THREAD: 1.The @dailynation's RECKLESS headline today is not unexpected. It is part of its historical and sustained attack on the Kenyan people. @MutemiWaKiama @Maskani254 @BettieWaShiro @AshaJaffar @vinnotiskot @mumbir @ndukoomatigere @NyoikeTj #covid19kenya #covid_19Ke #COVID19

2.From once labelling our freedom fighters as terrorists in the 50’s, in clear colonial-speak – it’s evolution to today’s context has been marked by its labelling of innocent youth summarily executed by the police over the years as ‘criminals’. Again, police-speak. #covid_19Ke

5. In his autobiography Not Yet Uhuru, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga mentions the Nation twice – none of them in positive light. Somewhere in the book, Jaramogi recounts his experiences after attending the Anti-Atomic Bomb Conference in Tokyo.

7.The govt had used the Emergency to kill the virile growth of African spreadsheets which did not boast handsome formats but made up 4 their poverty of appearance by their outspokenness. With the death of these papers the press of Kenya was dominated by diehard settler press...

4.I will not attempt to defend any person who actually does wrong, youth included. But to understand such reckless and blanket condemnation of the youth, one has to glance into the crevices of history, and attempt to understand the emergence and repetition of information patterns

6. Jaramogi extended his trip to China, the Soviet Union & Cairo where he met Nasser. Jaramogi says, “From the beginnings of AEMO, I'd been pressing for the setting up of a press controlled by Africans and the organization had agreed that I float an African newspaper company.

8. ...which had links with Uganda and Tanganyika, or the monopoly combines of the Thompson empire, allied with the Aga Khan. Throughout the territories of East Africa daily and weekly newspapers slanted the news, distorted nationalist policy...

10. He continues, “In time, my possessions were returned to me, including a bank slip that indicated that something like £10,000 had been banked in London for our struggle. When the matter... was raised in the legislative council I made no secret of the money or my journeyings.

14/14: The more things change the more they remain the same. So yes, it is not unexpected of them to call the youth reckless. In the same way, it is not unexpected of a dog to bark. The dog is barking, and this headline is not unexpected. Ni hayo tu.

11. The money had been paid by sympathetic countries to assist Kenyan students study in socialist countries and for a nationalist press… I also said emphatically that my visits to these countries abroad was essential to our cause. Many of my colleagues were unhappy at my remarks

12. The Nation said I had ‘done much to open the door for communist penetration of East Africa through my iron curtain peregrinations and professions of admiration 4 the communist regimes’, & some of my colleagues found this pro-imperialist newspaper was expressing their views...