Bogus Kenyan History: Online Lies Exposed
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 9:02 am
Most articles in blogs, and posts on social media that appear on top of search results regarding Kenya are meant to mislead and brainwash people into believing falsehoods as representing the real Kenyan story.
I remember once reading online posts about certain events that happened in my home area before I was born. What puzzled me was that I had never heard about the events, yet that is the place I was born, brought up, and went to school.
I had never heard those events being discussed among my age mates, or even by the elders who would have known about them.
Upon following the online conversation, I realized that none of the posters talking about the events in my home area came from that place, or anywhere nearby. They had all got their information from a certain published book that claimed to have been the product of research into the events in question.
Obviously, the author of that book was lying about the events. Looking at the background of that author, I concluded that vested interests influenced the publication of lies in the book.
The matter might seem to be petty. People lie all the time. And many non-fiction books have later been found to be fiction.
The problem is that I have come to discover that posts/articles/tweets spreading falsehoods about Kenya are always pushed to the top by search engines. And not only that - posts/articles/tweets that contradict these falsehoods and propaganda are not only pushed to the back by the search engines, they are usually completely hidden from view (i.e. they are completely undiscoverable).
In simple terms: There are 100 articles online that talk about issue ABCDXYZ, and all have sufficient links. One would expect that all would be discoverable by users via search engines.
But that is not what happens. The search engines might only show 70 of the ABCDXYZ articles. Therefore, unless you know the urls of the other 30 articles, you will never know about their existence.
Imagine going to a library, and asking where you can find books about farming. Instead of the librarian showing you where the books are, so you can select the ones you want to read, he directs you to the books about farming that he has decided are appropriate for you to read.
This is what search engines have been doing, at least regarding articles/websites about Kenya.
In terms of rigged algorithms, Google takes the Gold medal, followed by Facebook, then Twitter, then DuckDuckgo, Bing…(NB: This is a very broad topic, to be explained in a different article).
Back to lies about Kenya history that have been made popular by search engine bias. Who owns the search engines, hello?
One popular online myth is that rich Kenyans currently are people whose parents/grandparents benefited from colonialism i.e. the ones who collaborated with the colonialists.
Let us now look at the facts.
1. Ndirangu - who shot Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi - was rewarded handsomely by the colonial government and became a rich man. He also bought a brand new lorry (“MUTHIRIMO WA KIMATHI”) in the 1950s.
.
The last I heard of his progeny, they were peasants.
Let us get this right: The family of Kenya’s no. 1 colonial collaborator, the man who shot Field Marshal Kimathi in the leg and captured him on behalf of her Majesty’s government on 21 October 1956, is not rich currently.
2. J. M. Kariuki was a Mau Mau (actually, Kenya Land and Freedom Army) liaison officer. By 1970, J. M. Kariuki (or just JM as he was popularly known) was already a millionaire, and one of the richest Kenya Africans.
The Reality
The people who became very rich after independence were the ones who were already LITERATE. It did not matter what side one was before independence. The keyword is LITERACY.
JM was well educated, by the standards of those days. So was Dedan Kimathi. Unfortunately, Kimathi did not live to see Kenya get independence. If he had, he would also have become rich.
Now to the current Kenya.
If a true study was done in Kenya, and a list of 100 wealthiest Kenyan-Africans compiled, I am certain that less than 5 would be from families of people who collaborated with the colonial government.
In fact, at least 90 of the 100 richest Kenyan Africans come from poor families.
Therefore, the fact that the opposite of this reality is what appears online as true, can only mean one thing: Deliberate misinformation. The question is, what is the agenda?
The people who own/control the search engines and social media are the GLOBAL MAFIA. When they change peoples’ history, they replace it with whatever serves their interests.
If a Kenyan who perpetuates the GLOBAL MAFIA’s propaganda about Kenya without knowing read this article, he will declare that the author must have come from a colonial collaborator family.
To that, I will say this: If Kenya’s wealth at independence was divided equally among all Kenyans, my family would have gained. If Kenya’s wealth upon President Jomo Kenyatta’s death in 1978, was divided equally among all Kenyans, my family would have gained.
Let a lie be called a lie.
The GLOBAL MAFIA’s propaganda about Kenyan issues is meant to breed hate and resentment among Kenyans. It is meant to create the impression that a Kenyan must be evil and corrupt in order to succeed.
In online articles about Kenya (apparently written by Kenyans) that are pushed to the top by search engines, it is common to read that so-and-so is rich because his father was a thief.
What people who spread these stories forget is that, yes, a person can be rich if his father is a thief (e.g. bank thief); yet another person can be poor, even if his father is a thief (e.g. village chicken thief).
Therefore, a grown up person’s economic status says nothing about his parents (unless you are a close associate of the family).
NOTE:
1. Did you know that if the GLOBAL MAFIA was as weak in 2007 as it was in 1978 there would have been no 2007/2008 violence in Kenya?
2. Did you know that if the GLOBAL MAFIA suddenly lost its power, there would be peace in Somalia?
NB: Soon, I will write an article about how there would be no major land-related problems in Kenya if it were not for the GLOBAL MAFIA. In that upcoming article, I will expound on the fact that what top Kenyan bloggers/social media “influencers” say - and believed by a significant section of Kenyans - about land matters in Kenya, at least from a historical perspective, is actually false. And how come no media in Kenya has ever bothered to correct the falsehoods? What I do know is that if you write an article correcting these falsehoods, the search engines & social media automatically shadow ban you. Therefore, it is obvious who is behind the spread of the lies. The agenda? Destabilisation of Kenya.
