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First time as tragedy, second time as farce, third time as stand-off

31/1/2018

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PictureThe Tuk Tuk stage by Jairo
​After whines about peace and tantrums about illegality from the Jubilee administration, the swearing in of Raila Odinga as the people’s president went ahead without violence.
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The country is not agreed on the impact or significance of the ceremony. For Jubilee supporters, the swearing-in was simply an affront to a legally elected and God-appointed president. For moderates who are keen to take neither side, the swearing in was simply theatrics, and the absence of the major NASA principals, including Kalonzo Musyoka who was supposed to be Odinga’s deputy, is proof that it was a weak move by a fractured coalition. For NASA supporters, it was a validation they needed after humiliation from an uncredible election and from what they consider an illegitimate Muigai presidency.

But for all the idiosyncrasies in the ceremony, I consider the swearing-in to achieved one major element: a challenge to the Jubilee tactic of using fait accomplis for governance.


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#CurriculumReformsKE: 2-6-3-3 is just a number; our education problems remain unaddressed

1/1/2018

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Picture"History Class" by Leroy Campell. Original, Mixed Media Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 12
The single greatest damage of 8-4-4 on the Kenyan psyche is to make us turn an educational structure into the scapegoat for all sorts of problems.
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Education is more than a curriculum and more than how many years one spends in primary, secondary and tertiary schools. Education is also about philosophy (why we teach), sociology (impact of society on education and vice versa), economics (how we fund education and education's economic value), psychology (what education does to our minds and our self-esteem), history (how we have educated over the years), pedagogy (what skills teachers use in the classroom).  Education is all that, and more.


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