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This blog has a political dimension. All progressive views and suggestions based on positive social cultural, political change and development in Kenya are welcome.
CCM Management
C C M 
The secretary general of chama cha mwananchi ccm welcomes you to our newly launched blog.
This blog has a political dimension. All progressive views and suggestions based on positive social cultural, political change and development in Kenya are welcome.
On behalf of the party, I take this opportunity to say
KARIBU!
Posted by sec gen chama cha mwananchi | June 10, 2007, 7:46 pmCHEGE WA THIARI’S COMMENT STILL VALID. YOUR VIEWS ARE AS IF YOU WROTE THEM TODAY 2010
Posted by SG | May 26, 2010, 10:40 amI would like CCM to pose just one question to Hon Raila: if his father faulted majimbo, Mzee Jomo faulted majimbo, Moi saw the light did a Saul and faulted majimbo; what makes majimbo so attractive to him that he forgets that it can annihilate the same country he is aspiring to lead?
Posted by CHEGE WA THIARI | October 14, 2007, 3:31 pmKenyans must uphold National Integration and not National disintegration
Being election season, it has no doubt revealed the extent of our inside rots. In the name of democracy (Demonstration of craziness), we are primitively and highly engaged not on healthy discussion about our past, present and future but on savage and primitive talk on tribalism. Everybody has taken sides, unfortunately and shamefully including the media. Instead of demonstrating maturity, civility and greater understanding of what our needs are, we are dip in mud tearing each other for foolish conviction about ethnicity.
If Kenyans were conscious enough, our focus and national commitments as people of Kenya should have been, to dedicate all our efforts to consciously, tirelessly and with conviction, build a united nation. But given that many Kenyans are suffering from cargo cult mentality (believe that a train full of all those goodies they dream off can only be delivered by one of their own rather than believe in hard work) However, the any progressive mind knows for sure that, we cannot afford the balkanization of Kenya along ethnic lines in the name of Majimbo while else other nations of the world are merging to build awesome economic power blocks. We must churn tribal politics since tangible evidence show that tribalism does not help the entire ethnic group but rather only helps to propel and sustain selfish and greedy individuals into position of power.
Any further development should be pegged on sheer realization and conscious appreciation of our cultural diversity, incidentally, comprising of different ethnic groups and realize that majority do share equally myriad of social, political and economic difficulties facing our country, regardless of ones ethnic background.
This however, means that we people of Kenyan must uphold unity by accepting that we together belong to this country and that tribalism is here to stay. We are bound to come together and elect best leader there is among us and not the astute tribalist because its all about our future.
Perhaps, nothing exposes Kenya’s problem of national integration, more vividly than the word Tribe. It was first introduced by the British colonialist who elicited our consciousness to look and think of ourselves not as Africans but as distinct tribes. In their endeavor to implement divide and rule policy they successfully planted tribal prejudice in Kenya. Unfortunately our politicians savagely continue to embrace tribalism at one time as a friend, reject it as an enemy at another and finally smuggle it through the back door as an accomplice.
It is no wonder that ethnicity mentality has driven some tribes to think that; they are poor because they “other tribe” are rich. They believe they are rich because they stole and they stole because they hold power. They solution they provide is to use primitive ethnicity as campaign tool to get to power and hold back the rich so that the poor can get rich.
It is therefore clear that we will always face difficult in fronting a common national candidate as chief executive of this nation due to primitive tribal based evaluation of our leaders as the prerequisite of acceptance as a candidate. This election will be the worse ever in Kenyans history, as Kenyans are once more digging in, preparing to do what they know better, crucifying their heroes and rewarding their traitors. How funny it is that the greatest value we accord our leaders lies in how nasty he is on tribal preaching.
Only God will help Kenyans as ignorance takes control, by voting from a point of ignorance instead of informed and well balanced minds. We must be ready to face the aftermath choke once our hopes are shattered by electing bad leaders in the name of parties and tribes. We will therefore painfully learn that we exist not as tribes but distinct individuals and that our success is in our hands.
