Kenya to Introduce Chinese Syllabus in its Education Curriculum Starting in 2020

Ngai! Nisamehe naomba!

Good move. Too hard to ignore Chinese and it's role

One more step in the take over of Kenya by the Chinese all because Ushuru is timid when he engages with the Chinese.

Where is the leadership? This is not what Kenyans voted for!

Pombe tu.

There we go. We had this discussion recently and I mentioned to you all what the next Kenyan syllabus will entail. I rightly predicated that it will be based on Chinese syllabus and learning Chinese language will be a requirement. Chinese are in Africa to stay. The African mind has been dormant for over two thousand years and the Communist Chinese leadership knows. They are operating in Kenya as British did when they first got there. The British gave Kenyans beads in exchange of land. The Chinese are giving us railway and tarmacked roads in exchange of our sovereignty. They are emptying their male jailbirds in our cities so that they can intermarry with African prostitutes with a hope of creating a new Afro-Chinese tribe that can one day take over the leadership. China is planting Chinese flags in our schools and transports systems in order to condition our children's minds. In Congo the Chinese destroying equatorial forest in exchange of bicycles. Africa needs divine intervention so that its alcoholic and sleeping leadership can be awakened

And can we also retain our vernacular language curriculum too boys and girls in the Ministry of Education??

If we have to learn Mandarin so we can ask the Chinese in their language to stop eating our dogs and killing our wildlife so be it. They(Chinese) still operate SGR so I would hope this new education system will teach our young ones how to build and operate SGR. Mwene Nyaga help us and curse the Kenyan sellouts who work with foreigners to betray their own country.

I just said " The F" loudly, my sentiments!

We should protest us the wananchi seriously!If you thought the British Colonizers were worse, here comes the real devil. Uhuru needs to resign NOW! Where is the opposition , OMG!

I expected Kenya to follow suit of Uganda where dictator Museveni initialed to Please the Grant financier of Africa - China.

More African countries will follow suit as well which will pass the message to the USA to be fair in the game - otherwise face the consequences.

Overall both the USA and China competition in Africa market will be a good thing for rapid development in Africa on a long-term goal.

This is where we need the AU so bad to be a the bargaining market power for the Continent and uniting the peace accord to foster the development for all nations within.

Nimekata tamaa - (I have given up). Jamani, kwa nini viongozi wetu wametufanya kuwa maabara (laboratory) ya dunia nzima?

Where is the leadership? We learned English without a foreseen road map and without someone explaining why. Atleast at the time we were a colonized nation. Where did that English take our people. We became slaves of the West. We worked hard to pay for a dead end Education. That English divided our families. Most of our relatives are in the west working so hard to take care of the elderly in the west thereby abandoing their elderly and their own lives. Our fathers became slaves of the west buying books and empty education. Attaining degrees and becoming watchmen, engineers who cannot engineer anything. Where is the Balance Sheet from our government to tell us what we have achieved using English and why now we must abandon it and start Chinese. Can the government tell us what is to be achieved with this or are our children being prepared to be future slaves that will take care of the Chinese old population that will soon not be able to sustain itself because it does not have replacement. Let our leaders re- think this strategy before it puts to waste our resources and our children's time. In that curriculum, the Chinese will introduce their religion- Confucius (Which will further confuse our people). This is a recipe for failure. Kenyan's wake up, we studied English but never became English men or white, instead we became a confused lot and neither will we become Chinese. We will become a new confused lot. Let us take what little we have and start developing local languages. Who will be next, German, Italy,Arab?How many languages are we going to learn before we drop dead? There is no language that is better than any other. All languages have one purpose, communication and tranfer of ideas. Today, we trade with all other countries but we do not take their language as our own. We can still trade with Chinese without making them masters of our souls. No wonder we are called monkeys by the Chinese, Niggers and shit holes by the west, graveyard by the Russians. Who are we? Someone came and gave us a God, changed our names,told us how to talk and how to think and now we are looking to be given a new God, we will be told how to talk, we will be given new thinking and religion. Who are we? When and how will this stop? God give Kenya leaders not politicians! God help Kenya!!

