The Shortcut Kind of life In Kenya

We Should Learn to Rise Above Hate, Ethnicity and Corruption... (pic from twitter)

In Kenya, nothing and no one is valueless. In this case, everything in Kenya has a price. The simple reality of life has made it easy for corruption to get out of hand. In those day, a little of something, was a word commonly used for people to get something done quickly--- avoiding the tedious queues and tribalism and other negativeness. 

Nowadays however, it is almost mandatory to part with something big (not little anymore) if you want to get where you have a right to. And it is no longer a game of wits, use of secret language and whatever means to pass on a message, but the situation is bad that someone would just plainly tell you to bribe for something worthy getting. Damn, what a life! 

Tribal-kings leading a difficult nation,

The baldness of tribalism if ‘bribalism’--- if this word can fit better to represent rampant corruption—which is already on the too much for anyone to handle. Our good leaders always promise to eliminate corruption but nothing happens because they know Kenyans loves to hear this song with a different tune every now and then. This is a weakness that politicians know is a clear ticket to high offices in the country. Tribal leaders gave birth to ‘me, myself and I’ which runs through tribal blood stream. Anyone else, however qualified, is a no-body until a large parcel of something is exchanged for services.

Are we happy about this?

There is just one word that can make a difference in Kenya! The word is ‘WE’. If we learn to work together, corruption and other social evils will cease to exist. If we say ‘No’ to being mislead, we gonna salvage the country that is now in SORRY STATE. If we join hands for better tomorrow, no one will be left out in national building. We are strong when we are united. Politicians know this much better, that is why they do not want this to happen. We have nothing to lose when we become united… It is just a matter of our forgetfulness that makes us vulnerable to all social evils in our beloved country Kenya.

Kenyan Do Not Hate Each Other, They Just Forget Working Together...

You don't have to attack someone just for pleasure or personal gain (Pic from Tweep)

It seems like Kenyans are the only people in the world who love to be reminded of who they are very often. They are good in forgetting the most important things in life: who they are, what they are, and why they deserve gratefulness in what they do best.

Why do they forget easily?

The simple explanation to this forgetfulness is the fact that they allow unworthy things to haunt their minds. In this case, wrong ideas take prudence over important ideas hence blurring those good thoughts, leaving their curious minds yearning for more insane clues in life. That is why politicians have always won against the best mind sin Kenya. They very well know Kenyans have a problem and they do their level best to manipulate this simple weakness for their own personal gain.

The fact that majority of Kenyans are being brainwashed to follow the known do-no-good leader; explain why these humans need a constant reminder that might do a little to change their mind. They dwell too much is negative issues and they do not like the sense of reality. The more they learn to work together, the more they get disintegrated to seeing evil in other people as they remain entwined in political negativity. And in most cases, the loss of their likelihood to know who they are and what they are capable of.

Why Work Together?

In order to salvage our great nation, we have to change for better. See people as they are-- not as we are advised to treat them by shallow minded leaders. We have to accept that our ways of life defines everything that might come along. Love is the conqueror of every evil in life. 

Lets not forget the reward of a good idea towards others.. 

The Third-force Shakes The Veteran Political Parties In Kenya

Ababu Namwamba addressing the political gathering as he prepares to launch the new political party  

A little known dooms-time continues to haunt the likes of veteran politicians as a new wave, as hurricane of great minds joining forces to force up due changes well deserving in the current Kenya. The fact that Kenyans are tired of repetition of odds has made it clear for some Kenyans to think wider than just the two horses which accounts to all failures and misplaced chances for new Kenya and the generations to come.

The last time I checked, Kenya is still being left out from other developing world due to bad politics and leadership thereafter. It is not a wonder why some of us prefer not to line-up or queue up in the coming general elections just because we wanna make someone a happy man or woman in an elective post, while knowing very well that these people are the same guys who have been there for ages--- in most cases camouflaging themselves in new political parties.

