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Daisy Mwikali
Over half of the nations in Africa are considered to be the poorest countries in the world. Although Africa is perceived as a poor continent, most of our influential leaders are worth millions of dollars. According to Forbes 2018 ranking of the world’s billionaires, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote with a net worth of $13.8 billion is the world’s richest black person.
Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni is the highest earning East African head of state with a monthly salary of Sh1.5 million, followed closely by our very own Uhuru Kenyatta with a monthly pay of Sh 1.4 million. Rwanda’s Paul Kagame comes a distant third, earning half of what his Kenyan counterpart gets. Uhuru Kenyatta earns Sh1.4 million while his deputy William Ruto is entitled to between Sh1 million and Sh1.4 million per month. It means that even Kenya’s deputy president is better paid than most African presidents who do not receive even a million shillings monthly.
Cameroonian president Paul Biya tops the list of the highest paid heads of state in Africa with a monthly salary of Sh5.3 million. Mr Biya has been in office for three and a half decades. Mr Biya’s salary is close to that of top corporate executives in Kenya such as the Kenya Commercial Bank Group’s CEO Joshua Oigara who revealed two yeas ago that he earns Sh4.9 million monthly in salary and allowances. However, even then Cameroonian president’s salary is just about half that of Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore who in 2015 revealed that he was earning an average of Sh9 million monthly.
Daisy Mwikali
All laws that restrict freedom and take up peoples will even when they are not harming others, is oppressive and should not exist in the first place. Sadly, almost all laws on this earth have that element, only that some go too far and are rigid to make it hard for changes.
Daisy Mwikali
There is no Greater Agony Than Bearing an Untold Story Inside You. Even beyond her work, theres very little that is said of Maya’s life before the limelight, the challenges she faces asa woman having no food and shelter and even selling her body through prostitution to make ends meet. Despite this she came out stronger and became a better person moulded by these experiences.
Daisy Mwikali
This can be true to some people and false to others. It all depends on one’s priorities and what makes them happy in life. Some people find fulfilment in helping others while some find it in other things. Who are we to judge what works for others?
Daisy Mwikali
Sometimes it is not always about liking things about them, it can also be about creating new things, ideas and experiences together. For example… Like children.
People keep changing, if you get stuck to what you liked about someone initially, you may end up losing out on what more they can be.
Daisy Mwikali
I have seen it too. It means that someone found your profile after clicking on your name from a post or link that appeared on LinkedIn’s homepage.
There are other similar LinkedIn labels like:
“found you via linkedin search” meaning someone found you after specifically searching for your name within the LinkedIn profile search variable.
“found you via linkedin profile” meaning someone found you after seeing a suggestion of your profile on someone else’s profile.
“found via linkedin company pages” meaning someone found you via a page you have liked or listed as your workplace.
“found you via other meaning’ not sure but probably means someone found your profile through some other external search engine like google or bing.
Daisy Mwikali
This is a very interesting proposition and you would think it should go without saying. I am glad you brought it up because people seem to have lost touch with reality and basic ethical behaviour.
What you have described above is however not quite prejudice. The actual definition of Prejudice is a pre-judgement that is based on opinions or feelings held before having facts and evidence.
Age-shaming, baby-shaming, marriage-shaming are acts of discrimination. Of course they are rooted in prejudice which starts as an innocent pattern-based stereotype.
Prejudice actually develops from stereotypes often after observing or experiencing patterns of behaviour and occurrences. Just like stereotypes, prejudice is harmless because they are held internally. It is just a feeling one strongly believes in but does not project it out by treating the people in question differently. It is just a thought or feeling without action.
Stereotypes are actually patterns assigned to groups. They may not be necessarily negative or incorrect but the issue comes when these stereotypes become the expected behaviour.
What you are talking about here is discrimination. I.e. an action or observable behaviour. Sometimes it is intentional but most time it is unconsciously driven by the prejudice you hold towards a person or group. This is often based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, age and other factors.
When you hear about racism, we are just talking about discrimination based on race. Or sexism would be discrimination based on ones sex/gender etc.
An example of a stereotype could be this: Most people tend to get married in their 20 and so society automatically expects you to get married when you hit your 20’s too… Kalenjins are the best runners in world. Since Kalenjin’s are Kenyan, people from other parts of the world may associate the running stereotype with every Kenyan. This is not said out loud and is just a public secret.
When people take up this pattern and associate it with a person even without saying anything, it becomes prejudice. At that level, it is still a harmless pattern. However, when they act on the prejudice and treat you differently based on this or any other factor it now full-blown discrimination.
After discrimination, the idea of “better than the others” is adopted. People feel like one group is better than the other based on the above mentioned factors. This usually leads to the development of negative euphemisms like eg. Negro in the USA, Coloured in South Africa to Hustler for someone who doesn’t have a job and sugar-mummy or daddy to older, rich people who are not married but are still dating.
These three constructs: Stereotype, Prejudice and Discrimination often happen in unison. So, they end up being used interchangeably and it is not easy to draw the line between them.
The solution to this is to celebrate diversity and to connect with people on a personal level rather than see them as a group. Differences actually add on to the richness of culture. If we are all the same, we could as well just be called robots.
Daisy Mwikali
The education System will remain defective for a very long time. We have very many facets involved that to achieve what you have described here is almost dreamy.
First, if we ever get past the curriculum hurdle we will be faced by the issue of pedagogy. Teachers are not always the brightest products of the system. How do we expect Teachers to make sense of a new system, after being dumbed down by the current system and passing it along to thousands of students for decades? They need some training and orientation: but even this would not be enough… Perhaps they should go through some serious brain washing or reprogramming!
Secondly, once we are done with the pedagogy, we need to talk about the associated arms. Schooling is closely connected to media, politics, economy, religion, infrastructure… etc. A new curriculum will not flourish as it should with the same old corrupt social institutions.
Third, who is redesigning this entire system? Is it the same people who have held these positions for years or will new and fresh minds be involved? And once it has been changes, how often will the update process happen?
I could go on and on… but this is the bare minimum they can do and is probably a step in the right direction.
We need to treat the Schooling System like a computer software:
1. Acknowledge that bugs will develop anytime and have engineers standby to fix them.
2. Schedule regular updates to continually improve it from time to time even when there are no visible defects.
3. Involve the consumers of education in the development process. That way students, teachers and parents can all have a sense of ownership.
Daisy Mwikali
I agree it can be a great source of fun as well as opens up your mind to places you don’t normally think bout. In that sense, I like the whole idea.
Daisy Mwikali
The concept of a unified currency has been seen to work for other countries. Look at the Euro for example. I guess the USD is also an example because if each state in the US had its own currency, they wouldn’t be as strong as they are today.
The question of an African Currency goes beyond unity and economics. We need to consider the political state of the different African countries. We are very diverse and even have different goals, ideologies, international partners… etc.
With this aside, a united African currency will definitely make Africa stronger but may not automatically fix our economic issues like debt and so on.
It is a good idea indeed but we have a lot of domestic issues and selfish interests that will affect the actualisation of such a currency in the near future.
I however for-see a united africa with a centralised government that will inevitably have one strong currency. It may take decades or even centuries to get there but it is a high possibility.