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Someone explain to me, like a 5-year old, why this simple point that exams are an economic problem still confuses Kenyans. After Finance Bill, after the #GatekeepingKE problem with exams at Kenya school of law, you still don't understand? Is it that you don't understand or you don't WANT to understand? Kenyans died for protesting against the economic mismanagement for two years in a row and you are still confused to hear that that exams are not an 8.4.4 problem but an economic one? People are selling their land to bribe to enter lower level entry jobs in the police or KDF, and you still think Kenyans are nervous about grades? Your grandparents were deliberately failed in exams by the British during colonial times so that Africans don't enter the higher jobs reserved for Europeans, and you still think exams is an 8.4.4 problem? Kwani Moi brought 8.4.4 in the 1940s? This a serious psyop on the Kenyan mind. #CBCisheretostay

Someone explain to me, like a 5-year old, why this simple point that exams are an economic problem still confuses Kenyans. After Finance Bill, after the #GatekeepingKE problem with exams at Kenya school of law, you still don't understand? Is it that you don't understand or you don't WANT to understand? Kenyans died for protesting against the economic mismanagement for two years in a row and you are still confused to hear that that exams are not an 8.4.4 problem but an economic one? People are selling their land to bribe to enter lower level entry jobs in the police or KDF, and you still think Kenyans are nervous about grades? Your grandparents were deliberately failed in exams by the British during colonial times so that Africans don't enter the higher jobs reserved for Europeans, and you still think exams is an 8.4.4 problem? Kwani Moi brought 8.4.4 in the 1940s? This a serious psyop on the Kenyan mind. #CBCisheretostay

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So what's the difference between healthy and unhealthy competition? The curriculum? The numbers? The "high achievers" are still on the headlines and boys are being promised that girls beat them at every turn. Stop lying to Kenyans, please. There is no healthy or unhealthy competition. There is just a bad economy. It doesn't matter whether kids score B+ or 6 points. They won't get jobs because Kenyan economic decisions are made by robbers and thieves who have never worked in an honest job their entire lives. And then when the Gen Zs say they can't enter the economy, the government shoots and abducts them. #CBCisheretostay #KJSEA2025 #GatekeepingKE

So what's the difference between healthy and unhealthy competition? The curriculum? The numbers? The "high achievers" are still on the headlines and boys are being promised that girls beat them at every turn. Stop lying to Kenyans, please. There is no healthy or unhealthy competition. There is just a bad economy. It doesn't matter whether kids score B+ or 6 points. They won't get jobs because Kenyan economic decisions are made by robbers and thieves who have never worked in an honest job their entire lives. And then when the Gen Zs say they can't enter the economy, the government shoots and abducts them. #CBCisheretostay #KJSEA2025 #GatekeepingKE

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Zakayo has ruined his credibility at home and Kenya's abroad. It's so embarrassing to hear the reality of Kenya in Haiti repeated back to us. 🤦🏾

Zakayo has ruined his credibility at home and Kenya's abroad. It's so embarrassing to hear the reality of Kenya in Haiti repeated back to us. 🤦🏾

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399,624 views • 1 year ago

In Kenya, 1. Students don't know any history, not even European history. Maybe West Africans learn about King George and Napoleon, but here, they learn neither about Queen Elizabeth nor Dedan Kimathi. They lack what Yvonne Owuor called "historical intelligence," the very idea that all problems have historical roots. 2. Even if I try to teach continental and global history, which I have tried to do because it's my training, students will refuse to learn it. I once tried to explain neoliberalism to my class. One student got angry, told me white people have always hated us and there's nothing we can do about it, walked out of the class and dropped it altogether for the semester. The other students told me communism doesn't work and capitalism is here to stay. The students are told by the media, and even by some lecturers, that no one will employ them for knowing anything. The Ministry of Education changed the system in 2018 saying that Africans don't need knowledge, only practical skills. Kenya's president said that history is useless because knowing when Vasco da Gama came to Malindi can't help us build sewers. So the problem isn't European knowledge any more. This narrative that Africans are taught about Europe and not Africa is outdated. It was what the Ngugi wa Thiongo's said when curriculum was taught by the missionaries. So they did a thorough job of teaching about Europe. Things have changed. These days we don't teach Europe either. We now teach abstractions with no connection to lived reality, whether that reality is African or not. I know because I'm in the system. And even Woodson cautioned about vocational (or practical) training for Africans. One has to go back to the Booker T vs WEB Dubois debate of the 1890s. When "practical" is applied in African education, it entails what David said on my channel: sewing, cake baking and sandal weaving. In Kenya, it means frying eggs, slaughtering chicken and making sandwiches. In some cases even swimming in the grass (yes, it happened). Woodson said that vocational training for black Americans was usually mediocre and outdated. That's the model that was brought to Africa. The sabotage against African education changed in the 1990s. The culture problem was replaced by anti-intellectualism. That's an even deeper problem than mere European knowledge. Anti-intellectualism means no knowledge at all, practical or otherwise. Kangmwa Gofwen

