God bless Kenya-Happy Independence Day
December 11, 2006 lafemmeafrique12
Dear reader, I write to you as a child who did get Nyayo free primary school milk, enjoyed Club Kiboko and walked through City Park and played with the monkeys there. I salute you as a daughter of Wangari Maathai, Wambui Otieno and Catherine Kasavuli. I stand against the wall under the portraits of Pio Gama Pinto, Tom Mboya, Mekatilili wa Menza and Dedan Kimathi.
I stand as a grandchild of the Kennedy Airlift generation, whose foray into the Americas for education started us upward after 1963 and is in part to blame for those who pulled us down in the centuries that follow. I wander among today’s Kenya, where women and children are not safe from their communities and environments and where even foreigners are not enccouraged to wander by their governments.
And still I am very proud of being Kenyan, born and proudly raised in the generation of “Someni Vijana”( Swahili for ‘Read You Young One’-taken from a popular song we were taught as primary students ) I salute you sons of Kenya, where you lie fallen, after the fight that you ardently strove to win. As a saying goes “Arookoma Kuuraga”( May they lie in well watered plains)
So as you all debate the Kenyan questions of tomorrow, spare a thought to be happy and to share love, today.
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