RELIGIOUS DOGMA IN RATIONALE PERSPECTIVE:

They say when one person is delusioned, its madness and when many are delusioned its religion. You cannot put this better if you are a keen observer of today’s religious society. Sometimes some people take me wrong when I hurl asperity on the so called opium of masses. I have tried severally and every trial I make attracts dogmatists who come out breathing fire. The passion with which they come out is incredibly scarily. They might make you feel headed for limbo the next moment you raise your finger.

  

My little experience has taught me not to question faith but my rationale advises me otherwise. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use at the cost of the deceptive heart. I am a rationalist who believes in the Bible the same way I belief in the sun not just because I often see it but by it, I am able to see all other things. That is not to mean that the Holly Quran, the Bhagavad-Gita, the book of Mormon and assorts are lesser of books.

We believe in supernatural beings for spiritual nourishment that eventually makes us better people, not holier than though as fundamentalists would suggest. Our spirituality should not make us at any point stop applying our rationality. It is obvious that you cannot trust your spiritual element over your rational element. Accepting this simple fact is in itself rational. That is my rationale but all I see, all I hear every day is dogmatic religious selfishness which does not make things any better but worse.

Rationale is not selfish; it inspires love and understanding for all humanity. Rationale is not the opium of masses but a gift for every individual human being. Rationale does not segregate the human race. In religion, I have seen people kill in the line of defending their faith. I have seen religion impoverish people; I have seen it turning people against each other. I have seen religion selectively prohibiting people from intermarrying. Some have fought each other for superiority, power and control. That is not love, it is cancerous selfishness.

In religion, sect groups have emerged and caused anarchy in societies. The Mungikis the Al-Shababs, and the Al-Qaida of this world have something to do with religion, don’t they? Albinos are being hunted and killed in Tanganyika by some believers for spiritual remedy, that’s religion for you. How moving would religion be had it united the world and not divided it. How encouraging would it be had it been one and not segregated and confusing as it is today. How amazing would it be had it inspired love for all and not hatred for some as it is eminently evident today? Quite frequently, religious fire begets ashes but occasionally it spawns more fires. I will stick to my rationale.

By Duke Mwancha.

WHO BEWITCHED OUR CHAPS?

You cannot see it when it is dwelling with you; this is an old cliche which cannot validate the inability of me not being able to understand what is within us. Being a man is not so much different from being a woman and being a woman is not so much the same as being a man. Some will say that men are from Mars and women from Venus but I would say women are men from there and men are women from nowhere. The difference is the same yet so different. Beyond this, I do not know much about women much as I know much about men!

Hail to our fathers of the world, the men who discovered this and that; no need to recapitulate their well incubated names and their well archived histories and good reputations. They literally impregnated the world with their theories and discoveries of hope; after all they were not women but men. It did not take long before the heavy world gave birth to the autocrats of the 19th century, tyrants of the 20th century and the buffoons of the 21st century who were and are all men.

Man made religion; man disintegrated religion and manned it with the many menaced men headed patriarchies. Men colonized and enslaved. They became chauvinists and sexists, the reason why women are on the gender agenda demanding gender equality from the endangered gender—that’s right, endangered gender!

Men dominate the world, society, politics, families, their wives and even themselves. Ooh! Sorry, I am being unjust; it is not men who rule the world, it is not men who instigate nuclear, racial and tribal wars. It is not men pirating at the high waters of Somalia. Men were not involved in the Darfur crisis neither did they fight during the post election violence in Kenya. The Mungiki, Chinkororo, Amachuma, SLDF and the Kayabombo are not men. The Al-Qaida, Taliban, Al-shabaab and LRA are not men either-I got it all wrong.

In Kenya men are fairly scarily; they will steal and kill but then dare squarely share forty slots at equal shares for tea. Men will sell the same piece of land to five different people and disappear with money to live them fight. Men will kill their sons and fathers for land. They will exhume the rested in peace for land. Like England and Greenland, Kenya should adopt uniqueness and be called “Landmongerland,” a just government of men like it is insinuated in parliament.

In Kenya, men will marry, merit merry but then re-marry only to end marriage and marry again. Lucky will be a woman with one man who is man enough to be her man. Unfaithful married men hunting outside marriage for the unmarried are all men. Old men deceiving little ones for sex are men. Men proposing to fellow men for marriage are also men. Men who rape their wives, their grannies and infants are all men.

