Am actually struggling with the acceptance of certain things am witnessing in my country. Am not understanding. Is it really true that non of our 38 million Kenyans has a solution to the perennial food and water problem in our country? Is it true that there is no inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, sociologist, seer, philosopher or geologist out there who can provide direction or a lasting solution? Is it true that we have inculcated the vision of thin, pale and wasted country men, women and children eating wild fruit and nuts and drinking brown water such that it doesn't bother us any more? Is it true that we are not bothered by such images or of news of our young people dying of hunger?
Really is it true that we cannot harness rain water, or redirect rivers to farmlands or areas of constant drought? Is there no sociologist out there with the training, talent or passion to socialize us out of attachment to subdividing land also called ancestral and focusing on viable land leasing for agriculture. Is there some funny law in Kenya or some funny international treaty that prohibits us from pumping waters from lake victoria, turkana, naivasha etc to dry lands of mwingi, turkana and wajir? Is it true that we cannot hold a fund raising or harambee to help invest in these initiatives. Are we truly prisoners of corruption to an extent that we cannot be trusted with moneys meant for common good? is it true that we dont understand what common good means? Are genetically modified crops truly more dangerous than famine , hunger and death by malnutrition like certain NGOs tell us? Must we eat ugali made out of maize floor? is it true that we, 38 million + Kenyans are unable to feed ourselves, that white people have an eternal responsibility for our livelihood and that they must provide us food when our rains fail? who will confirm to me that we indeed need constant rain for our agriculture to succeed?
am struggling, really struggling ...
I think the answer to this goes back to your post on "leadership". That's what we're lacking in Kenya. We have a bunch of people up there who are more interested in what their positions can get them instead of what these positions can enable them to do for the country. Until we get our priorities right, we'll be chasing our tail for a long time.
ReplyDeleteYou put it so well. but i believe we have some bright chap somewhere in kenya who can sort us out.
ReplyDeleteOd-true. Look at us, living on the equator and using water instead of the sun to generate electricity...
ReplyDeleteWe have bright chaps all right...but we just won't vote them in because they are from the "wrong" tribe. The dinosaurs inhabiting top posts for eons are there for one reason: we let them.
ReplyDeleteFor me, am focusing on what i can do at my level. the little idea or effort that can make a difference. I am persuaded that the solution lies in the 38million + Kenyans here or in the diaspora
ReplyDeleteBad governance. It is a pity that Kenyans will still vote the same leaders come next election. We need a change of administration, something different from the selfish lot we have in the government right now.
ReplyDeleteIn Kenya it's not what you can do for your country but what you can get from it, that's the creed our rulers go by.
ReplyDelete@bomseh, why do we elect the same bad leaders? We cant we trust that someone else would do it better?
ReplyDelete@acolyte, what i keep on wondering is how these 'leaders' change. am convinced that the actually do not, its just that the Kenyan has made bad governance and coruption part of the culture.they are normaly corrupt even before we elect them