In Kenya, 1. Students don't know any history, not even European history. Maybe West Africans learn about King George and Napoleon, but here, they learn neither about Queen Elizabeth nor Dedan Kimathi. They lack what Yvonne Owuor called "historical intelligence," the very idea that all problems have historical roots. 2. Even if I try to teach continental and global history, which I have tried to do because it's my training, students will refuse to learn it. I once tried to explain neoliberalism to my class. One student got angry, told me white people have always hated us and there's nothing we can do about it, walked out of the class and dropped it altogether for the semester. The other students told me communism doesn't work and capitalism is here to stay. The students are told by the media, and even by some lecturers, that no one will employ them for knowing anything. The Ministry of Education changed the system in 2018 saying that Africans don't need knowledge, only practical skills. Kenya's president said that history is useless because knowing when Vasco da Gama came to Malindi can't help us build sewers. So the problem isn't European knowledge any more. This narrative that Africans are taught about Europe and not Africa is outdated. It was what the Ngugi wa Thiongo's said when curriculum was taught by the missionaries. So they did a thorough job of teaching about Europe. Things have changed. These days we don't teach Europe either. We now teach abstractions with no connection to lived reality, whether that reality is African or not. I know because I'm in the system. And even Woodson cautioned about vocational (or practical) training for Africans. One has to go back to the Booker T vs WEB Dubois debate of the 1890s. When "practical" is applied in African education, it entails what David said on my channel: sewing, cake baking and sandal weaving. In Kenya, it means frying eggs, slaughtering chicken and making sandwiches. In some cases even swimming in the grass (yes, it happened). Woodson said that vocational training for black Americans was usually mediocre and outdated. That's the model that was brought to Africa. The sabotage against African education changed in the 1990s. The culture problem was replaced by anti-intellectualism. That's an even deeper problem than mere European knowledge. Anti-intellectualism means no knowledge at all, practical or otherwise. Kangmwa Gofwen

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

27,690 views • 1 month ago

Most of you Kenyans also believe that illiteracy is better than education. Illiteracy is good for everyone except yourselves. That's why you celebrated when kids were failed by Matiang'i, saying they what they deserved it because they're cheats. That's why you tell children that A students will be employed by D students. That's why the media calls knowledge "theory" which is useless to the market. That's why you accepted competence based education even when you were explicitly told that it has "no knowledge." There is a comment on TikTok where the Gachagua video was posted, where the person says: "very truthful.. you ask people with degree to do a simple job but they cant deliver but kiburi ya makaratasi imejaa kichwa." Many of you Kenyans believe, like Gachagua, that knowledge gives Africans "kiburi." Kenya is a deliberately stupid country and the worst part is that you think that being ignorant and dumb is humble and embracing "African culture." And then you expect the West to respect us. Kenya is deeply anti-intellectual. And what is this "simple job" that educated Kenyans supposedly can't get done? It's the delivery of our minerals and our dignity to the West without us asking questions. I saw this video of Gachagua on United In Grief's clip and my heart sank. Because I have heard even professors say the same thing, which is that knowledge spoils Africans. If you whine about underdevelopment and poverty, then in the next sentence say we need to remain illiterate, that is a deep cognitive dissonance. And that cognitive dissonance is a psychosis. No wonder our society is so violent.

Most of you Kenyans also believe that illiteracy is better than education. Illiteracy is good for everyone except yourselves. That's why you celebrated when kids were failed by Matiang'i, saying they what they deserved it because they're cheats. That's why you tell children that A students will be employed by D students. That's why the media calls knowledge "theory" which is useless to the market. That's why you accepted competence based education even when you were explicitly told that it has "no knowledge." There is a comment on TikTok where the Gachagua video was posted, where the person says: "very truthful.. you ask people with degree to do a simple job but they cant deliver but kiburi ya makaratasi imejaa kichwa." Many of you Kenyans believe, like Gachagua, that knowledge gives Africans "kiburi." Kenya is a deliberately stupid country and the worst part is that you think that being ignorant and dumb is humble and embracing "African culture." And then you expect the West to respect us. Kenya is deeply anti-intellectual. And what is this "simple job" that educated Kenyans supposedly can't get done? It's the delivery of our minerals and our dignity to the West without us asking questions. I saw this video of Gachagua on United In Grief's clip and my heart sank. Because I have heard even professors say the same thing, which is that knowledge spoils Africans. If you whine about underdevelopment and poverty, then in the next sentence say we need to remain illiterate, that is a deep cognitive dissonance. And that cognitive dissonance is a psychosis. No wonder our society is so violent.

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

79,459 views • 11 months ago

"International law" is European law, or as Walter Rodney put it, white law. From my conversation with Jemima Pierre.

"International law" is European law, or as Walter Rodney put it, white law. From my conversation with Jemima Pierre.

