A New World
Tonight,
I wake up in a new world.
There’s no darkness beyond earth,
Only light.
The flimsy dream had ended,
and there’s was no way back
Once the scales, from eyes, fall,
The judgement is eternal
Reality unending
November 2021
the need to procreate…
It’s just a woman,
A fully grown one,
Nothing to worship here.
Her beauty,
Is for my consumption
The attraction is meant for me to feel the need to procreate
Book Review: A Boy Named Koko by Adipo Sidang
This is the second book by the award winning Kenyan author Adipo Sidang.
It is about, well, a boy named Koko.
It is an interesting read that takes one’s through the horrors of poverty and disability. But don’t worry, there’s a great ending to it.
Koko is a boy living with albinism who has to contend and fight against a world that wants to exploit him at every turn.
He comes to the city to live with his mother’s sister who uses him as a beggar to get money. This is a really depressing life for the young man of about 14 years old.
Koko, after a beating for not bringing any money (one day), runs away from home into a convent but is kidnapped while in hospital by people who believe that killing a person with albinism will bring them wealth.
His rescue is like a scene from a movie.
There are some lessons here, poverty, disability, exploitation, the dangers of rumors about albinos, greed, punishment and salvation.
Koko is a multi-talented boy, a rapper and good at school too. But his poverty makes things worse for him. But through sheer encouragement, everything got better.
Adipo Sidang writes with great passion. The similes, poetic iterations, the imagery are great to make the reading flow, leading one to create an enduring mental picture of the scenes.
Apart from the chapter on football (it’s not that much), I loved all the other parts of the book.
But I was a little irked by the interpretations which at some point I considered excessive.
This book is recommended for every library and for all people, especially, the young ones living with albinism.
This book won Adipo Sidang the 2018 Burt Award.
Uplift one today, buy the book.
BOOK REVIEW: The Wall Speaks by Jerr Rrej
It is not arguable that most of the dysfunctions we found ourselves embroiled in in the current world is caused by the emasculation of the human male.
The author of The Wall Speaks captures this truth is simple and kind language.
Men are important for the order and growth of the earth, yet they are being pushed down, downtrodden and left to whine like women. This should not be the case.
Jerr Rrej carries the kind language that bears fire and cuts at the heart of the matter like a very sharp sword.
The Wall Speaks is an easy to read guide on learning masculine frame.
Frame is how a man appears or should learn to be manly.
Men must be very rational; this is the opposite of women; as women are very emotional.
In common psychology or etiquette practice, most of us know that emotions solve nothing. That when one makes decisions through emotions, they are bound to fail.
Most regret later.
And why would you then live a life of emotions as a man?
This book brings out the truth on how relationships between a man and a woman must be.
That a man must lead, and to be a leader, one must take responsibility for all things. One must LEAD.
But there’s a blame men must carry. Our forefathers have enabled the feminism movement to grow further making the world chaotic. Blame all these chaos on men for accepting and falling for feminism. It is their dominant mothers that made them think that worshipping women is a good thing. Pick up frame and pass it. Help men
Women, innately love to be led, and to be dominated as this is written deep within the genes from existence in thousands of years.
The chaos you see in single or unled women is due to the lack of strong masculine frames. Sadly this singer chaotic women pass this frames to their sons who in turn live depressing lives.
The world is drunk to teach men to share feelings, or to show emotions.
Relationships are a game of power, but the man must learn how to win always for a productive and great life.
One might take some words of this book as outlandish, but not for me.
I figured out why women act the way they do.
Women reward manly males with respect and sex, and this is one of the reasons women tend to cheat or easy for them to fit anywhere. They blame their cheating on their husbands (not being said, is that their husband or boyfriend wasn’t showcasing manly traits)
You might wonder how that guy you consider ugly gets all the women. It is the masculine frame.
You might wonder why women never take responsibility for anything (When they cheat they blame another). They often want to shift blame. It is female nature.
Women are cruel by nature due to the chaos in their spirits. And masculine frame calms this.
