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<div>Akich,</div><div><br></div><div>While i uphold the participation of the Almighty in the affairs of men on earth, i think in Africa we make God work "overtime", to quote a friend mine. </div><div><br></div><div>If only we could work as much as we pray and lay emphasis on God, Africa would have changed big time. Americans have applied themselves to create a system that allows Obama to emerge as a prepared leader by God. We need to apply ourselves to the development and growth of institutions that establish and uphold the state in Africa so that the already God given leaders in Africa would emerge and not be kept in obscurity by our own undoings. The amount of time Africans spend praying and sitting in church auditoriums without much action afterwards is unbelievable, for me, the more closer you are to God, the more productive you should be.</div><div> </div><div>Finally, i think we need to vacate this mentality of one day, suddenly a saviour would emerge and everything would change. Change is a process and we need to work towards it. Obama did not suddenly show up, read the 200 plus years of effort and commitment to a cause that we see today. Lets work at building our institutions and allow the rule of law to work.</div><div><br></div><div>Eric here</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 23 Jan 2009, at 10:01, Akich Kwach wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Guys,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In my view, the content of Obama's message was great, it matters less whether</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">he read it from the telepromoters or memorised from his mind,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>he looked</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">natuaral and at peace with both his soul and conscience. We should remember Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr gave</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">memorable speeches many years back when such technologies did not exist. Thousands of miles</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">away from the Land of Opportunity (US), Mahatma Gandhi did the same in India</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">while sometimes barefooted after losing his home made shoes after a train</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">journey. Mandela did the same just a decade ago in South Africa, while those who</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">were keen listeners received the soft words spoken by Mother Teresa.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">These are men and women besides other great world leaders whom have been</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">gifted to be used by God. I humbly believe God is using Obama to reshape</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">America (how interesting) and the rest of the world. When you have the most</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">powerful man on earth declaring you do not need mighty army to win war</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">against the enemy, it means he knows where the power is coming from.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Let us trust one day, God shall present us (NOT GIVEN) with a leader in</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kenya who will inspire Kenyans to have a common purpose and move forward as</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">one people.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Akich Kwach</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">----- Original Message ----- From: <<a href="mailto:dmakali@yahoo.com">dmakali@yahoo.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To: <<a href="mailto:kwach@archway-productions.com">kwach@archway-productions.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cc: "kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:54 PM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: Re: [kictanet] Obama Speech puzzle: read,memorised or simply no</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">script?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thea were two thin, blue, telepromoters on the two sides he kept looking at.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">And they would be seen everytime the cameras went into long shot mode!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ict imesonga mbele, bro.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">And thea was no pt showing the cutlery wen all eyes were on the food.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">D</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-----Original Message-----</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: Maina Samson <<a href="mailto:esmainah@yahoo.com">esmainah@yahoo.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:42:34</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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