{Keep it up, I would appreciate to know more about CCM}
Posted by Kaniaru Kibiru | October 27, 2007, 7:45 amIts Clear
Kenyans must uphold National Integration and not National disintegration
Being election season, it has no doubt revealed the extent of our inside rots. In the name of democracy (Demonstration of craziness), we are primitively and highly engaged not on healthy discussion about our past, present and future but on savage and primitive talk on tribalism. Everybody has taken sides, unfortunately and shamefully including the media. Instead of demonstrating maturity, civility and greater understanding of what our needs are, we are dip in mud tearing each other for foolish conviction about ethnicity.
If Kenyans were conscious enough, our focus and national commitments as people of Kenya should have been, to dedicate all our efforts to consciously, tirelessly and with conviction, build a united nation. But given that many Kenyans are suffering from cargo cult mentality (believe that a train full of all those goodies they dream off can only be delivered by one of their own rather than believe in hard work) However, the any progressive mind knows for sure that, we cannot afford the balkanization of Kenya along ethnic lines in the name of Majimbo while else other nations of the world are merging to build awesome economic power blocks. We must churn tribal politics since tangible evidence show that tribalism does not help the entire ethnic group but rather only helps to propel and sustain selfish and greedy individuals into position of power.
Any further development should be pegged on sheer realization and conscious appreciation of our cultural diversity, incidentally, comprising of different ethnic groups and realize that majority do share equally myriad of social, political and economic difficulties facing our country, regardless of ones ethnic background.
This however, means that we people of Kenyan must uphold unity by accepting that we together belong to this country and that tribalism is here to stay. We are bound to come together and elect best leader there is among us and not the astute tribalist because its all about our future.
Perhaps, nothing exposes Kenya’s problem of national integration, more vividly than the word Tribe. It was first introduced by the British colonialist who elicited our consciousness to look and think of ourselves not as Africans but as distinct tribes. In their endeavor to implement divide and rule policy they successfully planted tribal prejudice in Kenya. Unfortunately our politicians savagely continue to embrace tribalism at one time as a friend, reject it as an enemy at another and finally smuggle it through the back door as an accomplice.
It is no wonder that ethnicity mentality has driven some tribes to think that; they are poor because they “other tribe” are rich. They believe they are rich because they stole and they stole because they hold power. They solution they provide is to use primitive ethnicity as campaign tool to get to power and hold back the rich so that the poor can get rich.
It is therefore clear that we will always face difficult in fronting a common national candidate as chief executive of this nation due to primitive tribal based evaluation of our leaders as the prerequisite of acceptance as a candidate. This election will be the worse ever in Kenyans history, as Kenyans are once more digging in, preparing to do what they know better, crucifying their heroes and rewarding their traitors. How funny it is that the greatest value we accord our leaders lies in how nasty he is on tribal preaching.
Only God will help Kenyans as ignorance takes control, by voting from a point of ignorance instead of informed and well balanced minds. We must be ready to face the aftermath choke once our hopes are shattered by electing bad leaders in the name of parties and tribes. We will therefore painfully learn that we exist not as tribes but distinct individuals and that our success is in our hands.
