There is one thing that Mwalimu has brought in my life that I really hate (but happily embrace) but will have to fulfill it till my death: I am now questioning everything I learnt and observed in my life growing up and unlearning most parts. I have now understood that the Kenya education system really messed us up psychologically and continues to do so to my kids. Not only am I try to unlearn myself from this rotten system, I am now focused on my daughters also to make them aware so that they don't fall into the same path us me and my parents. Thank you Mwalimu for opening our eyes.
Everytime I listen to you Prof., I am afraid of how my kids are learning in school. Thank you for opening up our minds. I have to be different. I need to be for their own sake.
This was brilliant, and I love how you use, not just context but analogies of local games and so on, to explain historical materialist analysis. The global economic system into which we have been subjected demands that we not be educated and every few decades they come up with a more sophisticated way of re-asserting this. I’m glad you raise the issue of ideology because these ones were wrestling with today coincided with the imposition of neoliberalism during the Reagan/Thatcher era and the attempt to rescue a failing capitalism. This era was the start of a renewed assault on the global working class. So all of these neoliberal ideas reifying hyper individualism, sex work is work, degrees are overrated etc, all of this represents an Ideological War on the poor, especially in the global south. It also reminds me of the brilliant observation theorised by Aime Cesaire of the “colonial boomerang” which strengthens the case you make for Pan Africanism as a means of Resistance. African-Americans, and the vast majority of poor, working people in the west, are finding that the the fascist tactics that were perfected in Africa, Asia and Latin America are now being used on them, against their liberation and to subjugate them to being serfs for global capital. Please make sure you put lots of clips on TikTok on Twitter and everywhere so that people can access this 35 minutes of wisdom. Thank you!
Think it also may have something to do with how we associate Kiswahili the language with backwardness , heard that they're planning to let the kids opt out of doing both languages, interesting times
I think you should now start considering that idea of yours of setting up an online platform to avail higher education material without the need to award degrees. Afterall, since GOK, IMF, the West don't want us Africans to acquire knowledge by blocking university/college access, we might as well do it ourselves and make them persona non-grata.
There is one thing that Mwalimu has brought in my life that I really hate (but happily embrace) but will have to fulfill it till my death: I am now questioning everything I learnt and observed in my life growing up and unlearning most parts. I have now understood that the Kenya education system really messed us up psychologically and continues to do so to my kids. Not only am I try to unlearn myself from this rotten system, I am now focused on my daughters also to make them aware so that they don't fall into the same path us me and my parents. Thank you Mwalimu for opening our eyes.
Everytime I listen to you Prof., I am afraid of how my kids are learning in school. Thank you for opening up our minds. I have to be different. I need to be for their own sake.
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This was brilliant, and I love how you use, not just context but analogies of local games and so on, to explain historical materialist analysis.
The global economic system into which we have been subjected demands that we not be educated and every few decades they come up with a more sophisticated way of re-asserting this.
I’m glad you raise the issue of ideology because these ones were wrestling with today coincided with the imposition of neoliberalism during the Reagan/Thatcher era and the attempt to rescue a failing capitalism. This era was the start of a renewed assault on the global working class.
So all of these neoliberal ideas reifying hyper individualism, sex work is work, degrees are overrated etc, all of this represents an Ideological War on the poor, especially in the global south.
It also reminds me of the brilliant observation theorised by Aime Cesaire of the “colonial boomerang” which strengthens the case you make for Pan Africanism as a means of Resistance. African-Americans, and the vast majority of poor, working people in the west, are finding that the the fascist tactics that were perfected in Africa, Asia and Latin America are now being used on them, against their liberation and to subjugate them to being serfs for global capital.
Please make sure you put lots of clips on TikTok on Twitter and everywhere so that people can access this 35 minutes of wisdom. Thank you!
Spot on!
Dying here 😂 like why would anyone translate such a beautiful game to English.
Thank you so much for talking about the importance of context
Think it also may have something to do with how we associate Kiswahili the language with backwardness , heard that they're planning to let the kids opt out of doing both languages, interesting times
Excellent teaching.
I hope you are also a formal teacher/educator of teachers across Kenya schools and universities.
Thank you for sharing!
31:38 ...Sums it all.
Madam,That was insigtful but truth to be told certain degrees are useless,mickey mouse degrees
Which degree is useless?
I think you should now start considering that idea of yours of setting up an online platform to avail higher education material without the need to award degrees. Afterall, since GOK, IMF, the West don't want us Africans to acquire knowledge by blocking university/college access, we might as well do it ourselves and make them persona non-grata.
Madam. Give some hope.