WHY SHOULD KENYAN YOUNG STUDENTS BE SUBJECTED TO 4 LANGUAGES--MOTHER TONGUE, SWAHILI,ENGLISH AND NOW MANDARIN..WHILE CHINEESE LEARN JUST TWO LANGUAGES IN THEIR SCHOOLS-ENGLISH AND CHUNESE..THYE DESPISE AFRICANS SO MUCH..ALSO IF WE MUST HAVE IT, WHY DONT WE TREAT IT LIKE GERMAN, ARABIC AND FRENCH? WHY BURDEN KIDS WHEN THEY ARE JUST BEGINNING TO LEARN AND MASTER ENGLISH WHY SUBJECT SMALL MINDS TO SO MANY LANGUGES,, DROP ENGLISH THEN IF YOU THINK MANDARIN IS SO IMPORTANT.. UGANDA HAS JUST TWO LANGUGES TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS-MOTHER TONGUE AND ENGLISH WHILE SOUTH AFRICA ALSO HAS MOTHER TONGUE AND ENGLISH SO THEY CAN ADD ANOTHER LANGUAGE..BUT AGAIN UGANDA NEVER WANTS TO BURDEN YOUNG STUDENTS THUS THEIR MANDARIN BEGINS IN HIGH SCHOOL,,LET OUR KIDS MASTER ENGLISH , SWAHILI AND MOTHER TONGUE FIRST THEN INTRODUCE CHINESE IN HIGH SCHOOL IF YOU MUST, LIKE UGANDA HAS DONE..THE UK AND USA OFFER IT JUST THE WAY WE OFFER ARABIC, GERMANY AND FRENCH HERE, ITS NOT MANDATORY. THIS IS CHINA'A PROPAGANDA.. WHAT IS SO SPECIAL WITH CHINESE.. YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW AFRICANS ARE TREATED IN CHINA..

Chinese is another foreign language just like English. I'm currently trying to learn it. What's so special about kizungu? Ching chyong ngying @imara. Hata kiswahili ni sawa.

I believe that it is mandatory to learn chinese in Uganda.From what Iam reading in the article,the Kenyan side appears optional.Ihope that it is the case.Lets say that in 15 ntsyears there will be 6 million Kenyans speaking mandarin,will they all benefit from this language?
Next to come or imposed on students will be taoims,and buddhism.
Think we are giving up alot for these loans.

The new master has landed. Just like the old one. No more nyama za mbuzi. From now onwards the schools will be ordering takeouts chinese food. Kenyans have a little pride on your culture. Stop selling out everything including your kids and the kitchen too.

Ndugu@Njai. Kusema kweli leo nimekasirika sana. Kwa nini? Viongozi wetu wataanza kutuheshimu lini? Ningependa kujua, ni nani aliyeamua tufuate mtaala (curriculum) wa masomo kutoka nchi ya Uchina? Bunge letu liko wapi? Kwa nini limenyamaza na huku Wachina wameanza kututawala tena kama Waingereza walivyofanya?

Sijui kama ni kweli; lakini nilisoma mahali fulani ya kwamba Wachina walipojenga barabara ya Nairobi/Thika, waliwafanya wasichana mimba halafu wakatoroka na kurudi Uchina! Watoto hawa na mama zao wanapata taabu kweli.

Biashara baina ya nchi ya Marekani na Uchina ni dola bilioni 636 (636,000,000) kwa mwaka. Sioni watoto wa Kimarekani wakilazimishwa kujifunza Kichina shuleni. Kujifunza Kichina kutawasaidia nini? Hawawezi kukaa kwa usalama wakienda Uchina kwa sababu Wachina ni "wabaguzi wa rangi" kuliko Waingereza!

Ningependa Uhuru atueleze kwa nini anatuuza kwa Wachina na huku tumeshapata uhuru!

Waswahili husema, "Kuishi kwingi ni kuona mengi." Nilifurahi sana 12/12/1963 tulipopata uhuru kutoka kwa Waingereza. Sikujua ya kwamba viongozi wetu (Uhuru na mkristo - Ruto) watatuuza kwa Wachina bila kutujulisha!

Nimekasirika na pia nimekata tamaa kabisa. Maisha yangu yamekuwa kutawaliwa, kupewa majina ya kigeni, dini ya kigeni, kujifunza lugha za kigeni, kufuata sherehe za kigeni (foreign celebrations) na mila za kigeni. Kwa kifupi, MIMI NI MTUMWA (I am a slave).