{Keep it up, I would appreciate to know more about CCM}
Posted by Kaniaru Kibiru | October 27, 2007, 7:49 amHabari gani Brothers and Sisters, first of all I would like to Thanks and Congratulate the CCM Party for boldly being at the forefront of fighting for Justice and Equality in Kenya in spite of the palpable implications of the global system of Racisim/Whitesupremacy in our Country and indeed the Developing World. Mine is just a quick question to the Leadership of the CCM Party and that is whether they plan or are planning to advocate for a revolutionary change in Kenya’s current Eurocentric ‘Education System’ where our children’s curriculum is composed of a diet of romantic lies about Europeans role in ”Civilising Afrika and bringing us back to the path of humanity from the hills of Congo where we apparently came from”, of course there is the occasional mention of Afrikan Nationalists like Chaka Zulu and Emperor Menlik the 2nd but there is a shocking paucity of the significant role that Afrikans played in the World before the emergence of Europe as a Social/Political entity with World recognition! I am talking about the Nile Valley Civilisations of Ta-Seti, Kemet, Nubia, Kush, Puanit and Khart Haddas and the contributions that our Afrikan ancestors made in the fields of Science, Architecture, Mathematics, Medicine etc which most if not all of our children have never heard in their G.H.C Lessons! If Kenya is to be successfully transformed by bold parties like CCM, I firmly believe that we therefore need to invest in the complete Reappraisal of our current ‘’education system’’ and replace it with an AFRIKAN CENTRED EDUCATION SYSTEM that will begin to teach our children about the roles that our Afrikan Ancestors played in the development of the Sciences, Mathematics, Philosophy, Architecture, God Consciousness, Marine Sciences and also teach them about the socio-economic effects of the Afrikan MAAFA – (Enslavement, Colonialism, Racism, Imperialism) and how it has continued to plague our societies, cultures and economies. Such a system should incorporate the teachings of Afrikans like- Dr Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr John Henrick Clarke, Dr Frances Cress Welsing, Dr Theophile Obenga, Dr Yosef Ben Jochannan, Dr Naim Akbar, Dr Amos Wilson, Dr Ali Mazrui, Proffesor Ngugi wa Thiongo, Dr Molefi Kete Asante, Dr Marimba Ani, Dr Leonard Jeffries, Brother Walter Rodney etc If such an Africentric Education system is implemented, I believe that it would have the effect of placing us as a society on a platform that would begin our process of ‘’ Breaking The Chains Of Our Mental Slavery’’ as you have poignantly pointed out in your manifesto!!
Asante Sana and Hotep.
Brother Kamau Wa Ngunjiri.
Posted by Kamau Wa Ngunjiri | October 27, 2007, 7:32 pmNdugu Ngujiri
Welcome to CCM. Surely we need people like you who think ahead of time. We shall surely teach Kenyan children their real history once CCM comes to power. In doing this we need sober minds like yours. Get in touch with CCM.
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Posted by Dick Kamau | November 28, 2007, 8:49 pmHave a nice day !
Posted by bibomedia | February 27, 2008, 11:04 amNine Reasons why so many Afrikans support Barack ObamaPosted by Ifayomi on June 9, 2008 at 4:00am
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This blog is an abbreviated version of an essay that you will be able to find on my website http://www.houseofknowledge.org.uk next week
Here is the list of reasons why so many Afrikans support Obama:
1. Rugged Individualism and the American Dream. Many US citizens of all hues believe in ‘The American Dream’. This dream suggests that in the US, like no other place on Earth, it is possible to achieve one’s dreams (almost always financial) and achieve untold wealth. It is the classic rags to riches story embodied by individuals such as Oprah Winfrey. It suggests that with hard work and talent all things are possible. Now of course there are many instances of people achieving this type of success however the wider social narrative is based upon a half-truth which is particularly condemning of groups such as Afrikan-Americans. Since success is purely bound up with individual worth, it naturally follows that groups such as Afrikans in the US who ‘underachieve’ educationally, economically etc. must be deficient in some way (culturally or genetically). This explanatory paradigm diminishes the importance of social and structural factors such as race, class, gender, disability etc. And locates the blame in the ‘failing’ individual or group. Despite this and the reality that social mobility is in fact lower in the US than in many other rich countries a large number of Afrikans in the US are strongly attracted to these ideas which they feel are embodied by Barack Obama.
2. An obsession with messianic leadership. Many Afrikans have a strong attraction for messianic leadership and there has been steady supply of such leaders to satisfy the collective appetite. Messianic leaders are usually highly charismatic individuals who have the ability to inspire and motivate large numbers of people. Their fatal flaw is the idea they promote that they have a hotline to the Creator, that they are divinely inspired and hence their utterances and ideas are not theirs but rather the truths of God. In this world the messianic leader becomes a transmission vehicle for imparting divine wisdom and hence becomes beyond criticism, both internally and externally. Indeed the leader’s followers will often responds with extreme hostility, sometimes even violence to anyone who dares to question their leader. Since all people have flaws and make mistakes the group can develop no further than the leader’s abilities. Of course all subsequent leaders are then forced to embrace prophetic status lest they discredit the group’s founder. Now, Barack Obama does not fit the aforementioned mould or scenario except that he is highly charismatic, rather he is the object of many Afrikan’s desire for a saviour type figure to singlehandedly lift the group out of its bondage. Hence he is clad in metaphorical heroic garbs and even the mildest evidence based criticism of Obama brings a sharp rebuke from his supporters.
