Re: Scots demand independence from Britain

01/17/2007
GRANTS ARCHIVES AGAJA KUYO BARUPE WECHE DONGRUOK MBAKA NONRO JEXJALUO NGECHE LUO GI GWENG' THUM TEDO LUO KITGI GI TIMBEGI SIGENDNI LUO THUOND WECHE ;	Re: Scots demand independence from Britain http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070116/wl_uk_afp/britainpolitics_070116191050 As a very keen supporter of new states as a solution to most of our social, economic, and political problems in Africa, I found the above report very interesting. I couldn't pass the oportunity to forward it to you. Even the Scots, after 300 years in Britain, want to go their own way. Unbelievable, isn't it? This leads me to my perpetual outcry, why not us? Why do we continue to hang on to our African states that are artificial and unworkable? Why do we continue to languish in unstable states that have given us nothing but poverty, misery, violence, wars? States that were imposed on us by colonial powers? States which are still controlled by the former colonial powers and their African collaborators? Instead of merely seeking to democratize existing African states, a tall order, going by the back-rolling of recent democratic gains in Africa under the leadership of Mwai Kibaki in Kenya, Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Olesegun Obasanjo in Nigeria, to mention only a few, why don't we also explore other alternatives that might lead to better and more viable states that might produce better leadership and make our lives more meaningful and worth living? The Indians and Pakistanis did it in 1947. Bangladeshis did it in 1971. And so on. People elsewhere in other continents are perpetually exploring alternative state formations? The Scots are neither the first nor the last to agitate for their own God-given right to live in a state of their own choice. We can do the same and, you know what, we can end up with some incredibly beautiful, workable, viable states in our own continent. If we don't do that, we will continue suffering at the hands of tribalistic dictators like Mwai Kibaki and their masters in Washington, DC, Paris, London, Brussels, and so on. NB/ By the way, whenever I talk about new states, I do not necessarily mean that it has to be a purely Luo state. It can be a multi-ethnic state bringing together, say, the Luo and the Kalenjin, the Luo and the Abaluhya, the Luo and the Abagusii, the Luo-Kalenjin, Abaluhya, etc, if that is possible. If not, I will settle for a Luo state that is more coherent and viable than the artificial Kenyan state that has impoversihed us and wrecked our lives. Meshack Owino. ===================================================== Joluo.com Ka in gi mari moro ma di wandik ka to orni Akelo nyar Kager, jaluo@jaluo.com Daher winjo dwondi in bende, iwinjo?	IDWARO TICH? INJILI GOSPEL GALAMORO : Riwruok mar JOLUO e Piny Ngima, orwaku uduto mondo ubed e kanyakla mar burani. Ornwa nyingi gi nondi kaka obedo. Riwruok e teko joka Nyanam. WENDO MIWA PARO OD PAKRUOK

Re: Scots demand independence from Britain

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070116/wl_uk_afp/britainpolitics_070116191050

As a very keen supporter of new states as a solution to most of our social, economic, and political problems in Africa, I found the above report very interesting. I couldn't pass the oportunity to forward it to you. Even the Scots, after 300 years in Britain, want to go their own way. Unbelievable, isn't it?

This leads me to my perpetual outcry, why not us? Why do we continue to hang on to our African states that are artificial and unworkable? Why do we continue to languish in unstable states that have given us nothing but poverty, misery, violence, wars? States that were imposed on us by colonial powers? States which are still controlled by the former colonial powers and their African collaborators?

Instead of merely seeking to democratize existing African states, a tall order, going by the back-rolling of recent democratic gains in Africa under the leadership of Mwai Kibaki in Kenya, Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Olesegun Obasanjo in Nigeria, to mention only a few, why don't we also explore other alternatives that might lead to better and more viable states that might produce better leadership and make our lives more meaningful and worth living? The Indians and Pakistanis did it in 1947. Bangladeshis did it in 1971. And so on. People elsewhere in other continents are perpetually exploring alternative state formations? The Scots are neither the first nor the last to agitate for their own God-given right to live in a state of their own choice.

We can do the same and, you know what, we can end up with some incredibly beautiful, workable, viable states in our own continent. If we don't do that, we will continue suffering at the hands of tribalistic dictators like Mwai Kibaki and their masters in Washington, DC, Paris, London, Brussels, and so on.

NB/ By the way, whenever I talk about new states, I do not necessarily mean that it has to be a purely Luo state. It can be a multi-ethnic state bringing together, say, the Luo and the Kalenjin, the Luo and the Abaluhya, the Luo and the Abagusii, the Luo-Kalenjin, Abaluhya, etc, if that is possible. If not, I will settle for a Luo state that is more coherent and viable than the artificial Kenyan state that has impoversihed us and wrecked our lives.

Meshack Owino.