There is a rather interesting research the Nation did to prove a point that somebody is very determined to prove. The results are published in today's edition of the Sunday Nation. The point that somebody somewhere seems determined to prove is that the youth are idiots and have no chance of being issue-oriented if they do not know anything about Kenya's past. One respondent was shocked that Mwai Kibaki was once vice president.
The questions in this so-called survey were clearly designed to discredit younger leaders and even voters well ahead of the general elections.
Guess what all this means? Somebody has started feeling the heat.
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What that article in the Nation is suggesting is utter rubbish! If, as you suggest, this is indeed part of some deliberate scheme to discredit young leaders especially with the election coming then these people behind this semi-literate gaffe better invent some way to be immortal.
ReplyDeleteI also found that so called 'survey' farcical, putting it politely.
ReplyDeleteYour youth campaign Chris really got me thinking and I realised that the Kenyan society is on the edge of a generational precipice.
Nature (and resultant systems) periodically demands replenishment from a new generational pool. Our cheetah population is proof of what happens when a speices suffers from limited gene variety.
In Kenya we have a warped situation where we have twisted the logic of nature. The old are now stifling the progression of their offspring and therein lays our dilemma.
How can we, as a society, be competitive if these wazee are refusing to depart? When will institutional memory, culture, skills, procedures, protocol etc be handed down? When will ideas be scrutinised, verified and implemented?
An orderly hand-over will not be possible when the grim reaper takes these wazee and the youth engage themselves in a mad dash to 'eat' their share.
Look at that change of guard in the Nation Newspaper. That was impressive.
I would request you Chris to take up the youth mantle once again. Push it to its conclusion because the penalty for Kenya will be too painful to contemplate if we refuse the gene river to inherit and replenish the dry plateau that our country has become.
Dear Cain,
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking the time to leave a comment here.
Firstly please send me your email address at strongwallafrica@yahoo.com ASAP, I would like to see what we can do together to deal with this problem.
Personally I think a good idea would be for a serious government to decentralize everything and take away the pressure from nairobi. Did you know that Nairobi generates 80% of the total kenyan tax revenue?
For instance I will really push for parliament to be in Kisumu, most government head offices in Nakuru etc.
Cain, change can only come to Kenya with political change which we are championing in this blogs.
This university degree thing is a subject that is close to my heart and has really been pushed by the Kibaki administration. Look out for a post here on this subject tomorrow.
Keep reading, and my dear brother never lose hope, a better day for Kenya is coming...