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How our political mentality hurts ability to fix challenges facing us

When Nairobi City County Governor Johnson Sakaja and his Deputy Michiri Njoroge toured the City to access the garbage menace. [Samson Wire. Standard]

I learned recently that, it has been scientifically proven that colonial mentality has affected generations, most of whom never had direct contact with the colonisers.

It has affected our way of life in unshakable ways that are unfathomable. For example, our perception of success, beauty (physical features), advancement, or style, and superior culture, language, and even the food we eat is predicated on the British colonial mentality.

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