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

40,599 views • 5 months ago

I called it.

I called it.

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

18,537 views • 3 months ago

The KNEC budget problem for exams this year was foreseeable. And I doubt that the issue is resolved.

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The KNEC budget problem for exams this year was foreseeable. And I doubt that the issue is resolved.

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

34,589 views • 11 months ago

Today I received my hard copy of our co-edited book "The Education Alibi" from the publisher University of Michigan Press. Thank you all you Kenyans who listened to me when most wouldn't. #CBCisheretostay

Today I received my hard copy of our co-edited book "The Education Alibi" from the publisher University of Michigan Press. Thank you all you Kenyans who listened to me when most wouldn't. #CBCisheretostay

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

14,494 views • 5 months ago

The posts which had this video clip have been removed. But rules are rules. This is the background to the Oldonyonyokie Group Ranch dispute which NTV Kenya is trying to isolate as a purely about Gen Z.

The posts which had this video clip have been removed. But rules are rules. This is the background to the Oldonyonyokie Group Ranch dispute which NTV Kenya is trying to isolate as a purely about Gen Z.

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

25,455 views • 1 year ago

Ibrahim Traore and the power of thought. Latest on #MaishaKazini on YouTube, with MOgada.

Ibrahim Traore and the power of thought. Latest on #MaishaKazini on YouTube, with MOgada.

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

21,779 views • 11 months ago

The change of tone from the political class and the debates on the hashtags confirm that the focus on Ruto this whole time has been to divert attention from IMF, and the historical pattern of western capital resetting our economies to ensure that Africa never outgrows producing cheap, unskilled labor and raw materials. Part of why this message doesn't sink home, at least in Kenya, is because we believe that thinking beyond our basic needs is a luxury for Africans. But what that attitude really is, is racist. There's no way to get out of our current mess if we keep believing that it is not our place to learn about the world beyond State House, yet the strings are being pulled from beyond State House.

The change of tone from the political class and the debates on the hashtags confirm that the focus on Ruto this whole time has been to divert attention from IMF, and the historical pattern of western capital resetting our economies to ensure that Africa never outgrows producing cheap, unskilled labor and raw materials. Part of why this message doesn't sink home, at least in Kenya, is because we believe that thinking beyond our basic needs is a luxury for Africans. But what that attitude really is, is racist. There's no way to get out of our current mess if we keep believing that it is not our place to learn about the world beyond State House, yet the strings are being pulled from beyond State House.

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

20,637 views • 11 months ago

Kenyans, this isn't about tech. It's about business. Somebody is getting the tender to mark exams and is promising that they can do it with AI, removing those pesky teachers always disturbing Ministry of Education, Kenya (MoE) over pay. AI is about resetting business, privatizing public services, but the narrative is that heaven has come down to earth. #AIisheretostay

Kenyans, this isn't about tech. It's about business. Somebody is getting the tender to mark exams and is promising that they can do it with AI, removing those pesky teachers always disturbing Ministry of Education, Kenya (MoE) over pay. AI is about resetting business, privatizing public services, but the narrative is that heaven has come down to earth. #AIisheretostay

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

16,110 views • 10 months ago

Here's the thing: after normal human beings, not those stuck in perpetual childhood, identify problems, the question they need to ask is who is causing them and how, so they understand the change required. It's only in Africa where we're told to skip that and go to the solution.

Here's the thing: after normal human beings, not those stuck in perpetual childhood, identify problems, the question they need to ask is who is causing them and how, so they understand the change required. It's only in Africa where we're told to skip that and go to the solution.

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

14,945 views • 11 months ago

Madame Lynn Ngugi, Kenya is being blocked from industrializing. We need to stop believing GoK's grand speeches about resources and manufacturing. MOgada said this years ago. This narrative of minerals and benefiting whoever - that's not an industrialization narrative. It's not even a political one. It's a moral one. The real politics is that the west and Kenya's political elite don't want us to industrialize and leave our station at the bottom of the racial hierarchy. That's what the lastest IMF structural adjustment programs are for. That's why Ogada and I called it a an reset.

Madame Lynn Ngugi, Kenya is being blocked from industrializing. We need to stop believing GoK's grand speeches about resources and manufacturing. MOgada said this years ago. This narrative of minerals and benefiting whoever - that's not an industrialization narrative. It's not even a political one. It's a moral one. The real politics is that the west and Kenya's political elite don't want us to industrialize and leave our station at the bottom of the racial hierarchy. That's what the lastest IMF structural adjustment programs are for. That's why Ogada and I called it a an reset.

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

13,081 views • 11 months ago

Now that Kenyans are more sensitive to data collection, perhaps it's a time to revisit the same issue in CBE. Which is worse because the data is on families and minors. #MaishaKazini

Now that Kenyans are more sensitive to data collection, perhaps it's a time to revisit the same issue in CBE. Which is worse because the data is on families and minors. #MaishaKazini

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11,786 views • 11 months ago

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