3. An inability to distinguish between the symbolism of change and the substance of change. As Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report identifies in his above quoted article, Obama has done everything in his power to distance himself from ‘Blackness’ in order to reassure Whites. It is therefore ironic that the more he runs away the harder many Afrikans chase him down. Too many Afrikans have short memories. There were at least three Afrikan emperors of the Roman Empire; however the nature of the Roman Empire remained unchanged. Similarly, be they Afrikan, a woman, disabled or all three; one individual does not fundamentally change the institution. The best example of this is Margaret Thatcher, elected as Prime Minister of Britain in 1979. Thatcher was no different to any of the White men who proceeded or followed her and paid no particular attention to the needs of women and in particular poor women in the UK. She was elected despite being a woman not because she was a woman. Just as if Obama is elected it will be in spite of being Black and not because of being Black. To sum up this point, melanin is necessary but not sufficient to lead Black transformation.
4. A misunderstanding of how government in the US works in practice. James Petras (2007) describes the commonly held view and the alternative reality. “The high school text book version of American politics is that the major political parties and candidates present ideas to the American people on public policy, and the people choose which ideas will rule the country. In this textbook version of things, the politicians take interest groups into account in formulating their ideas. These interest groups include business, labor, religious, civic and other organisations. No one of them is dominant. This is the ‘pluralist’ view of American politics.
In actuality, something very different happens. The people in key positions in financial, corporate and other business institutions establish the parameters within which the politicians, parties and media discuss ideas. These people constitute a ruling class. Their composition changes according to which sector of these business institutions is dominant at a given point in history……Rules change with shifts in power within the ruling class. (Petras 2007: 15) Therefore Obamaites are deluding themselves if they think he can bring about any significant transformation in the workings of the US government. He was selected and allowed to come this far because the ruling class – what George Bush referred to as “my base” – have been reassured that he knows how to play by their rules.
5. A misunderstanding of how racial/ethnic groups compete with each other. In my book ‘Why Willie Lynch Must Die’ I wrote extensively about inter-ethnic competition and the basis for group success. Too many Afrikans believe that success is a ‘me’ game whereas it is in fact a ‘me’ and ‘we’ game. Groups need to co-operate internally and compete externally. Obamaites seem to believe that having your most talented individuals working on behalf of your oppressor and competitor is the route to group success. They seem to believe that these individuals will be able to force Caucasians to repent and make a space for us and we can all live happily ever after. The fact that there is no evidence to support this proposition seems of little importance. Claude Anderson identified Identity, Trust, Co-operation and Accountability as critical in building sound communities. Identity is founded in culture and it culture that is the springboard for group success not talented individuals (who are located in all ethnic groups).
6. A deep-seated, often unspoken, need for Caucasian approval. Many Afrikans across a range of ideological positions and beliefs crave the approval of Caucasians. This is made clear when one observes how much energy Afrikans use to protest about some racial insult or slur from any Caucasian as well as the amount of time Afrikans will expend arguing with Caucasian racists about whether we are inferior (culturally, genetically or both) or not. People secure in their identity and peoplehood don’t engage in such futile non-productive activity. If they are unhappy about something they take action that hits their enemies where it hurts e.g. economic boycotts. However because so many of our people are deeply insecure about our collective – as opposed to individual – merit, any crumb of approval offered by the dominant group e.g. an Oscar for Halle Berry for selling us out in the film ‘Monsters Ball’ is seized upon with glee as a sign of group progress. Principles and integrity go out of the window in the desperate fight for Marsa’s approval and hence even war criminals such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice become pin ups for Black ‘progress’. Obama as President becomes the ultimate symbol of White approval and hence the idea touches many Afrikans at the core of their being.
7. The lesser of two evils justification
This is normally the final justification when all other arguments are exhausted. He is not as bad as ‘Hillary’ or McCain we are told. Well that is setting the bar just about as low as is possible! The lesser of two evils still leaves you supporting evil.
