Ahem. I always feel that our over-fixation with politics at the expense of other activities will be our undoing. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with politics (we all know there is but that's besides the point here), but is it really the only thing? or even the main thing? Take a cursory glance at most of our newspapers in the streets as well as online, quite often the kind of stories they give prominence to are always political. Look at our radio & tv stations, in a 45minute bulletin, they have no qualms allocating a whole 30minutes to pointless politics, often in a way that leaves me asking 'is this all there is in this our land of Kenya?'


I still recall the day I read this story online. Though I admired the story of Omari and his dedication, the real tragedy for me was the fact that it had to take a foreigner from halfway across the world to get the story to me, all the time while our own media were literally asleep a mere 1hour away from where it all happened. Is there a worse indictment on their ineptitude and lopsided priorities than this?

The city hasn't torn us apart,we do it ourselves.
We cannot afford to think communial because in the city,everything revolves around time and decisions must be arrived at fast and actioned.
It's easy to think as 'we' in the village because people embrace the same culture where they are at.
It's however impossible to reason like that in a cosmopolitan city.It's every man for himself and what works best for him.

People don't hate progress,they just hate adapting new ways of doing things and learning 'how to' in order to make life easier.
We would rather stick to the old even if it slows down efficiency /productivity than learn.

@ Tycho,What best defines 'African'? cz if it's weird practices,systems and beliefs then they can die very fast as we swim across the 'oceans'.

eg saw some people in kisii,2 weeks ago holding on to the belief, that making a girl jump over paraphanelia placed at the door step will protect her from conceiving a child before marriage.
And just in case it happens? she gets married off to the oldest bachelor in the village!
What would stop such girls from escaping to town to avoid becoming wives of 50/70 yr old bachelors?
Another from ate a child in the name of culture.
Such beliefs are outdated.

We should be able to create our own animations.
The few black ones I have watched contain themes revolving around poverty,witchcraft,sicknesses; cholera,malaria,abuse-mashida tu =makes kids develop an inferior attitude towards the society.

Raise up confident kids who believe they can be what they desire to be and change the world for better and you will see how they talk.

The problem is that we have been brainwashed to believe that Africa is a hell hole plagued by all manner of problems and that the rest of the world is a paradise. You just need to read abit of history (and current affairs) to realise that worse conditions have occurred elsewhere. Even in Europe the situation was much worse not so long ago. You can read about feudal europe, the black death, cholera in europe, irish famine, slums in europe, world wars (70m were killed in WW2 just 70yrs ago!), bosnia, Kosovo, syria, beirut, afghanistan, Korea, Niajin massacre carried out by the japanese on the chinese,israel/palestine, india/pakistan, annihilation of the indigenous peoples of the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, latin america etc etc.