Since the coming of the colonialist and the sisters the missionaries, everything the AFricans were doing prior to this was deemed barbaric and primitive, ushenzi. However, current developments are proving this sentiments wrong, but we Africans having been caught and brainwashed can't understand these developments.
First, the African traditional foods were replaced by an assortment of unhealthy blather. Recently, in towns like Nairobi, affording an African dish is not easy with these plates being priced and not so common anymore. A small bite of the sweet potato, cassava or the arrowroot which has been despised as food for the poor and villagers is around a dollar. a serving of managu and other bitter traditional herbs, if you don't get them already off the menu will cost you every limb.
In the herbal medicine field, despite the field being crowded by quack just like Western medicine, the field is registering phenomenon success with a recent programme on K24 indicating that most medicinal plants and trees are on the verge of extinction and are regarded as endangered species.
Over the hyped Christmas festivities hundreds of believers decided to hold prayer walk around Mt Kenya on 27th and Alas upon their intercessions rain has started pounding the nation. While the Christians pray from the abode of their palaces for rain with no results ..This group just needed some few hours. It is a shame that the group had to be licenced by the Ministry for Internal Affairs to hold such a beneficial prayer walk in a country boasting of freedom of expression. The reasons which have been cited in banning the group holding its prayers has been the "Mungiki threat".
May be it is just time we seriously faced Mt. Kenya and knew where we came from and where we are going.
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