8. The ‘undercover brotha’ hope
This is perhaps the most desperate and least plausible of reasons for voting for Obama. In the classic film ‘The Spook who sat by the door’ the lead character joins the CIA as a seemingly obedient integrationist Negro and then later on returns to the hood to use his training to transform gang members into guerrilla fighters. In this vein I have heard it suggested that once Obama becomes President he will reveal his true Black self. We’ll see!
9. An obsession with ‘Black Firsts’. The Negro version of the history of Afrikans in the US is obsessed with ‘Black Firsts’ and individual ‘successes’. This is strongly linked to the need for Caucasian approval and each Black First is greeted joyously as taking us that bit nearer to the Promised Land. However when one examines the group’s functionality one sees that Black Police Chief have not reduced the murder of Afrikan young men by Police Officers, Afrikan Directors of Social Services have not halted the disintegration of the Afrikan family and Afrikan politicians (certainly on a national or state level) have delivered precious little to Afrikan communities. ‘Black Firsts’ are little more than putting sticking plaster over a cut jugular.
Conclusion
Claude Anderson suggests that building our group is like building a five storey building. You have to build the first level before you can build the second and so on. In his metaphor the five stories of the building are Economics, Politics, the Criminal Justice System, Media and Education in that order. Whilst I might quibble with some of the ordering of the other floors I certainly agree that economics provides the ground floor. If you do not build your ground floor i.e. a strong economic base, it will be impossible to build the other floors on thin air. This is what Afrikans in the US – and other places continue to do – ask for what they want and beg for what they need. If you are a minority you have to have strong economic leverage and be able to deliver a bloc vote in order to influence national politics. Since Afrikans in the US do not have the former and 90% of those who do vote; vote Democrat, without the promise of anything in return, Obama; like all the rest of the senior national US politicians will continue to ignore us as a weak and irrelevant group. Its quid pro quo and if you don’t have any quids there is no pro. That is the inconvenient truth.
The only sensible reason to support Barack Obama is if you support his policy positions. The idea of voting for someone because he has an Afrikan parent and looks like people you know is frankly daft. Clarence Thomas (the Supreme Court Justice) has two Afrikan parents and supports the torture of prisoners to gain information by the US army and police. You could not find a more egregious Uncle Tom if you tried. Are we really so defeated that all we can cling to for hope and solace is the meagre, melanated representationalism that Obama represents? Do 40 million people have to live vicariously through one man who does not even recognise them as a group worthy of attention? I would rather a Caucasian of principle than an Afrikan of rhetoric in the White House any day.
The strangest twist to the whole Obama saga is that many – but by no means all – people like me who are sometimes accused of being obsessed with ‘race’ don’t support Obama, whilst many of those Afrikans who profess colour-blind liberalism have jumped on the ‘race’ horse and are riding it with gusto. Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed!
© Ifayomi Grant http://www.houseofknowledge.org.uk
09 June 2008
If you use excerpts from this article please acknowledge its source and do not misrepresent the thrust of the piece.
Independent Afrikan writers need the support of independent minded Afrikans!
References
Anderson, C (2001) Powernomics – The National Plan to Empower Black America, Bethesda, Maryland: Powernomics Corporation of America
Ford, G. 04 June 2008, Obama Resigns From Black Nation, Black Agenda Report
Grant, P.I. (2007) ‘Why Willie Lynch Must Die and other Essays’, Navig8or Press: Nottingham, UK
Petras, J. (2007) ‘Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire – Bankers, Zionists, Militants’, Clarity Press Inc. :Atlanta, GA
Posted by kimathi | June 12, 2008, 4:58 pm
Posted by kimathi | June 26, 2008, 3:59 pmHello,
My name is Connor Reilly. I live in Wisconsin, USA, and would just like you to know that I support CCM. I’m 17 years old and I have been to Kenya twice in the past two years. I do believe that Koigi wa Wamwere is the chair person of CCM. I actually had the pleasure of meeting him while out to eat in Nakuru back in August. Anyways, I would just like you to know that I am in full support of your party and think you can bring good things to Kenya.
Best of luck to you.
Posted by reillyc3 | October 14, 2010, 9:42 pm