NI NANI ATAKAYETUKOMBOA (save us) KUTOKA UTUMWANI WA PILI?

Samahani: Bilioni 636 ni 636,000,000,000 yaani sifuri (zero) tisa.

Once a copy cat always a copy cut. What now sounds like an option may be a required course by January 2020. There is nothing wrong with learning a new language, but entrenching it in our education system we are borrowing more than just the money. Its like the bank asking for a commercial endorsement after you get a loan. We are getting comfortable and soon we will be hooked to kasumba ya "free money" and after that they can dictate the terms. Language is the first weapon of the colonizers. They say "Language is a powerful weapon, and in the hands of a skilled person, it can be used to manipulate".

hehehehe wr all talking,speaking,writing this shit stinking evil mzungu language known as english so when i see many especially in diaspora yapping about why chinese language i pity them juu they like to see one side?We could have atleast remained with swahili thou its arab language too but atleast it arrived b4 all other foreign stinking colonisers languages!I will chinese too aslong as we have english which is not ours.I rest my case.

STUPID THOUGHT!!!!!!!

It's another way of creating job opportunities for the Chinese in Kenya. I feel sorry for the kids growing up home and more so for our people who have to put up with this rot. What's up with Uhuru? I saw him the other day giving an interview in which he was seemingly under the influence and he boldly stated he will continue to borrow and borrow as in his view, in the name of development. Questions: Which development and at whose expense?

@Mkenya halisi, you have a point in your analysis, likini your delivery is a bit sour. You appear to dislike all diasporas the way you put your points across. I think the world is a global place now as opposed to when the West colonised Africa. Slavery is no more and we are better informed, so to see the Chinese trying to sneak through the backyard and colonise the colonised is an insult to our forefathers. However, WE have to take accountability from our inactions for, dare I say Nairobi/Mombasa faired well infrastructure wise when the Mzungu's were on? Controversial but a FACT. I doubt Sonko would know how to change a light bulb let alone to understand the engineering that goes into running the capital city or mobilising resources to ensure services are running well. Come to think of it, maybe they need to put these Chinese at City hall and in charge of running the water company, electricity, street lighting etc.... Nairobi is a STINK hole, a shadow of it's former self. Milking the poor and wasting the youth's talent and education...that's whey they opt to immigrate to the West. Clearer now MK?

We often wonder what transpired between initial meeting between Africans and the Europeans and colonization. We often think deception, coercion, or even military inferiority as reasons we ended up being subjugated. However, the latest development in the on-going Kenya-China relationship in the modern era shows you that we may be incorrect. We can sit here and argue why we Africans tend to be vulnerable to others but the fact remains kuna kasoro pahali. We never learn. We can no also just throw the blame on bad leaders. Kwani the came from another continent? Don't we just choose them or rise from among us and/or maintained by us. We don't even have the guts to protest when these things are done by politicians, or when government officials "lose" billions of shillings, but when our local politician is attacked, we go nuts and insult and kill each other. I used to think we Kenyans are so busy trying to make a living or just indifferent but watch mtu akishout "mwizi" and you won't even know watu wametoka wapi in the middle of the day. Also check comment sections on something like gay issues. Bottom line, we lack long-term vision as Kenyans and our politics are petty. I don't know how this can be fixed. I see it like a character flaw, rather than unfortunate set of circumstance, which I had just assumed was what befell our ancestors about 125 years ago.

@Mkenya Halisi:

Uliandika: "... We could have at least remained with Swahili thou its Arab language..."

Si kweli Ndugu, lugha ya Kiswahili ni lugha ya Kibantu hata ingawa imekopa msamiati (vocabulary) kutoka kwenye lugha nyingine kama Kiarabu, Kiingereza, Kiajemi (Persian), hata pia Kihindi.

Je, unajua ya kwamba, lugha zote za kimataifa (international languages) zimekopa msamiati kutoka lugha nyingine? Lugha ya Kimataifa ya Kiingereza imekopa kiasi cha asilimia themanini (80%) ya msamiati wake kutoka kwenye lugha nyingi za dunia! Nahau (grammar)ya lugha ya Kiswahili ni ya Kibantu.