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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>As
a non-ICT person—just a KICTANET donor--I am compelled to add my two bits
to the debate.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>To
my mind, Brian Longwe’s nationality is not so much an issue of entryism,
but rather one of xenophobia, a phenomenon that we Kenyans appear have a high
affinity to given our propensity to ethnic hatred and even violence.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Xenophobia</span></font></b><span lang=EN>: an intense
dislike and/or fear of people from other nationalities. It comes from the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>
words ξένος (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>xenos</span></i>),
meaning "foreigner," "stranger," and
φόβος (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>phobos</span></i>),
meaning "fear." The term is typically used to describe a fear or
dislike of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(law)"
title="Alien (law)">foreigners</a> or of people significantly different from
oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>To
my mind, Brian Longwe’s intelligent and valuable contributions to the ICT
sector in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kenya</st1:place></st1:country-region>
far supercede the issue of his nationality as the key determinant of his
contributions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>I
am a bit puzzled as to how the possession of Kenyan nationality is being automatically
equated with positive contributions to the nation—as somehow if we have a
Kenyan in the post that things will be done better. This is particularly the
case when I look around me and see a Kenyan Commissioner of Police who is happy
to kill unarmed pro-democracy advocates; a greedy parliament (all Kenyan) that is
happy to award themselves exhorbitantly high salaries without paying tax; and a
Kenyan government that is renown worldwide for some of the highest levels of
corruption. Is their contribution to our nation calibrated solely on their
possession of a piece of paper that labels them Kenyan? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>I
believe we should judge a person’s contributions to bettering of the
nation by their actions, regardless of their nationality. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>As
the debate for constitutional reform moves forward, I also wonder where this
leaves the xenophobes. We may soon have a provision for dual nationality.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Binaifer Nowrojee</span></font></st1:PersonName><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
kictanet-bounces+bnowrojee=osiea.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+bnowrojee=osiea.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>aki<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 2008-12-03 13:27<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Binaifer
Nowrojee</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] Entryism
according to some dictionaries</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>The net has some interesting views on
this, something that came to mind while reading world politics
a while back.. </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Entryism</span></font></b> is a
political tactic in which an organisation or group enters a larger organisation
in an attempt to gain recruits, gain influence or to take control of the larger
organisations' structure. This technique is commonly used by groups from the
far left or right of the political spectrum to enter more centrist
institutions. This is experienced more frequently in arenas where opportunities
for political activity at the fringes is limited, such as two
party/majoritarian systems rather than in multiparty/proportional systems where
the cost of entry into the political system is lower. Organisations which are
the subject of entryism often react by attempting either to marginalise or
expel the pratagonists.<o:p></o:p></p>
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