READ: The Wall Speaks – A great book for masculine reawakening by Jerr Rrej
At some point Jerr gets too deep into the aspects bordering the spiritual realm (which I didn’t have a hard time understanding because I’ve delved into such), but might be hard for the average reader. This is largely seen in, for example, the issues to do with alcohol and how the feminist movement has deeply affected the world towards the end of the book.
Pick up this book today and learn. It is a book that one would find hard to put down.
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My Take: Not Yet Uhuru by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
So, where do I start?
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga is a man not much talked about, as in, his ideologies have often been brushed aside by neo-historians as communist and a trouble-maker in the Kenyatta and Moi governments.
Those who argue this way have not read his book or they outrightly don’t love the man.
They also are people from positions of privilege in that, Jaamogi, who wanted the best for all, stood in the way of their grandfathers’ primitive accumulation of wealth which they still enjoy to this day.
At some point in 2015, I called out activist Boniface Mwangi for holding a public exhibition near the National Archives in Nairobi for not including the pictures and short history of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
Indeed, what Mr Mwangi was doing was to brush aside, black the story of one of Kenya’s most important politician in history. He was carefully following in the government of Kenya agenda; perhaps even US funders agenda.
‘The agenda must agend’
Jaramogi was what you would equate with none.
He came from deep in the village of Sakwa, worked hard to start businesses and unit his people before working on the unity of all Kenyans and even East Africans (Uganda and Tanganyika/Tanzania).
He accounts how sometimes he would walk long distances, endure much hardship to get things done.
Some quick things about Odinga’s book not easily written about anywhere
- Odinga on being accused that he is a communist said, ‘I will accept money from anywhere provided I can get it without strings attached to it’, he also in another occassion said, ‘I understood that in communist countries the emphasis was on food for all. If that was what communism mean then there was nothing wrong with that objective’.
- The colonial and later the Kenyatta govt used propaganda about communism to make Oginga unfavourable to their western sponsors. They succeeded much.
- Oginga was once beaten unconsious by KADU youths along Harambee Avenue.
- Oginga beautifully and perfectly paints Tom Mboya as a man used by USA. I believe him.
- There’s a famous story that Tom Mboya airlifts did Kenya great. But what is less talked about is the airlifts done by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. Kenyan students went to Russia, Canada, USA and Germany.
His straight-shooting is what made him hated by the powers that be.
Not Yet Uhuru still rings true today.
Some words are fresh, one would think they were written in 2012.
There are some aspects of the celebrated Kenyan political leaders of the past that are always not tackled. The media and powers that be gloss over them, paint them as saints but truly without deceit, we need to revisit.
I hold the position, and not from long ago, that, any past African leader that is celebrated even by whites was a sellout in major ways.
Before you bring the argument that Western countries control money (through IMF and World Bank), please let me ask you, how did the North Koreans and Iran make it through alive?
Didn’t Muammar Gadaffi of Libya, a country in the continent of the godforsaken, full of bootlicking politicians, do it?
Oginga to me was such a man, a man f conviction as I see through his own accounts. He would have pulled off a Libya-ic Kenya.
‘It is disturbing that the spreading tendency is to put promotion and salary above all else, including the national interest. The rot does not start in the Civil service, but with politicians’ – Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, 1967
But he had one flaw, he trusted too much and became attached to the point he didn’t know what else to do.
This, unfortunately, not covered in this book, culminated in the Kisumu massacre.
A man he had once defended with his life turned against him, placed him under house arrest.
‘The colonial system of education in our settler-dominated system created dependence’ – Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, 1967
Following the above quotes, have you checked Competency-Based Curriculum – CBC? Chieth!. The error in 8-4-4 was mostly the examinations. All in all, education shouldn’t be depressing and full of such violence as these two systems in Kenya offer large quantities of those.
Oginga run for the presidency in the age of the reintroduction of multi-partyism but until his transition to glory in 1994. He was still the defender of the wananchi.
It is 2021, and it is Not Yet Uhuru.
(Tom) Mboya the ‘hatchman’ (who was a member of KADU, then joined KANU)…paid dearly for precipitating the politics of intrigue in the party (KANU) – Prof Walter O. Oyugi.