Stop Digging, We are in Deep Hole

Kenya, mama Kenya, are we a cursed lot? The new millennium seemed to have smiled on us only to realize six years down the road that all our hopes were anchored on quick sand. Our country of enormous potential has become a captive of selfish politicians masquerading as leaders. Tribalism has become our bane and if your name or accent doesn't betray your ethnic roots, one is prompted to enquire your dad or grandfather's home town for a clue of your ethnicity.

Our so-called leaders are a shameless lot to say the least. Strictly speaking they have no trace of leadership hosted in their sadistic shells for human beings. Their sense of memory is totally impaired and what they claim to do in our interest amounts to nothing but abusing our collective intelligence as Kenyans. Look around you and show me one honest Kenyan politician and I will bequeath you all my earthly possessions. This is no empty rhetoric nor just a hollow challenge but I am sure of retaining my meagre belongings at the end of the bet.



Ours is the only country ruled by dinosaurs who pretend to know everything while foolishly priding themselves in being graduates of Makerere. Granted, Makerere used to be the regional Harvard-equivalent. But to stick you head in the 21 century and shamelessly shape our national destiny on academic models of yester-millennium, is not only naive but the height of intellectual dishonesty at best and plain stupidity at worse.



We are all slaves to thieves of the last generation who control every aspect of our lives. Anytime they pretend to be making things move, they only succeed in sending smokescreens to maintain the status quo. We need and must have a rejuvenation and redefinition of our nationhood. The last 40 years is wasted and the less we mourn about it the better. We must have our eyes and energies singularly trained on the price of the wider picture that is the forest and stop entertaining the plastic view of the detracting trees. Need I say more? I bet not lest I spoil the broth, arise Kenya, arise.



Taabu