Bar rooms are full of men. You will find them there discussing absolutely nothing important but squandering money later to carry the mess home to their women they call honey. Men of today will deliberately cause oil tankers and beer trailers to overturn for free harvest of oil and beer. Men will do this and that and much more little queer things not good for pen and paper. This makes me wonder, who bewitched our men!!

By Duke Mwancha.

A SOCIETY LIVETH IN INFAMY:

Our social and political environment has eminently been polluted to an extreme baffling friend and foe alike. We are not oblivious to circumstances leading to this infamy but we have chosen to proverbially bury our heads in the sand. Our society is on the verge of maladjustment if the social confusion and political roughshod that we are experiencing today is anything to go by. All this is happening in our full conscious under the auspices of our so called forth estate which is literally spitting on our beautiful innocent faces.

It is unbelievable how our agenda setting third eyed boys and girls in the media blissfully make vice fashionable in the name of transforming society from conservatism to dynamic conventionalism. May be this is democracy the contemporary way but I always have a feeling that their interest is extremely far fetched. You will agree with me that whatever comes out of the media makes a difference between a morally upright society and a society in anarchy.

The public mind is yours for taking if you can convince it that what you do is for its interest. However most often what the public experiences is confusion groomed by its ill fated cliché, public interest. Think of a society like Kenya that has been a powder keg of ethnic mistrust, betrayal and imbalance. The political environment is always electrical thanks to the media. Deadly tribal politics have immensely been made popular and inevitable. The media generated ethnic mistrust and stereotypes that people so innocently pander have more than once come back to haunt the innocent and are now at the pick.

I am not completely disregarding the role of the media. There are a number of good things that journalism has accomplished in society. That is why I took a career in Journalism which I am so passionate about. However I am being perturbed by the arrogance accompanied by this career.

I have had many people blatantly referring to newspapers in mediocrity. Electronic media has been blamed as the source of all evil and cultural confusion that is rendering society into disaster. I am not privy to the fact that journalism is no longer about empowering people but it is increasingly becoming a tool for acquiring political power and profit boom power for a few affluent individuals. Media has become a hard nut to crack with no brave person willing to give it a check. This ideally confirms the fears of our scholars a few decades ago who felt that power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I do not have political hair on my chest but I can comfortably say that there is a disgraced symbiotic relationship between the media and politicians. One wonders when all the crap and dramatized hate comments and speeches from politicos became of public interest. It is amazing how the media glorifies affluent men and women who are hell bent and so smitten to consign limbo this society.

The most disgusting thing is how the media bedevils and forcefully facilitates their well master-minded political bigotry down the throats of people. Ironically, with eyes closed they hurl blame to politicians only when their roughshod turns horrible to society effectively locking the stable after the horses have bolted.

Listening to radio has turned sour. Particularly the domineering frequency modulation radio stations that now epitomize a society in the wildness. Discussions in the so called breakfast shows and assorts are literally effing and blinding. It is here that the abstract monster called public interest comes hurtling down like the meteor that consigned the dinosaur family extinct sixty four million years ago. They don’t give people much option but just to have them listen to their dogma only to assert later that it is exactly what people want. Their abstract public interest evangelism has indoctrinated many myopic young fanatics and it is greatly gained momentum.

Remember it is darkest before it is completely dark. We forthwith need to diffuse a time ticking bomb in our presence and save our society from anarchy by throwing sense into the bargain. Together we should make this society Incorruptible by shooting from the hip rather than serving from the lip. People should take control of their destiny away from the capitalistic media. If we choose to feed society with good morals, we should take control away from the media now. Any further delay is practically postponing the day of reckoning as we have done in the past, making it potentially much more destructive. Destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for but something to work for.

By Duke Mwancha.

THE KENYA WE WANT SPEECH:

Friends, ladies and gentlemen, please lend me your ears -and your eyes for that matter. You and I come from different ethnic backgrounds whose cultural diversity lay the foundation for our beautiful nation. No man, no woman knows better than you do that God made us one and equal despite our ethnicity. Over the years we have been seduced by the monster called tribalism. Some call it negative ethnicity. 

