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8-4-4=0 EDUCATION SYSTEM

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     Had that test today. Not a CAT, a Sit In Test. Yes there is a difference. Either it was simple or I have become brighter. I am guessing the former[LSEJA]. Some photography class. I swear the higher the level of education the higher the level of confusion. Just goes on to prove my theory that the 8-4-4 education system in Kenya amounts to nothing. 8-4-4=0           Do you remember the primary colours as taught in primary school? Maybe I am the one that went to a module II class or something because what I was taught was that the primary colours were yellow, red and blue. By that fat Art and Crafts  teacher with brown teeth. Mrs. Magego. Okay I am lying. She was not fat. I am also pretty sure she did not have brown teeth. I have bad memory so that is what my imagination could come up with. Anyway. Blue, yellow and red were the primary colours then you mix these to get the secondary colours. Red and yellow equals to orange. r...

WASAPERE WA EASTLANDO

     I am not one to generalise. So I hate stereotyping. It is just that in Kenya stereotyping what we love to do. And hot damn it has reached a point that it is funny as hell. Take tribal stereotyping for instance. My tribe can be said to be Kikuyu so I am a mkikuyu aka msapere (in slang/shen'g). Wasapere (which is the plural of msapere) are 'known' to love money so much that they are thieves in nature. They will steal anything in order to make money. money-oriented is what they are. They have been known to fake being of another tribe just to make money.      This is how. See in Kenya tourism is kinda catchy with them Whiteys loving to visit for the cool weather , the scenery and the culture. And the latter is where a Kikuyu comes in. Since we have been affected by the western culture, most of our traditions have been wiped out. It has been so eroded that we wear clothes these days. Yeah. That bad. Only very few tribes still hold on to their culture, one ...