We are examining one vision where it is all people speaking one language. How about a vision where we all speak all the languages? The implication of this therefore being that we encourage our kids to be multi-lingual people and i'm not talking about speaking french! Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Celtel Kenya -----Original Message----- From: Dan Njiriri <njiris2000@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:55:29 To:alkags@alkags.com Cc:KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs Dear Leonard and all, We in Kenya ignored to be one Nation one people by paying too much attention to our tribal affiliations. The vernacular stations have either been positive or negative depending on the subject matter.However, if we all used Swahili/English in all communications, we would be moving closer to being one nation, one people! The vernacular stations would do more service to this country if they converted to swahili. Dan Njiriri --- Leonard Mware <mleonardo@yahoo.com> wrote:
Shim et al, For the first time I feel compelled to contribute to this discussions. I am basically in the same boat as Shim and trying to answer the same questions. Recently in Tanzania, I had a debate about Kenya and Tanzania and the question of tribalism came up. the first thing they say is Kenya is so tribal that each tribe has an FM radio station! Something Tanzanians can not allow and find strange. To me, a ban on tribal FM stations is long overdue.
Leonard
----- Original Message ---- From: Geoffrey Shimanyula <gshimanyula@ke.uu.net> To: mleonardo@yahoo.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:18:14 PM Subject: [kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
Dr. Ndemo et al,
I wish to attempt to my one cent worth of contribution this mailing list by giving a story of my early schooling. Having started my schooling in a rural setting, vernacular was one of the lessons that we had to learn. The unfortunate thing was that the dialect we were learning was quite different from that which we spoke back at home. I now understand the reason for that being that no one had ever published a book in our dialect. To this date, I see no value in having learnt that dialect for it does not help me in my every day life today.
Fast forward to December 30th 2008 and for the first time, my children ask me what tribe they are. This is because they are descendants of a mixed marriage. For them, the language to use is English or Kiswahili depending on the audience. And the only reason why they asked me this is because they heard of the tribal fighting's that were going on around the country.
I am saying all this because as one of the contributors to this forum stated recently, over 60% of KENYANS are literate and when I say literate here I mean those who can utter a word or two in English because Kiswahili is by-and-large used all over the country with the flavor varying from one region to another.
I believe that we need to be confident enough to let "other" people understand that which is being spoken and by this I am referring to the FM radio stations that use proprietary languages/dialects. I am not in any way against radio stations having a niche in terms of captive audience but I believe that they can still achieve their objective in a transparent language in this case - Kiswahili. This way, we shall eliminate all sorts of mistrusts that we are seeing today in this beautiful country.
We don't need these vernacular radio stations in a country that is striving to move from the LDC quadrant.
Regards,
Shim...
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On Behalf Of bitange@jambo.co.ke Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:47 PM To: gshimanyula@ke.uu.net Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
Dear Yawe, Asante sana. You have said it all. We need your participation in reaching all our villages and shanties with the hope of creating wealth there. If we manage to create wealth for our people and they use that wealth to acquire properties, there will be less conflict because they have something to lose. Where I live, I know two politicians from both sides but what is striking is that they are good neighbours. They jealously guard their properties but their supporters in Kibera and Mathare fight and even kill one another.
The ICT Bill is coming up and we need your views on Venacular FM stations. Perhaps we all need to revist Nyerere's philosopy of undugu. There is much to learn from our neighbours in TZ.
Bitange Ndemo.
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