Kenyans treat children going to school like Abraham taking his son to chop him up as a sacrifice. They hope that when they reach the top of the mountain, they'll hear a voice from the government telling that school isn't worth crushing their child's dignity and making them sleep in fire hazard dorms. But the state isn't that god. It's going to let us crush our children's dignity in the name of education. That's the point. And we cannot fix this through commissions and more professors speaking through their noses about nothing. We have to do it politically, through making specific demands about THE ECONOMY so that schooling isn't the lifeline for survival.
Kenya's economy is not productive. It's bureaucratic. It is not normal to have an economy where education is a sacred ticket. It should be WORK and ideas running the economy. Not certificates.
But we never got out of this certificate-dependent economy because of the Africanization policies we had at independence. Because Kenya had settlers, we had more civil servants and therefore more posts to Africanize. So succeeding in life meant replacing a mzungu, earning his salary, living in his house and using your salary for loans to start side hustles, and using government privilege for tax evasion and tenders. In other words, education certificates became the ticket to enter government and entering government became the ticket to wealth.
Worse, the settler economy meant that Africans production was suppressed. At independence, Africans were doing on 6% of agricultural production. In Uganda, it was 63%.
And what wealth can government people create? None. They don't produce. They can only do side hustles, theft of public resources and fake monopolies. They can't invent anything. As long as the state remains the bank funding hustles and tenders, the school system is going to remain a death trap and a soul crusher for our children.
That's what I'll be saying at
@drunkenlectures next week.
So there,
@SokoAnalyst is the explanation for why GoK hates MSMEs, using policy to supposedly help MSMEs but in reality smothering them to death. Civil servants actually think they know better than the people doing the daily work of running the business.
#tyrannyof3pc
#MaishaKazini