WITHER CIVIL SOCIETY KENYA?! BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY?
What harsh winds have you run into, O journeyman,
What perils and tempests have you provoked, O wanderer
That now you wither from the Hosts upon whom the suns shine? *********
NB: 1.
Damnatio memoriae CV: Exploits expunged from memory. Curriculum Vitae condemned to oblivion. Expelled from historical memory, and records.
2.
Bagatelisisa ---is now mostly a defunct word, but you may find, as a curiosity, its echo in the English
'bagatelle', with various speculations as to its origins.
Bagatelle just means to 'make small'!
belittle. Especially someones achievements or exploits.
But I have a
new ;D one for you!
Hatshepsut was a female Pharaoh, and for long was co-regent with her much younger step-son Tutmoses, later
Tutmoses III. Current opinion considers her one of the most successful Pharaohs ever ---in the league of
Ramses II, and indeed one of the greatest female leaders in antiquity or modernity, and a master propagandist by deed --
You know like everything in Kenya is named Kenyatta [National Hospital, Avenue, Technology College, University, Airport, Conference center, Toilet, Prison, President --you name it, it is a Kenyatta.] So too it was with the Great Female Pharaoh who officially was a man.
However, lacking in juicy scandals,
Hollywood can not make a blockbuster out of her like they did with
Wild Cleopatra, the ultimate seductress and fornicator, with exploits in bed that would cook a pope in his solitary bed throughout, celibate or not.
Now, it may be
Amenhotep II, s/o
Tutmoses III, who, for his own selfish reasons, initiated the
erasure of Hatshepsut from the history of ancient Egypt, or it may be a senile and brooding Tutmoses, the earlier co-regent,
feeling inadequate of his place in history looking at the
monuments of his step mother, but fact is there began a
systemic program to forget the female Pharaoh, and ignore her out of Egypt's history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HatshepsutBut first a campaign was necessary, where every achievement she did had to be 'belittled', derided, made inconsequential, disparaged; and finally
a body of work created to scientifically underpin the new official/false narrative. --This is the
'bagatelesisa'.Black propaganda. --
Ketho nying.
The word, though not the concept of historical revisionism to suit power, would disappear until a Greek Historian --a kind of
Herodotus, would unearth it and re-interpret it to contemporary usage. On and On. [Egypt-->Greece---->Rome]
It [content] would surface milenia later in old Rome in an instrument called
DAMNATIO MEMORIAE, when a particularly shameful Emperor was purged from the history books, by an act of congress, or
senate as the legislative Assembly was then known.
Later when the institute EMPEROR had evolved into a [DE FACTO] DICTATOR, as in Ceasar, any
dictator of Rome would of course use this instrument to purge from history anybody not to their liking. Not just political opponents they had murdered, but even lovers who displeased them in bed could be condemned post humous to
damnation memoriae. Lost to history forever! The most extreme form of the old Egyptian, pharaonic
bagatalesisa.And why this long sermon?
Because somebody on Jukwaa asked:
why the hatred, the vitriol, the rage at John Githong'o [and his other mates in civil society]? Why the blatant attempt to discredit these hygienic actors in Kenyan politics, an attempt launched by a dirty elite of no moral authority?
Jakaswanga's answer is: BAGATELISISA. And later, Damnatio Memoriae.
But my mind fails me in finding an answer as to why supporters of president elect UK are conducting a damnatio memoriae carriculum vitae John Githong'o!
Any suggestions?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae 