This monster has always lured us into the bigotry of subscribing to tribal cocoons on matters political. It is a monster that has killed and buried our spirit of independence. Because of the monster, our development has been retarded culminating to tribal conflict. The 1992 tribal clashes and the 2008, post election violence are some of the clear-cut mess this monster has driven us to.

Kenya is not the sole country in the world with myriad tribes. However I am being baffled and I am sure you too are being baffled by the magnitude this natural diversity has taken us to. Our unscrupulous politicos have taken this monster as their riding horse. They use tribalism to rise to the top of leadership and when they reach there, they pretend to be solving our problems when all they do is literally emptying our pockets more aggressively driving us from the frying pan into the fire.


We too have a tendency of masquerading to be saints clean of tribalism in public but replenished of it in our offices and homes with our friends and families. This is unfortunately having a cake and eating it too, an instinct worse than that of the wild pig.


Ladies and gentlemen, we have a common challenge; we know that tribalism begets corruption and other vices which subsequently spawn more tribalism. We should stop bragging about our history and start thinking of who we are. Our history and our future are important but dependant on whom we choose to be. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.


Our destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice; it is not something to be waited for but something to work for. Today, today my friends today my brothers and sisters-let us arrest the monster. Let us hung it in the cross like it was unjustly done to Jesus Christ two thousand years ago.


I talk to you today my friends that despite the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, we can kill tribalism. Go back to Eastlands Nairobi, go back to Westlands Nairobi and go back to your homes and villages knowing that you and I can kill tribalism. It is our responsibility to dig the deepest grave for the monster and certainly the obligation of our politicians to disown it, force it to hurtle down the grave like the meteor that consigned the dinosaur family extinct sixty four million years ago.


And my friends let us join hands; we should always join hands to sing the beautiful words of our national anthem-“Ewe Mungu nguvu yetu…...” Then, and only then shall we banish tribalism from our national fabric and be able to say that change has come to Kenya.


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(This speech was delivered at the “Kenya We Want Forum” to a live audience at the Boulevard Hotel Nairobi on 4th May 2009 by Duke Kosprin Mwancha.)

MY RESUME

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Please find my Resume by following the above link.

BE NOT WHAT THOU CANNOT BE:

Quite often, some men tend to walk out of relationships just when the relationship is getting warmer. This queer behavior is quite baffling in a way which may mistakenly make one think that men have phobia for commitments.

As a matter of fact, these kinds of moves are normally triggered by outlandish disgusting habits manifested by ladies. Some ladies don’t know how to woo men and as a result of this they end up doing the unimaginable.

The most embarrassing thing a lady who has a crash on a man can ever do is to seek assistance from her friends on how to approach the guy. Ladies who do this can of course make the first move perfectly well but spoil it all after a short while. When a man discovers this pretense, he does not hesitate to walk away.

Other ladies think that being sophisticated or being unreal makes things any better. There are those who will want to be seen like they are really on top of things. These will dwarf their men by showing off to them how much they know, who they know and how much they are connected. Some ladies will even straggle to show their men how classy and advanced they are.

It is extremely amazing when a lady pretends as not being able to finish meals when she is out for lunch or dinner with a man. Habits like these scare away men. However this could be the same case with men. Quite often men too find themselves attacked by this malady which to them is worse than it is to ladies. One has nothing to loose by being real. Being real may turn things more perfectly than one can imagine.

By Duke Mwancha

THE ‘‘MATATAS’’ OF ‘‘MATATU’’ DRIVERS:

Walk down the streets of Nairobi or any major town to any bus terminus. Think of any good looking young man, smartly dressed in the latest fashion and you will see him there. Meet him in a fourteen sitter on his spinning seat, his staring eyes will literally steer you clear from him. A welcoming wink of an eye for a lady and perhaps some compliment is his secret of making the fourteen fully occupied. With loud music under his seat, the guy is confident of pocketing hefty pecks at the end of the day. Watch him; his chewing of miraa (curt) will remind you of a stray goat in your village.

