Here is the hot thread discussing GEMA's endorsement.
jukwaa.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=6744I want to combine the assessment with the earlier birthday bash to give an evaluation and a particular commentry. Here below
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Uhuru Kenyatta has of late, following the ICC indictment and the need to deal with it (on the ideological plane too), been folding himself in the nationalist shroud and casting himself in the image of his father, a supposed honourable man who, in the service to his country, was persecuted and demonized by colonial powers. And these powers were with their dubious designs then as now, helped by their local hirelings to undo the peoples's cause! Embodied in the name Kenyatta!
I reckon it is a bubble he should be careful about. He should not believe it, but milk it for what it is worth. I mean in propaganda Kenyan style, there is no problem developing such a blatant lie and propagating it; the pitfall is when one has not enough self-reflection and believes it himself, to the extent of thinking
I am a bird, watch me fly. That is when one becomes my man
Icarus.Here is why it is dangerous for Uhuru.
Kenyatta senior is no pillar of national liberation. His tenure in office can be summarised as a period in which
Kenya became firmly embedded in the neo-colonial orbit of the western powers. And, locally,
the homegaurds entrenched themselves in state power. This is the period in which all attempts to reform the inherited repressive state, so that it could be more responsive to popular aspirations and genuine nationalist agenda, were crushed by the Jomo-led comprador class, setting the stage for
professor Moi to develop the model to its logical apex.
And it was that Professor Moi who handpicked Uhuru as the best guarantor of his rotten legacy.
Uhuru Kenyatta is in reality, therefore, the furthest thing from national resistance to foreign domination. (
Tiende lothni e wor,
that is the footprint of genuine nationalists of the past is too big for his tiny CV, however much he sex it up!].
And Kenyatta senior's nationalist credentials, are largely a myth too. All this means that, the heroism and cult of
uzalendo which Kenyatta jnr wants to exalt in, is a fake narrative. he would be a fish diving into a barren and dead pool of toxic waste. ---
(But you have to know your critical history to know that. And a man with mass media control, like Berlusconi of Italy was, can conjure up a fake narrative and ride it for a while before it invariably bursts!)
What Uhuru can do with the Kenyatta name and money, is to buy conformity, buy apparent compliance, apparent unanimity like the recent
declaration of Gema, that he is the chosen one. But you also buy duplicity, because I cannot believe men like
Kiraitu have clean hearts when they preach a million signatures to defer ICC! A lawyer of his standing knows better, so why does he do it? Money? But I hasten to add duplicity is an acceptable risk in this line of business!
Then.
UK as minister of finance, is the chap who surrendered
intellectual autonomy, by having the IMF consultants from afar write the key financial bills in the new constitution. That in itself is not a problem ---If Kenyan economists like Jukwaa's S&S are substandard, then one has to find better stuff elsewhere, just like
Raila and
Kibaki went for foreign doctors, and
Nyong'o and
Mugo too went, ashaming our local [substandard?] medics and their shoddy gears!--- The problem, on credibility, comes when on another front he turns around and starts blasting foreigners on nationalist grounds! Yet even his own lawyers are foreign! So mouthing nationalist slogans is a dead end too.
This anti-foreign rhetoric --(the clothing in and mongering of nationalist phraseology in the name of some great anti-colonial heritage), becomes a badge of outright unthinkingness, such that one is wont to cut the virulent
Miguna Miguna some slack, when he said Uhuru Kenyatta's brains is a brand of porridge they used to serve in Nyanza secondary schools in the 80s. [Actually it is rather the brains of his current propaganda team!]
NB: Uhuru's 'nationalist' credentials are purely fascitoid and ethnic Gikuyu. As diaspora gikuyus were displaced during PEV,
he facilitated wild justice in their cause; that is, he funded sections of mungiki to kill and maim a certain nation which, interestingly, were not the major perpetrators of gikuyu ethnic cleansing and murder. There is no way he can mutate this
narrative into an all Kenya nationalist achievement! He is a tribal baron, has been crowned tribal baron, and has negated all his all Kenyan nationalism!
But, and I always worry about emergent historical forces still lurking in the shadows behind the curtains, awaiting their moment on the stage of history, perhaps he [UK&co) are a pointes to the eventual disintergration of Kenyanness into component nationalisms. (It is possible to discern a continueing process of baronization of Kenyan politics as interpreted by the current elite: Mudavadi competes with Wamalwa for the Luhya crown; the Luo crown is safely with Raila --undisputed; Ruto competes you know who for the Kalenjin crown; Kalonzo competes Ngilu, and the muslim one is still an anarchical free for all! An alternative narrative has not hit the streets yet, so the tribal barons have a field day concocting magical unions to make the numbers!)
Will the real Kenyans stand up! those whose hearts owe loyalty to Kenya first, and only thereafter to their 'nations', or ethnic identities!
UK the Kenyan hero is bullshit! But we have to find out how big the market for bullshit is, out there! Kenyans can surprisingly have a very large appetite for bulshit. But one must plot an escape route as he serves plenty bullshit! Bullshit goes some way, but not all the way. Tribal kings beware!