The current wave, if stable like how it seems to be, is one promising move that will one day shape Kenya the way we all intend to. The Kenya we need is a negative of Jubilee Party guys and their counterparts from the main political alliance--- CORD. We likes of Raila Odinga, Moses Wetangula and the wiper guy have almost nothing to give Kenya, if we take history out of it. And the same goes to the ruling Party guys who like boasting about everything then wish they could have accomplished, only that  they believe Kenyans are in debt for great leadership they are offering.

While Ababu Namwamba guy is being blamed for breaking up with the grandpa of Kenyan politics, hopefully Kenyans will come to realize that they have a great nation that do not need veteran politicians to dictate how things should be done year in year out. In fact, we need great minds to work together to destabilize the front runners in political arena before pointing a finger at the mess we already fear before it becomes real. However, we have to worry about something! What?

Oops! Unless the third force is capable of making things shake and tumble over, it might turn out to be just like a junk can for the lost hearts. In this case, if the third force is not well prepared to take on the two front runners then it might be just like a junkyard for the lost lots---- making things more disorganized. 

When do love become replaced by so much hate?

Anger and brutality 

For quite sometime now,news of a lover killing his or her love or a husband killing a wife and vice versa has become part of us in the society with these heinous acts continue to rise at a very alarming rate.The most recent incident is that of a fresh graduate being brutally murdered by her boyfriend with claims that she had threatened to dump him.

This is just one of the many incidents that our news people have been reporting yet even as shocking as they may be,we still tend forget and move on.The sad part is most of these incidents involve our young people especially the college material whom the society brands as grown-ups who know what is right and wrong and after all are aware what they are doing.But my take on this is,does going to the university or even a college mean that  you are on your own as parents now think you are of age.

For two young young people to have a close relationship that blossoms into love,then its obvious they know this is part of life that will take them places.Then the question is why do most young lovers think that if they disagree to the extent of parting ways that death is the only solution?They need to know being in a romantic relationships exposes them to open fields of quarrels or fights but by the end of it all,how they go about tackling the problems at hand matters a lot.

The young people need to know that if you break up with your love,you ought to be positive about it for you to be ready to move on.A broken relationship is still part of life and who knows may be this relationship was after-all a hindrance to better things in store for you.

So I think such sad  incidents should not slip from our minds so fast and as parents and the lecturers for our young people in colleges or universities,we have a role to play.By this I mean the young people need to have counselling sessions in the learning institutions and this is where parents come in due to financing such sessions.After all young people need guidance in most aspects of life.

We are parents of today and with one voice,we are good to go

they go wrong because of parental failures

Just a few days ago,we awoke to the most shocking news here in my country of a thirteen year old  who allegedly stabbed to death an eleven year old girl.There were reports that his actions were after the girl refused to give in to his sexual advances.This is so sad,an incident that came along with hard to answer questions and it brought a circle of nightmares because the two youngsters belonged to families that were friends.

This is an incident that may have caught many off-guard but to some extent it is a wake-up call to make us realize that our children as young as they may be,are capable of anything.As per our education curriculum,a thirteen year old is still in his primary school level of education and has few more years before completion of education.But the question here,what does this boy think he knows and for surely feels he need to have.

Even as we say times are changing,we need to step up our roles as parents.This is not the time to tell your daughters that they should not play with boys and to your sons that they are too young to comprehend romance issues.It is now obvious that sex education is important to our children and so as parents its our role to talk to our children on this issue.What’s more we should not leave everything  to the teachers since there is a lot more that ought to be done.

As parents we ought to know that parenting is not only watching your child grow up into a young man or woman but there is more to growing up.Parenting should now be taken seriously like a  full-time job that should have lots of energies channeled through.Even as want our children to grow up into responsible and successful adults,we should also take time to enlighten them more in terms of the bodily changes that came about in different phases of their life.For example a child who is orally exposed on what puberty is all about is better placed than one who has no one to tell him or her about these issues.