Re: Not even the East African Federation will bring our misery to an end

Dear Jokanyanam,

I concur with Joseph that there is, and has always been an anti-Luo poise in
Kenya. Meshack had previously succinctly put it thus:

'......There is no time to lead a fully contented life. You out-scheme or are out-schemed. Your life is always in the balance, on tenterhooks; you are always worried, sad, miserable, always looking behind your shoulder'

No Kenyan feels the burden, or the brunt of the an unfulfilled and discontented life than an average Luo. Woe unto you if you as much as aspire to lift your head up, out of the murky waters that is life in kenya. In 2003, when I got a grant to pursue higher studies at a prestigious institution in the U.K, my employer denied me paid leave, but conditionally agreed to give me the same, if I was to pursue the same course at home!

Statistics and common sense, have shown that people qualify faster, and therefore it is cheaper(to the tax-payer at least), for anyone to acquire a higher degree in the U.K than at home. This has been true,at least logistically for some time, and will for a long time now that there is discontent by university teachers. At that time, the guys in charge of study leave in my department were from one ethnic community. Yes, your guess is correct, many people from that community got their paid leave to go, even, to 'north-pole' to do things other than acquire degrees!

You could, of course, get paid-leave at a cost, if you were not from 'the house of .....' if you know what I mean.

The point I'm belabouring here, is that things could be much worse now in other sectors, and yet  many of our people are in total ignorance, waiting for a benevolent government to bail them out of their misery.

I therefore agree with the option of cessession if it can work. My experience in life is that we are, in our world, in a kind of prison or bondage to stronger masters. A biblical or historical analogy may make my point clearer: When the Israelites became slaves to the Egyptians( Genesis; Exodus) the public sentiment in Egypt was that they(Israelis) were rapidly populating the land, and therefore, were an economic and political threat to their hosts. The solution: exterminate them( their males at least) or depot them back to their country.

If you have read the story, it is clear that the latter option was massively resisted by the rulers of Egypt at the time....who was going to build their pyramids(complex/technical work)...do their dirty work(menial or taking risks)?....etc. The challenges of cessession are monumental, as the Israelites came to realise, and even when they were away from their common enemy, in the desert, dissent, revolt and blasphemy against their own leadership nearly capsized the ship before they reached the promised land.

I'm a student of political Discourse; already there are what I'd like to call 'discourses of dissent' among the children of 'Israel' against our chosen leadership, even before the ship even sets course. You read some stupidity from the Awuors and the Tujus and you wonder whether they have ever felt the pain of rejection, insult and even artificial poverty created by fellow Kenyans against other Kenyans simply because they have forever resisited subjugation, or is it because 'ok otergi nyango'? I deem their posture selfserving, self-destructive and just plain stupidity.Surely we cannot apologise for saying the truth.


Circumcision discourse has for a long time been dormant, but is now overt. In public schools, ethnic electronic media, the gutter-press and even in work places you are metaphorically bombarded with thinly veiled attacks that you cannot lead because you are not initiated into adulthood. If this logic is true, then let us form our own independent country where, as 'children' we'll display our own juvenile tendencies. And if this is our bane( perennial infantile self-destructiveness), then we will need to perform a metamorphosis in our own space.

But, when all is said and done, cessession appears worth paying any cost to
achieve.

Long live our Nation, Long live our leaders!
Daniel Onyango


----  Joseph Okumu wrote:
>Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:04:23 -0800 (PST)
>
>Dear All,
>
>   I share similar sentiments with the writer. There is no such thing as a
>Kenyan Nation State.We need strong Regional Autonomies within a Federal
>state with powers over Juduciary, Police, Administration, Economic Policy,
>Taxation and Territorial Army(National Guards).
  . . .