Words are not the things they represent, so the question is why they are used in whatever context, and the rules are guided by politics. Choosing a definition is a political act that may not be shared by others. . .

That was one of the worst thing these people did to the son of the soil, in his own motherland and after he had kneeled down and kissed the Earth at Kamirithu village.

Most of the young generation may not have heard about Gachamba but that analogy is very relevant.
We need to rethink our value system and the education system.
In Fact the weakening shilling could also be attributed to our peculiar habits.We think something that is foreign is more superior than our local products.We are importing everything including rice because of the middle class status and inferiority complex.We prefer everything foreign hence the ridiculously huge imports.
Our education system lacks innovation and the students are busy cramming for the exams with no value addition.Our creative industry is dead with no support from the government.
Those who encouraged the growth of the creative industry like Mzee Ojwang are dying poor and we have no shame.

I hear you.Is it not peculiar that the Prof is himself an import?
I understand his reasons for fleeing the country in the 1980s but not now.He should be teaching those values in our universities.
Mzee Ojwang was arguably more popular in Tz than in his home country and would probably have been richer if he had relocated.
Ngugi is in US for the money and is just waxing lyrically about values.

What's wrong with being buried in Langata? I understand the mother of our first lady was interred there.