I am so angry with these narratives that are so readily accepted by educated Kenyans. Q 1. Why is this resource targeted at children from under resourced areas? The poor won't buy the app, have no internet or gadgets. So it's to pitch to GoK or World Bank or NGOs for tenders

b) Madharau for the poor. They want the rich to afford human teachers while the poor go to a machine. Ask middle class parents not to take their kids to school and put their kids in front of laptops, and see if they'll celebrate.

Q 2. How dare they equate a machine to flesh and blood teachers? NTV Kenya Rukia 🌔 know that TSC is facing a JSS teachers strike. So proposing so-called virtual teachers does two things: a. It pacifies middle-class Kenyans with a tech solution to a human problem

NTV Kenya Rukia 🌔 TSC Middle class Kenyans can now ignore the very unequal system that favors their kids because they can spend Sunday afternoon drinking beer and eating nyama choma saying now AI can resolve the inequality.

NTV Kenya Rukia 🌔 TSC b. It promotes the anti-human AI agenda of hating workers. Capital especially hates teachers because they are educated, connected to families across society, and worst of all, they consume money in salaries that capitalism prefers in its pockets.

I was a little nervous doing this interview on the Lynn Ngugi show. I knew what I had to say was not as sexy and as emotionally gripping as the stories of her other guests. Education is the hardest subject to discuss because it requires people to think. youtu.be/qifLA2bNYzo?si…

I'm convinced that Kenya is sustained by Western money. We can't have an extremely insipid, corrupt elite, an anti-intellectual academy, a non productive economy, and the economy hasn't crashed. There is an outside factor sustaining this Kenyan economy, but not on our behalf.

A Kenyan replied with this

NTV Kenya Education is political. youtu.be/hKaLC3H2-h4?si…

To understand the dysfunction of this statement, ES Atieno Odhiambo's essay on the ideology of order. Landmark essay that should be in the Kenyan canon. wandianjoya.com/uploads/3/1/2/…

📚Bibliophile Vicki📜 Stephen Corry #LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Survival International I've heard it in passing on KaziNiMaisha on how the same strategy, where conservation is used to dispossess indigenous and local people, is replicated worldwide, but with your addition, I'll have to widen my scope by familiarizing myself with Stephen Corry

I wondered why Kenyan psychologists were not reacting to the implications of CBC for child development. It has now registered why. They are the primary beneficiaries of the complicated process KICD has implemented of choosing pathways for grade 10. 🧵 #EducationCaptureKE

Spare some bundles for #MaishaKazini instead of scrolling the comedy videos. For your child, if nothing else. youtu.be/mWXtzyEBlOc?si…

In case you wondered why our young people can't find work, it's not because of the curriculum. It's because this is what the state spends money on. Surveillance on people so that the economy doesn't grow out of state control.

What the British did was to control the formation of unionism. So they took people like Kaggia and Mboya to learn unionism from the liberal British institutions, and alienated the more radical arm of unionism, mainly Asian, like Singh and Pinto from the nationalist movement.

This is from an article written by Willy Mutunga and Ali Mazrui on the Anglo interference in UASU. The link is here, and is open access. jstor.org/stable/4006326

And remember: Moi put the arts under education and development so as to "control" artists. That's why programs in BA arts (music, fine art, literature etc) are very difficult to find in Kenya.

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