--- 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...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
>
kictanet-bounces+gshimanyula=
ke.uu.net@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
[mailto:
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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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