care of the kids' living conditions. Eton, the British school we imitate, has a staff of 800. Only 155 of them are teachers #tyrannyof3pc
3. At the very least, a public boarding school should have a complete kitchen and grounds staff, a nurse, a housekeeper and a live-in dorm master per dorm. Most Kenyan schools cant afford that. That is why students are forced to become the labor to do that work #tyrannyof3pc
The Kenyan Education system does the exact opposite of what education is supposed to do: It disempowers instead of empowering, it is oppressive instead of being liberating. THREAD.
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Public primary schools are defunded which means that parents who can afford to move their children to private schools in the hope that their children will have higher chances of success in exams which translates to hope of these children joining top national schools
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Those who can't afford private schools have to make do and for a lot of Kenyans, this fates you to a certain outcome. One that will continuously limit opportunities, making it harder for you to succeed in the ways that success is measured in this country.
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