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Rank: User Joined: 9/6/2013 Posts: 1,446 Location: In a house
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Haiya, Hata Kama Quote:I organized a meeting in 2005 to solve our family issues. When I asked them about their opinion, they said I should build each family member a house and give each of them a monthly wage. Mawinder Quote:When I was in Monaco I thought it would be good to have a family of footballers. So I made sure my brother Rotimi gets into a football academy in France. Within a few months; out of 27 players, he stole 21 phones. If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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Where are the guys who will blame the white man for his problems? Business opportunities are like buses,there's always another one coming
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Rank: User Joined: 8/15/2013 Posts: 13,237 Location: Vacuum
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KulaRaha wrote:Where are the guys who will blame the white man for his problems? You mean Jubilee Govt? If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/19/2009 Posts: 3,142
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KulaRaha wrote:Where are the guys who will blame the white man for his problems? Of course the white man is to blame. We should embrace our peculiarities and not fight against them like Mr. Adebayor is doing - obviously at the instigation of white man lifestyle.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/22/2010 Posts: 11,522 Location: Nairobi
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Swenani wrote:KulaRaha wrote:Where are the guys who will blame the white man for his problems? You mean Jubilee Govt? possunt quia posse videntur
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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yeah... sure... 1 billion africans and we see Adebayor's story and we automatically think... IT HAS TO BE A CURSE ON THE BLACK MAN! the Black man is the only creature that can do these things. All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/27/2012 Posts: 851 Location: Nairobi
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Muriel wrote:KulaRaha wrote:Where are the guys who will blame the white man for his problems? Of course the white man is to blame. We should embrace our peculiarities and not fight against them like Mr. Adebayor is doing - obviously at the instigation of white man lifestyle. Is writing here on Wazua, in English one of those "peculiarities" of ours? Thing is, times have changed. We no longer graze,farm and gather. We no longer use horns to call out the village. The African "UJAMAA" you are preaching no longer sustainable. The sort of ujamaa, if a brother/sister is making it big, the rest of the grown , healthy siblings just sit back to reap. Reap what? I believe even the Bible says if you have not worked, you shouldn't eat. Yet we have people/communities that believe my bro's/sis' is mine. Here in Kenya we have tribes which practice more "ujamaa" than others. Those which embrace hard work thrive. The bowl-handlers are always struggling. Tend to bear more kids. Kind of IRRESPONSIBLE you would say. The bowl-handlers also tend to have a myriad of beliefs and myths. The sort of beliefs Adebayor's family has been having. For a footballer, what would "powers" do? Score goals for him? A lot of BS right there. The non-Africans to a greater extent, live the hard_work-way. You pick your bills. FULL STOP. Mothers/sisters also need to style up. We have mothers who abandon their husbands and run to the well-off child,more so, a daughter leaving the husband struggling out there. To women; you were with your husband before the rich kid was born, stick with your husband and stop the joy-riding. RESPONSIBLE,HARD WORK! RESPONSIBLE HARD WORK! RESPONSIBLE HARD WORK!
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Rank: User Joined: 9/6/2013 Posts: 1,446 Location: In a house
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masukuma wrote:yeah... sure... 1 billion africans and we see Adebayor's story and we automatically think... IT HAS TO BE A CURSE ON THE BLACK MAN! the Black man is the only creature that can do these things. Sorry if this your first story on this issue. I believe you are a superb web trawler, do the necessary.
