[kictanet] Interesting Piece ...

[Francis Hook]

If we look beyond the effrontery there are very valid arguements
there. Look at India - they manufacture many things - and yes they
still have poverty but they are slowly clawing their way out of an
abyss.

I hear we have a bullet factory in eldoret - why can we not make
bicycles? We had the nyayo pioneer car and I would like to hear a
valid arguement why that could not have taken off and why we have
become a nation of ex-Japan cars. We used to have a good textile
industry but someone saw fit to allow containers of used clothes into
the country - now we have decently dressed, hungry and jobless people.

I think the tone is harsh but sometimes we need to take bitter pills.
There is a generation growing up in Kenya who will start asking these
same questions - and we cannot wish away the problem and either have
to find credible answers or bring about some change.






On 22/01/2012, Daniel Waweru <daniel.waweru at gmail.com> wrote:
> Astonishingly stupid piece. I wouldn't have been surprised had it turned
> out that Ewart Grogan had written it. This part, in particular, is
> exceptionally stupid:
>
> Knowing well that King Cobra will not embody innovation at Walter’s level
>> let’s begin to look for a technologically active-positive leader who can
>> succeed him after a term or two. That way we can make our own stone
>> crushers, water filters, water pumps, razor blades, and harvesters. Let’s
>> dream big and make tractors, cars, and planes, or, like Walter said,
>> forever remain inferior.
>
>
> since it *fully* accepts the colonial premiss that the human value of
> people depends on their level of technological advancement. The author
> proves his point about African intellectuals, if not in quite the way he
> expects.
>
>
> Daniel Waweru
> www.kenyaimagine.com
> Art and analysis; debate and opinion.
>
>
> On 22 January 2012 17:30, Agosta Liko <agostal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://mindofmalaka.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/you-lazy-intellectual-african-scum/
>>
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