How Colonial Approval Shapes Kenyan Society

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Very crucially, they are not they're yet to win themselves of the idea that on a fundamental level Mhm. um the West is not their friend. They're yet to win themselves of that idea.

[00:00:14]Like on a very fundamental level. So, it again goes back to what I was saying a few minutes ago. Like that thing of a whole a whole full of like a thousand Africans sitting down and watching this white guy from Europe stand up and just insult their intelligence and nobody dares to push back.

[00:00:34]Not because they don't know better, but because well, somehow you're not supposed to.

[00:00:40]There's this very um there's this colonial idea that has been very very deeply lodged within the Kenyan psyche, you know, in a way that probably hasn't wasn't lodged anywhere else, where it's genuinely seen almost like a badge of honor to be to be like European adjacent, to be approved Mhm. by Europeans. Like I've seen um you know, there's a whole there's a whole online conversation about immigration, for for example.

[00:01:17]So, when that conversation happens on Nigerian or Ghanaian social media, and when it happens on Kenyan social media, there it goes in very different direction.