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And the person gaslighting next rains. The farmer will or civilization has come to our
them is the one who will be need food aid. Reports will be doorstep but don’t look behind
selling this tech to them and written about the provision of the curtains to see the hands of
using the data collected from the jembe was patriarchal, and the puppeteer doing the magic.
us. The seller of the steel jembe. how the youth, women and
But when we ask about the other minorities didnt get steel The very youths who are the
steel jembe, the civil society jembes. Journalists will do target of projects like NSSM-
types, funded by the steel jembe “investigative reporting” to say 200 and who are supposed to be
manufacturer, go hysterical. woiyee and get awards. thinking and engaging truth are
They wail that we’re obsessed busy doing videos and arguing
with blaming the west and that Meanwhile, the manufacturer about which African country
we don’t want the farmer to get goes to the next Davos to boast has the best capital city or best
assistance in planting food. about helping African farmers. infrastructure, which, by the
Have you noticed the slippage After all, from this whole way, are mostly built using debt
here? You’re talking about the operation, the manufacturer from the banks that are run by
tool, but they are gaslighting has recouped his costs from the the very people who are behind
you to talk about the food by tenders to sell steel handles, and the agenda to keep the youths
accusing you of wanting people has a foundation to sanitize his unproductive.
to starve. It’s amazing! reputation, and best of all, he
And if you try to clarify what has captured your farming. You There is a massive agenda to
you’re saying, they’ll tell you can’t eat except what he decides perpetually keep Africa poor
that you’re proud and that you you will eat. through the use of chaos, proxy
refuse to accept you’re wrong. wars, violent insurrections,
But wrong about what? They That’s what’s going to happen harmed groups who are funded
don’t say. How are you wrong? with Digital ID. Our lives won’t by the very people talking about
change. The economy won’t peace-keeping missions, and
And that’s the evil genius of grow. We’ll just have more then also control her population
this system. When you want to tech, more bureaucracy, more through the gay agenda,
go to the detail, they gaslight forms to fill, more trips to the abortions, contraceptives and
you with broad narratives, when GoK offices, more hours online, even vaccines.
you want to discuss the broad to slow us down from noticing
narratives, they condemn you that nothing is working. And It is sad while all these agendas
for not discussing the detail. has never worked.” are going on, many Africans are
So, back to the farmer with the busy dancing around the “new
steel handled jembe. So, just as Wandia Njoya’s shiny jembe” while the land
writeup has painted clearly, (the real issue) is left untilled.
The farmer doesn’t plant Africans love to dance around
enough, and doesn’t have projects and narratives that fuel But for how long?
enough food to last till the the falsehood that modernity
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