Once I learned about wazua, I'll keep my posts to my friends. PERIOD..

Ambia mimi rafiki yangu. Hii ni poa?

Na utoe yako

@Njung'e... I know you will be next...Tafadhali toa mbegu!

sasa mimi nimeingilia wapi? My brother until you accept your africanness you will not be accepted.

Africanism is accepting ART. We were artists until we became "sovereign"

I'm bringing these songs up so that Africans can understand that our problems have not changed. Songs in 1966 still ring true now.

You come in Masukuma becasue you want to pretend that things are they way they are because of the white man.

I propose to you that things are still the same.

There were Athamaki and Ahoi. Just as there were Mutongoria,Njamba and Gitonga

It was a cast system

Only Aiinii like Franco can save you. Artists paint and we have slowly destroyed them.

Now they are dying because of bendover.

Your "africanism" is dead. No ART, no LIFE.

All we have now is popcorn. Size8 for Jesus and Nameless for goggles.

No ART. Just making music.

Aiii. That is not African. These were Africans.

of course the story is more complicated than that! consider a family of alcoholics. burning away the toil of their youth and their youth. generation after generation after generation. the first person to pertake generously the spirit in bottle may have had a number of issues (stress, work related, marital issues e.t.c.) he however drunk and institutionalized drinking in his children and his children's children until it becomes systemic. the reasons a 3rd or 4th generation member of the family would drink would not be the same reason the first person in the family drunk. alcoholism has become a culture in that family!! The reason Africa is the way it is is not because of a single cause its not a single story. however the point is what we suffer today are the results of our own shortcomings and the shortcomings of others before us. its not genetics its cultural!! until we build a culture of unity on things that are similar to us we are dreaming about getting any form of respect around here... look at what some people are claiming

Why? because of our failures... our collective failures!! not Kikuyu failures, not Luo failures, not Congolese failures, not Kru failures, not yoruba failures, not igbo failures, not Madingo failures and not Basotho , Shona, Dinka or Tutsi failures but our failures. the failure of the part applies to the whole (or is applied to the whole). I once said that until the last african country gets out of the 3 enemies of our people namely poverty, ignorance and disease, the first african country to rid itself successfully of these 3 enemies will not rid itself successfully of the image of poverty, ignorance and disease. Dangote suffers the same image problem as a starving child in Chad - may be worse coz he gives a damn! tafakari hayo as you remember that out of all the oppressed people of this world Africans have done much much better with themselves than others. We have a knack to bounce back, We are doing it but we must unite and forge ahead. because after we have apportioned blame we still need to come to the realization that we need each other and we either work together as brothers or perish as fools.