Harambee - The End of Pulling Together!
- Posted on Tuesday 6 May 2008 - 08:20Daily Nation commentator, Rasnah Warah has an article published in today's Daily Nation on PCEA Moderator, David Githii "banning" the use of the word Harambee because the word traces its roots from the Hindu Godess, "Ambee". (Click HERE to read her story)
This pathetic argument from certain Christian leaders is not new in Kenya. A few years ago I came across the debate and published a cartoon with Kevin Amenya in an issue of Awaaz:
The question is whether Kenyan's will actually accept one of the only calls we have as a Nation to pull together! How could this man be so blind as to be an overt tribalist of all times in Kenya!
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- Posted on Monday 05 May 2008 19:56yep, as the canadian daughter of a french catholic tunisian dad and brit anglican mom, no doubt about it, christians have done a lot of favours for Africa like mass genocide , oh yes, slavery, mass rape, and hey, ruining just about everything, killing the elephants for the ivory trade and destroying the ecosystems, .causing cycles of suffering generation after generation but hey...
good job!!
certainly crucial to reject any divine concepts, particularly feminine ones, other than those put out in the book that shall not be named.
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