Forester wrote:We're being colonized a second time
by being hoodwinked with this infrastructure development and now oil/coal exploration. All these Chinese & the West pple care about their own interests, once theyv rap*d our country off its resources, tutabaki uchi
and pay dearly.
@Forester, What you say we do? How about you back up your argument with facts.
Because if you don't, i will accuse you of suffering from mental slavery. The crippling of one's thinking,to the extend on not being ever,have rational thinking.
When your thinking is clouded in fear,emotion/anger, you are colonized.
I will disagree to a very large degree with your assertions.
We are NOT being colonized.
All the infrastructure being developed, is a PLUS for the country.
If development loans for roads,airports,sea ports etc is colonization, how about we close our local banks. I mean, following your analogy, they are colonizing Kenyans by giving them loans to build homes, start businesses etc.
Example:When a gov't like China advances credit to Kenya for Thika Rd or airport expansion, then follows and makes sure those projects are implemented [forget our local cowboy contractors,they need more time in the cold], how is that colonization?
May be you should define colonization for me.
Now i can rush to Thika and back in a few minutes, the expanded JKIA will raise the profile,bringing in more business opportunities. How do you think KQ is going to expand if the airport ain't expanding?
The coal/oil exploration, how do you suggest we go forward? Just chase the explorers? And do what?
You got to know where you are,where you've come from, for you to know where you are going.
Do we have the capital to explore/mine? By capital i mean financial,human and infrastructural. Do we have it?
So far, we don't. But joining hands with those have the capital, in the process we will develop and have ours.
The rest of the world,each has a history stretching thousands of years. Do we have it? Two thousand years ago, where were we?
In short, for us to catch up with the rest of the world, we have to learn from it and learn fast.
If we think without fear and anger, we'll come up with rational decisions for our country,which won't lead us to isolation or irrelevance, but one that will lead us to the path of prosperity.
Norway moved its people to give room for oil exploration and drilling,if that were to be suggested here,what would be the uproar? "We are selling our ancestral lands for oil money" would be the story. that is because most our thinking is not rational.
Do you think Hong Kong or Singapore developed from their own pockets?
Roads are built by consortia whose bank accounts are in far lands. Does that mean they are colonized? Does that mean they don't develop? Every time i read people comparing us and them. If we are to compare us with them, then we got to think like them.
They used other countries' capital to develop. Look where they are,and then look at Kenya.
Remember the time Hellen Sambili rebuffed attempts to name Nyayo stadium Coca Cola? The reason was sovereignty,heritage and all sorts of crap. There was a debate here on wazua,and some people argued how renaming the stadium coca cola would be tantamount to selling our sovereignty,our heritage,our dignity,colonization they said.
How stupid! There we lost a good chance of having a state of the art stadium.
What is that heritage sambili was protecting? Run down facility? Stupidity? If people had thought without fear/emotion,they would have seen that , we were not losing anything, we were to gain.
Heritage is having a good stadium which develops world class sportsmen. NOT having a stadium retain Nyayo as its name. That's NOT patriotism/heritage/sovereignty.
That's having a colonized mind.
Otherwise we can chase every foreign investor, and wallow in want,making do with our taxes and take several times longer, to cover the same dev't we would have,if we engaged the ones with the capital.
Rational thinking devoid of fear/emotion is the magical key.