By Murigi Ndung’u
As Kenyans celebrate their freedom
from the colonizers, the real masterminds of the ideological capitalism, the
true value of the same has not been achieved. As a matter of fact, the frenzy
of the Africans inability to utilize their freedom is one big quagmire. The
reality dawns now as they discover that neo-colonialism has already set in, nay
set in with the greatest significance.
Poverty drives people to fight for
the stomach rights, but quite logically as presented by the legal affairs; an
agreement is reached, archetypal to modus Vivendi. The agreement mostly entails
the fight for ‘justice’ that is not occasioned by carrying of jembes and forks but the carrying of
machetes and guns, and bayonets.
The killings experienced in the
Kenyan territory are not a new idea, it is a mine. A mine to harvest and
discover the hidden goodness of the territory whereas the big guns are busy
exploiting what the good is found in the nation. It is a puzzle that most
countries endowed with minerals and other goodies are always unstable, the
irony of richness of the country.
When people are poor, they are in the
fight for ‘justice’ and when wealth sets in there is again fight for ‘justice’.
The class differentiation intoned by the difference actuated by the petit
bourgeoisie, and the lower proletariat has a bigger say in the matters of the
country.
The rich countries will work day and
night to bring the efforts of the ‘third world countries’ to a naught, so that
continued dependence may be the oversight of power. Africa is not poor; the
inhabitants are the ones who are poor, courtesy of the west.
Since Kenya discovered petroleum,
instability has been the order of the day, and ethnicity is blamed and called
into judgment, and the whole world sings of how Kenya is rife with tribalism
and disquiet.
No comments:
Post a Comment