Re: [Jambo] [youthagendayln] Fwd: Re: [ccr-kenya] Mining in Kenya

Odhiambo,

The times when we could blame, wazungu, wabeberu, colonialism and neocolonialims for all our miseries and ineptitudes are long gone. In this day and age, one cannot continue to pull the rug over peoples heads by invoking empty rhetoric on Africanism or black pride without backing it up with practical facts. Yes, we are proud to be Africans and black people. Yes, we were colonized, enslaved and suffered at the hands of our oppressors, however, we are not the first people or the first race in the long history of human kind to suffer the same fate. Lets get over it and move on.

Right now we have new enemy; its called hunger, poverty, ignorance and disease. This enemy is proving to be just us or even more cruel the WABEBERU. Even in our fight against Wabeberu, we were helped by some of the same Wazungu, who gave us the education and the ammunition to fight colonialism because they too had some experience fighting oppressors and occupiers.

And now I do not see the problems with wazungu helping us fight the new enemies because they have had problems with the same enemy. Why reinvent the wheel? Wazungu have the resources, the tradition and the culture to run certain big operations better than our people. It does not mean that they are more intelligent and better than us as a people and we do not have to be insecure anymore about things like that because we know we are all the same in that score. However, it only means that they have, the experience, the expertise, the culture and the tradition of producing things en mass.

Mass production is something we really need to serve our growing population and we have to be ready to learn from people who have done it successfully. The large scale farming that Dominion is engaged in requires the kind of resources and expertise that our people must acquire to survive. The traditional farming which left our environment unscathed and our culture and traditions intact are no longer viable. OH YES, there is going to be sacrifices but if we refuse to change, we will parish as a people. If any of these activists have a practical alternative, I would like to hear it.