A matatu driver, an adversary to traffic police will always have money in his driving license just in case, a survival tactic. He and his hydrophobic assistant called the makamba are the big headed managers of our traffic. Reckless overtaking, overspeeding, overshouting and thunderous music are very characteristic to them. Try get on their way crossing the Zebra lines and you will be bedeviled. They shout fifty fifty but wait until you face the makanga.The lunatic will treat you like a fool of the 20th century, that you heard it all wrong. You will be surprised, reduced to paying twenty more in very embarrassing circumstances.

Lucky is you, a young submissive cute lady, you won’t pay a penny if a falsified affluent matatu driver sets eye on you. Our college ladies are the most vulnerable. I wonder how matatu drivers manage to ignite them. A matatu driver will somehow rather have some-one for the road. Go to entertainment lobbies, you will find him there entertaining the young and innocent with all types of alcoholic drinks. These tender ones will rather play truant on Friday evening than throw an opportunity of squandering money with a pretentious matatu driver. Then they will come back so smitten, so hell-bent and swollen like bedbugs looking forward for the next day. And snobbish they exhibit, but dare you complain and experience how they throw back to your face.

His language is fascinating, the so called shen’g and some neither here nor their broken English intrigues. Our local musicians really admire him; I see them on T.V everyday mimicking a matatu driver. The flamboyance has gone down to our college boys and girls and even percolated to secondary schools. The dress code, language and behavior are enough to narrate the whole story.

Matatus having artistic images and some blinding DVD screens with effing hoofers are exorbitantly expensive to board. A matatu driver makes a lot of money out of this extraordinary entrepreneurship, doesn’t he? Wait until it rains, you will pay him everything and go hungry for several days!

With or without a matatu driver, this roughshod needs not to be embraced. This extremely obnoxious proliferating infamy deserves being hurtled limbo or else aggravate. And who said that a matatu driver is precisely a fellow who drives matatus? 

By Duke Mwancha.

OUR SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE:

A few months ago, it was hard to belief that president Barrack Obama would triumph over Senator John McCain in US elections. Obama made history for being the first African American to become president of the United States of America. He is famed for his charisma and alacrity that charges many with hope in America and across the world. Had he been Martin Luther’s son, he would certainly be a chip off the old block.

The embracing of a black person by Americans as president is the greatest thing that could ever happen to the Negro society, keeping in mind that an American leader is also the world leader. But have you imagined what could be the case if the Obama-McCain race was in a different environment, in Kenya for that matter?

If all that happened in 2007 is anything to go by, then I can’t imagine the infamy that everybody would live to remember. Obama would be given a direct nomination by his party following his sensational dwarfing speeches. His party also would conduct the most fraudulent party nominations ever and baptize them “free and fair”.

Kenya has been a powder keg of ethnic mistrust, betrayal and imbalance. The ethnic stereotypes that we so innocently pander would take center stage at the expense of nationalism and patriotism.Obama would be accused for coming from a community that has held on presidency for too long. He could also be accused for coming from a minority tribe or a community that “will never lead Kenyans”. Political platforms would be characterized by the “domo” “domo” hate campaigns. His opponents would capitalize on this and move for a kill.

News stories on Obama would take the lion’s share of space in particular media houses as was religiously done by the main-stream media in 2007. The opposite could also happen to him depending on the media house and the community it supported. The press would forget media ethics and professionalism and run all sorts of unethical political adverts to safeguard their interests.

Obama would be termed as a very dangerous man, fish marketer or a coward just to instill fear in voters and ensure he does not succeed. Our vocal friends from the civil society would also go tribal. The men and women who are supposed to protect us from the private sector’s exploitation would kill the goose that lays the golden egg. With all their influence, some would shoot up hands for Obama and others against him and confuse Kenyans whom they often think cannot make decisions independently.

Kenyans would desperately be besieged to vote for Obama or jeopardize his chances by turning in large numbers at the polling stations. His party would skim to rig, yet cry foul innocently over rigging plans by other parties. The ECK would be put under pressure and people would hurl skepticism claims over its mandate and credibility. Many people would be perished for supporting Obama or even for supporting his opponents. Such more would happen as was literally transpired in this country towards the tail end of 2007.

However, this was abysmal. The intransigent for such thinking can never be expected to be the prerequisite for a mature nation. One wonders if by any chance in our savvy, we have learned anything from our American brothers and sisters. Perhaps our leadership fraternity needs to borrow a leaf from US politics. This might redeem us a great deal even as we brag that Obama’s ancestral blood lives in Kenya.By Duke Mwancha.

