If you are graduate and every evening and weekend you are
drunk, you are the reason Kenya is poor. If you are a graduate looking for an 8
to 5 job you are the reason Kenya is poor. If you are a graduate and you have
not done something innovative you do not deserve that degree.
Kenya is not the richest country regionally because of us intellectuals!
No, the bitter truth is that while we sit in our comfortable chairs in our
offices and banks, and take our kids to private schools and shop in malls and
go to the leisure clubs, the hard working high school dropout is opening up a
hawking business. The poor, high school graduate is engineering a plane down in
Murang’a. As we sip our coffee, the standard 8 graduate who has worked as a
mechanic for 2 years is thinking of opening up his own garage or a posho mill.
Yes! Kenya is rich because of them, not because of us with our fancy degrees!
If you are an engineer where is the contraption that will
help covert our raw produce to finished products? Must we wait for technology
from India and Europe? Where is our Kenyan made car, aeroplane, tractors and oil
rigs? Why are our roads muddy and dusty? Why are some areas in Kenya still
remote? Where are our space flights and satellites?
If you are a medic, where is the cure for AIDS? Are you
waiting for western nations to come up with it when it is most beneficial to
us? Where is the vaccine for Malaria? Have you become so embroiled in
nonsensical short sighted research while forgetting the real problems facing us?
Or is your work to strike every day demanding for this or that?
If you have a degree in literature where are your words
scorning our lethargy? Inspiring us, making us see the ill of our gluttonous
lives? Where are our oral narratives written down? Where is our culture as
Africans or are you in cahoots with our enemies who want us to forget who we
are?
If you are a veterinarian, like myself, why can’t all Kenyans
afford meat? Why are large swathes of prime land unutilised because of
trypanasomiasis? Why do we still slaughter each other while trying to steal
livestock? And why does 84% of Kenya lie idle when in Saudi Arabia cattle are
kept in the desert?
If you have a degree in music, why are we still listening to
sexually explicit, ear splitting, and nonsensical imported music? Where is our
reggae to the Jamaicans? Where are our traditional musical instruments and
songs?
If you are a computer scientist, where is our African made
operating systems and softwares for our African made technologies? Why do our
industries still use manual equipment or imported technology and associated
software?
If you have a degree in mass communication, where are our
Kenyan made cartoons? Why do we still prefer and watch foreign soap operas and
movies? Where are our intellectual articles and pieces in our newspapers or do
you think all we want to see are politician’s shenanigans?
If you are a political scientist why aren’t you promoting
ideologies? Where are selfless leaders who are only concerned about the welfare
of their people and not about lining their pockets with the poor man’s cash?
As a graduate what are you doing to help those hard working
Kenyans who sent you to school? Where is the innovativeness in your field?
Where are the Nobel or Pulitzer prizes?
You see they want us to remain lazy. Keep us dependent on
their aid. Keep looting our resources until they are depleted. Keep giving us
loans until they control everything we do. Keep sending us corruptive songs and
movies to replace our values. Keep stealing off, frustrating or killing our
innovative minds. Keep sending our scientists in circles on blind ended
research.
Yes they are using you. Until you stand up and say no!
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