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tycho
#1 Posted : Monday, December 14, 2015 7:55:15 AM
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In the last few days I've been looking at several country's national strategies and I began asking myself why I couldn't find a published version of Kenya's strategy.

The question was still lingering in my head even when my attention shifted to the study of foot prints. That's when I had this hunch that probably we have little sense of strategy because the Nyayo philosophy has, or was weakened, if not neglected.

I suspect that this philosophy is the best way forward for Kenya and that we should not only revise it but innovate around it to meet our challenges and to forge new pathways.
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murchr
#2 Posted : Monday, December 14, 2015 7:56:50 AM
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What strategy? Vision 2030?
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tycho
#3 Posted : Monday, December 14, 2015 8:44:33 AM
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murchr wrote:
What strategy? Vision 2030?


Not vision 2030. Vision 2030 is more of a development program that assumes the existence of a nation state and that the nation state is facing homogeneity and stability through time especially in the political and cultural fronts.

It's these underlying foundations of the development program that are doubtful. The strategy I'm talking about is about a cohesive and consistent political, cultural and social framework of seeing, interpreting and acting in the world. A framework of creating and sustaining relationships, and ensuring for example, that vision 2030 can be achieved efficiently and effectively.
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Swenani
#4 Posted : Monday, December 14, 2015 8:45:29 AM
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tycho wrote:
In the last few days I've been looking at several country's national strategies and I began asking myself why I couldn't find a published version of Kenya's strategy.

The question was still lingering in my head even when my attention shifted to the study of foot prints. That's when I had this hunch that probably we have little sense of strategy because the Nyayo philosophy has, or was weakened, if not neglected.

I suspect that this philosophy is the best way forward for Kenya and that we should not only revise it but innovate around it to meet our challenges and to forge new pathways.


Can you be more specific? Corruption strategy? political strategy? social strategy?economic strategy?
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limanika
#5 Posted : Monday, December 14, 2015 9:31:33 AM
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You remind me of this book 'nyayo philosophy' As far as i know, Nobody ever read it. If you did pliz tell us what it contained. If there was anything of value therein, then clearly Mo1 didn't believe in what he wrote.
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tycho
#6 Posted : Monday, December 14, 2015 10:00:11 AM
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limanika wrote:
You remind me of this book every college freshman was forced to buy (in early 90s) b4 joining college. As far as i know, Nobody ever read it after enrollment. If you did pliz tell us what it contained. If there was anything of value then clearly Mo1 didn't believe in what he wrote.


I remember reading some of the KANU and Nyayo philosophy books in the nineties, but it was because they were available and I have a habit of not letting a book pass by without my reading it. But then, conditions surrounding me were those of skepticism and perhaps derision to this philosophy. I remember one friend remarking that the Nyayo philosophy was no philosophy at all.

But right now I am remembering the call for peace, love and unity working in a spirit of Harambee- collective national responsibility. Specifically I'm looking at the basis of this call and its truth...

As for evaluating whether Moi followed this philosophy or not;
1. I believe he did
2. His following of it doesn't mean he performed well enough to please all or most of us, but that whichever way he performed, the philosophy in itself provides us with a basis of fair judgment and progression.
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