WHAT LIES BEHIND US AND WHAT LIES BEFORE US ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT LIES WITHIN US;

Kenya’s history is still fresh in the minds of those who cared to incubate it. Perhaps the most memorable one is how Kenyans united to deliver themselves, from the canines of the white lions from Manchester forest in the Kenyan jungle forty five years ago.

At the threshold of building the nation, Kenyans were frequently seduced by a monster called tribalism. Some call it negative ethnicity. This monster lured and rendered Kenyans bigotry of subscribing to tribal cocoons on matters political. This cradle annihilated our independence spirit and jeopardized our national cohesion. It baptized and consigned us into parochial politic. Over years it has arguably retarded our development growth and perpetuatively initiated tribal conflict. The 1992 tribal clashes and the 2008 post election crisis are some of the clear-cut examples of the mess this monster has driven us to.

Kenya is not the sole country in the world with numerous tribal affiliations. I am being baffled by the magnitude this diversity has taken and the extreme it has reached. Today notwithstanding the memories of where we have come from and the number of people counting loses; our unscrupulous political class is at it again. They are injudiciously campaigning for the next general elections; they are engineering malice against each other devoid of efforts to kill ethnicity.

A section of Kenyans continue to wallow in the abyss of abject poverty. Others in the name of politicians are blissfully enjoying their allowances tax free. They are unarguably either oblivious or ignorant of the prevailing circumstances. It is wrong for them to presume that they are leading us when all they are doing is literally emptying our pockets more aggressively driving us from the frying pan into the fire.

We Kenyans have a common challenge; we should stop bragging about our history [Independence] and start thinking of where we are going. We should as well stop waiting for good things before us [vision 2030] and put curb on the hindrances that stop us from getting there sooner. Thus what lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. Destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice, it is not something to be waited for but something to work for.

We have a tendency of masquerading to be saints clean of tribalism in public places but replenished of the double dyed spirit in our offices and homes with our friends. This is unfortunately having a cake and eating it too, an instinct worse than that of the wild pig. What is fundamentally essential for Kenyans is to once and for all arrest the monster and hung it on the cross without trial like they did to Jesus Christ two thousand years ago. This big sacrifice will do much in rendering our country big redemption.

Our politicians who are the main architects as well as the accomplices of the big monster should stop rhetoric, shoot from the hip rather than serving from the lip. We on the double need to find cure of myopia for our politicians, a malady that is abysmal and lethal to the health of our national eyes. We cannot curb ethnicity by pointing fingers and hurling blame on each other. If we insist on doing this, we will only be postponing the day of reckoning as we have done in the past making it potentially much more devastating.

It is our responsibility too to dig the deepest grave for the monster and certainly the obligation of the political class to disown it, force it to hurtle down to the grave like the meteor that consigned the dinosaur family extinct sixty four million years ago. To ensure that it does not haunt us and baffle everyone like the proverbial phoenix, we should embrace powerful mental and moral sanctions from the cradle which will subsequently banish tribalism from our national fabric.

By Duke Mwancha.

A BIG DREAM FOR KENYA:

AFRICA OVERVIEW;

Fifty score years ago, great Africans, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation years a Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of African slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that AFRICA is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the African is still sadly crippled by the manacles of poverty and the chains of tribal and racial discrimination. One hundred years later, the African lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the African is still languishing in the corners of African society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

KENYA;

