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 Government of The People, by The People, for The People - Posted By: Ken Auma
The phrase from Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg address, ‘that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth’ remains a telling reminder of the proper role, constitution, and function of government. Yet Lincoln himself was party to setting in motion a process that would increase the power of the US federal government and diminish the power of the states, so reducing America’s ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’.
African governments have blamed the past colonial powers for many sins to divert attention away from the atrocities and other injustices they have committed against their own people. Significantly they never blame them for their greatest residual injustice to the continent’s people; that of leaving behind a deadly legacy of constitutional and government structures that have led, as night follows day, to strife, war and unnecessary deaths. The pernicious legacy the colonialists left behind was unrestrained centralised power; the kind of power they believed was needed ‘to keep the natives in line’. How could they admit to having governed in a tyrannical fashion, an admission they would have had to make, in order to, prior to departure, transform their despotic rule by creating the essential institutions of truly free societies? By Eustace Davie
When will the people have there say as they say it?
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Devolution: Which way for Africa? - Posted By: Ken Auma
"Should Kenya and other African countries explore devolution as a tool to bring stability and cohesion in their unitary states or shall we wait until separatism knocks on our doors?"
Many a times I ask myself, Why should an individual becomes so power hungry till it leads to bloodloss? Africa is the richest continent on the planet, yet to my surprise, many developed countries borrows almost everything from it.i.e human resource, raw materials, and even market if not "dumping site".
Devolution. Is it for Africa?
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Yes we can! - Posted By: Ken Auma
Restoring Unity and harmony in Kenya? Yes we can.
I was once to that "..a country that does not invest in its youth, is a dying Nation..." (M.Gadhi). The future of every nation depends upon the strenghth of its youth. Youth employment is at greatest HIGH RISK.
The potential of microfinance in restoring hope and eventual healing cannot be wished away, unless Kenyans live in denial. Doyle (1998) in the book Microfinance in the Wake of Conflict asserts that microfinance is a tool that can serve multiple goals. It is not only a tool for rebuilding and restarting local economies by providing needed financial services for enterprise creation but also an instrument of relief, survival in the wake of disaster, peace and reconciliation. Is the sector able to rise to the challenge? Time will tell
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 go on and volunteer... - Posted By: amani007
I am Red cross volunteer currently serving a host of people displaced by the recent post-election violence in Nairobi,Kenya
There is nothing as heart warming as discovering that the time you have so generously offered is actually of significance to someone.My experience in the field has taught to appreciate every day and just go out and help...
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WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD - Posted By: ra4
For many years young people have been sidelined in every aspect of development, we are branded over ambitious. I had a challenge when I was organising a confernce for young people from all over the globe this www.gyfod2008.org. Approaching many sponsors and NGO's I was really suprised by many who insisted that if we are to partner in organising the confernce then we have ot take the back seat while they take the front seat. This is because we are small they are big. To me I believe it was our idea as young people from the informal settlement how can we give it to someone else who is not even aware of how we came with the idea. Therefore im calling all young people its high time we fight this instructural inequality.Lets join hands and say "there is no excuse come 2015". One of my favourite country is bahrain, they have achieved 90%of the millenium goals within the 7 years why not our countries we still have 8 years even if we dont achieve 100% but 70% will be enough for a start past 2015. Therefore im asking fellow youths whats your stake.
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