Social media posts have shared sexually explicit cartoons alongside a claim they feature in Kenyan schoolbooks as part of the current curriculum. But the claim is false: the excerpts are not found in Kenyan textbooks and come from two old and unrelated publications. AFP Fact Check already debunked a false claim related to the pictures in 2019.

On November 8, 2022, a Facebook post shared a page from a book titled “This is called making love”, alongside an illustration of a man and a woman in bed.

“Is this the CBC you wanted your children to learn?” reads the Swahili caption, referring to the Competency-Based Curriculum launched by Kenya in 2017.

A screenshot of the false Facebook post, taken on November 18, 2022

A similar claim on Twitter retweeted more than 1,000 times was shared with the question: “Is this still CBC?”

A screenshot of the false tweet, taken on November 18, 2022

Another tweet shared a similar claim with illustrations displaying the childbearing process from conception to birth.

“CBC is responsible not me,” a tweet replying to a commentator sharing a positive pregnancy test claimed – jokingly attributing the positive test to the syllabus and including an excerpt of the books as proof.

A screenshot of the false Twitter post, taken on November 18, 2022

New curriculum

The Kenyan government under former president Uhuru Kenyatta introduced the CBC in 2017 to replace the so-called 8-4-4 system, which saw students spend eight years in primary school, four in...

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