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every Kenyan was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that Kenya has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, Kenya has given its people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But I refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. I refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of equality and the security of justice. I also want to to remind Kenya of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of tribalism to the sunlit path of tribal justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of tribal injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of any Kenyan. This sweltering summer of the Kenyan legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. The twenty first century is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that a Kenyan needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in Kenya until a Kenyan is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must write to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for democracy by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new vigilante groups which have engulfed the Kenyan community must not lead us to distrust of all our leaders and police forces, for many of our leaders, as evidenced by their numbers in parliament today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their well being is inextricably bound to our well being. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities meant for the rich. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Kenyan basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Kenyan in Mombasa cannot vote due to delay in procession of the voter's card and a Kenyan in Moyale believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mandera, go back to Garissa, go back to Nyeri, go back to Migori, go back to the slums and ghettos of our cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.I write to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment caused by insecurity and inflation, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Kenyan dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men[regardless of tribe] are created equal."I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Rift valley the sons of a kalenjin and the sons of a kikuyu will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.I have a dream that one day even the city of Nairobi, a diverse city, sweltering with the heat of injustice and insecurity, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that our children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the region they come from or their religion but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day our country Kenya , whose leader's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little Kikuyu boys and girls will be able to join hands with little Luo boys and girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.This is our hope. This is the faith with which we shall live. With this faith we will be able to hew the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to work hard together, to stand up for justice together, knowing that we will conquer tribalism one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'Daima mimi mkenya-mwananchi mzalendo, of thee I sing. Land where our fathers died, land of the freedom fighters, from every hillside, let freedom ring." And if Kenya is to be a great nation this must become true. So let no tribalism ring from the prodigious Taita hills. Let fairness ring from the mighty Mount Kenya. Let justice ring from the heightening Alleghenies of north Eastern province.Let growth and development ring from the Rockies of the rift valley.

Let no violence ring from the suburbs of Kisumu city.

But not only that; let no cattle rustling ring from Turkana and Pokot. Let no spell conquer kisii hills, kitui plains and the costal land. Let hard working ring from every district and location of western province. From every mountainside of Mount Elgon, let peace ring. When we let peace, love and unity ring, when we let them ring from every village and every district, from every province and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, from all ethnical backgrounds, Christians and Muslims, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of our national anthem, "Ewe Mungu nguvu yetu,....... haki iwe ngao na mlinzi! THAT DAY IS COMING SOON-.............I have a dream.

By Duke Mwancha.

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World’s greatest quotes;

1. Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

2. The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

3. The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

4. The next day is never as good as the day before.

5. If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

Robert Collier

6. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

7. We simply propose that our social and economic ideal be that society which gives the maximum opportunity for each person in it to realize himself, to develop and use his potentialities and to labor as a human being of dignity giving to and receiving from his fellow man.

Rollo May

8. Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

9. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

10. If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Franz Grillparzer

11. Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Robert Burton

12. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Napoleon Hill

13. It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.

Bob Proctor

14. Use your brain, not your endurance.

Peter Thomson

15. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Henry David Thoreau

16. it’s the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.

Bob Proctor

17. Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Wayne Dyer

18. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Henry David Thoreau

19. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

General George S. Patton

20. Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Leonardo da Vinci

21. The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

22. I'm not young enough to know everything.

J. M. Barrie

23. The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Kahil Gibran

24. Intuition and concepts constitute ... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Immanuel Kant

25. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

26. Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.

Mark Victor Hansen

27. It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Wilbur Wright

28. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

29. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

30. It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

31. Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

Marlene Dietrich

32. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

33. Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gassett

34. Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.

Jo se Ortega y Gassett

35. I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

Martina Navratilova

36. Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

37. Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

38. I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle

39. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert F. Kennedy

40. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

41. There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

Andrew Carnegie

42. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

Virginia Woolf

43. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

Virginia Woolf

44. But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

45. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Horace

46. A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope

47. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to infinity of choices.

Deepak Chopra

48. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

49. The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: 'the work is done.' But just as one says that, the answer comes: 'The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains.' The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

50. Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Lao Tzu

51. The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

William F. Scolavino

52. Constant repetition carries conviction.

Robert Collier

53. There is nothing entirely within our power but our own thoughts.

Rene Descartes

54. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

55. The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

G.C. Lichtenberg

56. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

James Allen

57. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

James Allen

58. Quote Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Kahlil Gibran

59. The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.

Peter Thomson

60. Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

61. Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future—and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Albert Camus

62. Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

63. Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Miguel Cervantes and K. Gandhi

64. Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Euripides

65. Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Miguel Cervantes

66. If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Rollo May

67. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

68. Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you."

Norman Vincent Peale

69. Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

Robert Collier

70. Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Aristotle

71. True balance requires assigning realistic performance expectations to each of our roles. True balance requires us to acknowledge that our performance in some areas is more important than in others. True balance demands that we determine what accomplishments give us honest satisfaction as well as what failures cause us intolerable grief.

Melinda M. Marshall

72. Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

Federico Fellini

73. You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.

Bob Proctor