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mkeiy wrote:Muriel wrote:KulaRaha wrote:Where are the guys who will blame the white man for his problems? Of course the white man is to blame. We should embrace our peculiarities and not fight against them like Mr. Adebayor is doing - obviously at the instigation of white man lifestyle. Is writing here on Wazua, in English one of those "peculiarities" of ours? Thing is, times have changed. We no longer graze,farm and gather. We no longer use horns to call out the village. The African "UJAMAA" you are preaching no longer sustainable. The sort of ujamaa, if a brother/sister is making it big, the rest of the grown , healthy siblings just sit back to reap. Reap what? I believe even the Bible says if you have not worked, you shouldn't eat. Yet we have people/communities that believe my bro's/sis' is mine. Here in Kenya we have tribes which practice more "ujamaa" than others. Those which embrace hard work thrive. The bowl-handlers are always struggling. Tend to bear more kids. Kind of IRRESPONSIBLE you would say. The bowl-handlers also tend to have a myriad of beliefs and myths. The sort of beliefs Adebayor's family has been having. For a footballer, what would "powers" do? Score goals for him? A lot of BS right there. The non-Africans to a greater extent, live the hard_work-way. You pick your bills. FULL STOP. Mothers/sisters also need to style up. We have mothers who abandon their husbands and run to the well-off child,more so, a daughter leaving the husband struggling out there. To women; you were with your husband before the rich kid was born, stick with your husband and stop the joy-riding. RESPONSIBLE,HARD WORK! RESPONSIBLE HARD WORK! RESPONSIBLE HARD WORK! There are some among us e.g. Tokyo etc who advocate for abandoning of white man thought systems. They often ask of what we, Africans, had before the white man came. We had ubuntu. Ujamaa. That Mr. Adebayo's mom and sisters are abusing and misusing ubuntu is not reason to abandon it. Indeed, theirs is a completely unrefined ubuntu. However if there were millions of Mr. Adebayos and only a few Mrs. Adebayos then their demands will not be so prominent. It is from our poverty in which we speak that we feel Mrs. Adebayo is being unreasonable and sympathise with Mr. Adebayo. 'We', including Tokyo and others, should come out strongly for ubuntu, the indiginous African spirit. I call upon 'us' to strengthen it, the poor show by Mrs. Adebayo notwithstanding. I would be surprised if 'we' say otherwise.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/17/2012 Posts: 1,461 Location: Ngong Forest
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mimi niko sawa! nime download ubuntu tayari!
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/19/2009 Posts: 3,142
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Ngong wrote:mimi niko sawa! nime download ubuntu tayari! Sasa sambaza kabisa!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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urstill1 wrote:masukuma wrote:yeah... sure... 1 billion africans and we see Adebayor's story and we automatically think... IT HAS TO BE A CURSE ON THE BLACK MAN! the Black man is the only creature that can do these things. Sorry if this your first story on this issue. I believe you are a superb web trawler, do the necessary. I hope you have 1 billion stories to back your claims... your story there in included. All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: User Joined: 9/6/2013 Posts: 1,446 Location: In a house
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masukuma wrote:urstill1 wrote:masukuma wrote:yeah... sure... 1 billion africans and we see Adebayor's story and we automatically think... IT HAS TO BE A CURSE ON THE BLACK MAN! the Black man is the only creature that can do these things. Sorry if this your first story on this issue. I believe you are a superb web trawler, do the necessary. I hope you have 1 billion stories to back your claims... your story there in included. Did Uhuru get over 40m votes to be president?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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This is the African mentality on display. When watching the news on the tragic Garissa incident, many parents were sobbing saying that their kids who passed away were their only "tegemeo". What does that mean? The parents were waiting to fend off their kids salos etc How often do we hear of the phrase "Serikali saidia"? Infact Kibaki was hated for asking "na wewe utakuja saidia serikali lini"? Unfortunately those who shout loudest of serikali saidia don't pay kaisari his dues. We Africans have a really strange mentality "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore .
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/27/2012 Posts: 2,256 Location: Bandalungwa
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If true then his family has some crazy characters. This story reminds me of McHammer who also went broke because he was paying his childhood friends , relatives and other idlers and hangers on
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2015 Posts: 682
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This is not an African issue. It's a poverty issue.
Ade is only showing the other side of the rags to riches story. People usually hear of poor guys striking it rich and losing it all. The assumption is usually that they blew it on drugs and girls. But most human beings have instincts that raise alarms whenever frivolous spending goes haywire. So what is it that can make you spend until you have zero bob in the account?
Investments.
Specifically, BAD investments. It is very easy for someone to switch off the alarms in their head and spend all his money under the impression that you are making an investment that will return dividends later. Unfortunately, people from poor backgrounds who strike it rich are easily guilted by the people they left behind in the ghetto. They are made to feel like they owe everything to the people they left in the poorhouse. No doubt Adebayor has been reminded by his family members about "that time I sacrificed my soccer boots for you to practice," etc etc, leading to him pumping so much money towards them and their hair-brained ideas under the guise of 'investing' in them.
Hope he can see the light before they run through all his money and turn on him.
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KulaRaha wrote:Where are the guys who will blame the white man for his problems? Wacha wamalizane na thread ya Mayweather kwanza!! Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.
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