READ: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19886/ && https://kenyaiforum.co.ke/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19883/ && https://semaukweli.wordpress.com/
I remember once reading online posts about certain events that happened in my home area before I was born. What puzzled me was that I had never heard about the events, yet that is the place I was born, brought up, and went to school.
I had never heard those events being discussed among my age mates, or even by the elders who would have known about them.
Upon following the online conversation, I realized that none of the posters talking about the events in my home area came from that place, or anywhere nearby. They had all got their information from a certain published book that claimed to have been the product of research into the events in question.
Obviously, the author of that book was lying about the events. Looking at the background of that author, I concluded that vested interests influenced the publication of lies in the book.
The matter might seem to be petty. People lie all the time. And many non-fiction books have later been found to be fiction.
The problem is that I have come to discover that posts/articles/tweets spreading falsehoods about Kenya are always pushed to the top by search engines. And not only that - posts/articles/tweets that contradict these falsehoods and propaganda are not only pushed to the back by the search engines, they are usually completely hidden from view (i.e. they are completely undiscoverable).
In simple terms: There are 100 articles online that talk about issue ABCDXYZ, and all have sufficient links. One would expect that all would be discoverable by users via search engines.
But that is not what happens. The search engines might only show 70 of the ABCDXYZ articles. Therefore, unless you know the urls of the other 30 articles, you will never know about their existence.
Imagine going to a library, and asking where you can find books about farming. Instead of the librarian showing you where the books are, so you can select the ones you want to read, he directs you to the books about farming that he has decided are appropriate for you to read.
This is what search engines have been doing, at least regarding articles/websites about Kenya.
In terms of rigged algorithms, Google takes the Gold medal, followed by Facebook, then Twitter, then DuckDuckgo, Bing…(NB: This is a very broad topic, to be explained in a different article).
Back to lies about Kenya history that have been made popular by search engine bias. Who owns the search engines, hello?
One popular online myth is that rich Kenyans currently are people whose parents/grandparents benefited from colonialism i.e. the ones who collaborated with the colonialists.
Let us now look at the facts.
1. Ndirangu - who shot Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi - was rewarded handsomely by the colonial government and became a rich man. He also bought a brand new lorry (“MUTHIRIMO WA KIMATHI”) in the 1950s.
.
The last I heard of his progeny, they were peasants.
Let us get this right: The family of Kenya’s no. 1 colonial collaborator, the man who shot Field Marshal Kimathi in the leg and captured him on behalf of her Majesty’s government on 21 October 1956, is not rich currently.
2. J. M. Kariuki was a Mau Mau (actually, Kenya Land and Freedom Army) liaison officer. By 1970, J. M. Kariuki (or just JM as he was popularly known) was already a millionaire, and one of the richest Kenya Africans.
The Reality
The people who became very rich after independence were the ones who were already LITERATE. It did not matter what side one was before independence. The keyword is LITERACY.
JM was well educated, by the standards of those days. So was Dedan Kimathi. Unfortunately, Kimathi did not live to see Kenya get independence. If he had, he would also have become rich.
Now to the current Kenya.
If a true study was done in Kenya, and a list of 100 wealthiest Kenyan-Africans compiled, I am certain that less than 5 would be from families of people who collaborated with the colonial government.
In fact, at least 90 of the 100 richest Kenyan Africans come from poor families.
Therefore, the fact that the opposite of this reality is what appears online as true, can only mean one thing: Deliberate misinformation. The question is, what is the agenda?
The people who own/control the search engines and social media are the GLOBAL MAFIA. When they change peoples’ history, they replace it with whatever serves their interests.
If a Kenyan who perpetuates the GLOBAL MAFIA’s propaganda about Kenya without knowing read this article, he will declare that the author must have come from a colonial collaborator family.
To that, I will say this: If Kenya’s wealth at independence was divided equally among all Kenyans, my family would have gained. If Kenya’s wealth upon President Jomo Kenyatta’s death in 1978, was divided equally among all Kenyans, my family would have gained.
Let a lie be called a lie.
The GLOBAL MAFIA’s propaganda about Kenyan issues is meant to breed hate and resentment among Kenyans. It is meant to create the impression that a Kenyan must be evil and corrupt in order to succeed.
In online articles about Kenya (apparently written by Kenyans) that are pushed to the top by search engines, it is common to read that so-and-so is rich because his father was a thief.
What people who spread these stories forget is that, yes, a person can be rich if his father is a thief (e.g. bank thief); yet another person can be poor, even if his father is a thief (e.g. village chicken thief).
Therefore, a grown up person’s economic status says nothing about his parents (unless you are a close associate of the family).
NOTE:
1. Did you know that if the GLOBAL MAFIA was as weak in 2007 as it was in 1978 there would have been no 2007/2008 violence in Kenya?
2. Did you know that if the GLOBAL MAFIA suddenly lost its power, there would be peace in Somalia?
NB: Soon, I will write an article about how there would be no major land-related problems in Kenya if it were not for the GLOBAL MAFIA. In that upcoming article, I will expound on the fact that what top Kenyan bloggers/social media “influencers” say - and believed by a significant section of Kenyans - about land matters in Kenya, at least from a historical perspective, is actually false. And how come no media in Kenya has ever bothered to correct the falsehoods? What I do know is that if you write an article correcting these falsehoods, the search engines & social media automatically shadow ban you. Therefore, it is obvious who is behind the spread of the lies. The agenda? Destabilisation of Kenya.
READ: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19886/ && https://kenyaiforum.co.ke/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19883/ && https://semaukweli.wordpress.com/