Obama Countdown Clock to Election Victory
Is he electable? Yes he is! Can we elect him? Yes we can! 12 days to and we are still in deep prayers. We say everything is possible with hard work and determination. Baraka is the blessing of this world. God bless you my brother and God bless Michelle and her children as America and the whole world prepare to the long waited historic moment. Barack for President!
Please drop the word Mamsahib!
Did you know that workers at the famous Impala ranch still address their bosses in the colonial style? Workers at Impala ranch are intensively trained to keep and inherit the slave master relationship between the white employer and the worker. My personal experience are fetched from the time I worked for Impala farm(Sharon and her brother Ken). I also have a lot of neighbours and relatives who, in generations, have toiled in very inhuman conditions and extremely low salaries.
Because of poor governance in Kenya, this Kenyans can not think of breaking away from colonialism in the fear of offending their master. I worked one month for Sharon and she tried to treat me the way she does to her disadvantaged workers. I remember one day, at a HIV training forum in Nanyuki Cortage hospital when Ken (Impala farm manager),literally went crazy on me because I opposed and revolted against bad treatment from I am.
It was my first time to personally experience such a cruelty from the white settlers. I was very curios though to learn how they mistreat their workers. After the workshop,Ken and Sharon drove away with all their longtime serving workers and left me in town.
Because I had an alternative, I went my way to acquired myself a new job. My cousins, relatives and all the disadvantaged men and women in Laikipia don’t have the opportunity to choose. They are victims of the situation. Without a proper workers union to advocate for them, this workers are simply objectified and wasted by those who own their land.
During this Heroes day, My thoughts goes to those workers who are forced to play with the colonial rules so that their families survive economical and political injustice in Kenya. Workers in these ranches must be given an alternative so that they can participate in creating opportunities to influence their lives.
Those of you who were fortunate enough to have attended school, and are employed by the settlers, must actively contribute towards personal empowerment of all individuals and their families working in the ranches. You are required to unite and create a workers union so that you can represent yourself in improving your living standards, your salaries, your working conditions and insurances. The employer is also en tittled to paying your pension.
The money you save with the employer for having worked for him all those years is paid to you when you get old. If you lost your job before your pension, you are entitled to compensation for the years you’ve worked. Your employer must be able to provide all this privileges to you. However, the defining factor hear, is that workers should be aware of their rights. Your your ignorance is very beneficial to your boss while it gradually kills you and negatively affect Kenya’s transformation process out of the colonial period. I do not dare talk about the post colonial because I am sure that Mukogodo and Laikipia has seen very little of the freedom we are supposed to be celebrating today!
However,the best way to participate in emancipation, is by registering a workers union for all people working with wildlife conservancies and other animal sanctuaries, settler ranches and other big landowners. Many families who live in their place of work have children who are forced to stay out of school because there isn’t any in the ranch. The mainstream administration should also intervene because this workers are suffering as a result of our national history. The colonial influence inherited by this workers also affects our national ability for the common man to fully participate in bringing about change in our political, social and economic areas.
The more ignorant people are,the better for the greedy capitalists but catastrophic for the national!
Happy Heroes Day!
Maasaiwarrior from Laikipia(Mukogodo-Ilpolei)
Barack Obama on Colin Powell’s Endorsement General Colin Powell endorsesment to Obama came at last. Honestly, I warried alot that he might not do it but then, Powell is known to have been very disssatisfied with how the Iraki’s war … Continue reading
Barack Obama on Colin Powell’s Endorsement
General Colin Powell endorsesment to Obama came at last. Honestly, I warried alot that he might not do it but then, Powell is known to have been very disssatisfied with how the Iraki’s war was handled by the Bush administration. On the other hand, Mccain claims to have more than 200 veterans endorsing him. Although all endorsements are significant, in my opinion, general Collin Powell’s endorsement to Obama is way above all others. We cross our fingers for Obama! We can’t wait to the D-day.
Kenyatta Day(October 20th)Heroes Day. Kenyas celebration for heroes who gave their lives for freedom. This is one of the most important celebrations in Kenya. The Diaspora Community of Kenya even thing that it’s more important for them since in this occasions, Kenyans come together as a union,a diversified nation and as a people with common interrest.
The Kenyan Embassy shall not fail to finance this national celebration for its citizens in Diaspora. If Russia could go against the EU and the NATO to “defend” it’s “citizens” in Georgia how about Kenya which is in peace with Sweden and Kenyans in Sweden?
Couldn’t Kenya give as that little celebration? Our children born outside Kenya needs to be brought up in an environment where the history of Kenya is celebrated continuously.
It gives them culture and a sense of belonging.
Or are the Kenyans in Sweden at war with the Kenyan Embassy and Nairobi administration? Is the Embassy tired of us?
If it’s due to lack of finance, why hasn’t the Kenyan Ambasador in Sweden come out to let Kenyans know about it?. Or have the Embassy prepared a “private” Heroes day? Could it be what the blogger at http://www.butdoisay.wordpress.com as private dinner? But the I am left wandering if the butdoisay blogger has become of another class than that which ksb calls “the “Odiangabucks”? Haha!
We are asking this questions since we haven’t gotten any invitation to our Heroes day! What happened? Is Kenya not caring anymore the legacy of those who gave us freedom?
Haven’t I paid enough tax? For the last obe year, the writer of this blog has sent about Swedish kronor 80 000 approximately 700 000 ksh of which the government of Kenya tax through value added tax.
I have functioned on the place of the Kenyan government as a very well wishing social welfare system for more than 20 individuals.
I have represented Kenya both abroad and at home as a good will ambassador a thing that Kenyans in Diaspora shares. Are we not important enough?
Last year’s Kenyatta day was full of controversy. Kenyans were looking forward to have a better well organized Kenyatta day for all Kenyans this year. Why isn’t there any update in the embassy’s homepage?
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Dreamers by Janyse featuring Barack Obama – Forward to Friends then Download this Song at Janyse.com for Free!
How beautiful to hear this and what a magnificent combination of both rythem and word! The souls of those who spearheaded this path like, Rosa Parks,Malcom X, MLK JR are touched where ever they are.You might think that so many of the dreams you carry with you are never realized. If so, then you are refusing to be realistic! If Obama has been able to achieve the dreams of his father and those of many men and women who were enslaved for more than 400 years, why not you and I? I don’t know about you coz for me, the dream about this close to becoming a reality. Obama is the Joshua who will take us from the mountain top down to the promised land. Lets all join hand and off to the new world where all men share equal opportunity to influencing their lives. Where all children are treated as equals and where all men can dialoque even in tímes of war..
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