Post by Onyango Oloo on Oct 17, 2017 15:23:34 GMT 3
Today is October 17th.
For those who are familiar with the world’s revolutionary calendar it happens to be the centenary of the Russian Revolution-a cataclysmic event which shook the globe an triggered events as far as China, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Cuba, India and South Africa.
I am pretty sure there will be commemorations in many countries. I do not know if the same will prevail in Kenya.
So, in my own small way and on behalf of the handful of Marxist-Leninists in our tortured but very fighting neo-colonized enclave, I doff of my heart to Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Kollontai Nadhezhda Krupskaya, Clara Zetkin and all those revolutionaries who made the Soviet Experience a dream come true.
But having said that, my main object of writing today is to announce a moratorium.
To be specific, a moratorium on Onyango Oloo.
I am hereby announcing that starting on October 20th, 2017, I, Onyango Oloo will stop writing any digital essays on Jukwaa and cease distributing my posts on Facebook, Twitter, Googel+, KPTJ or any of the many e-mail groups that I belong to.
The reason for this moratorium is paradoxical, but really quite simple.
So far, I have started over 5,400 topics on Jukwaa, the discussion forum I launched in August 2005. In the 8 years that I have been on Facebook, i have accumulated close to the limit of 5,000 friends- reminding of the wry quip by Bill Gates when he was quitting that popular social media platform that no one can have so many ACTUAL friends in real life. I am constantly on Twitter and my e-mail inbox is bursting at the seams.
So what gives?
Well, this moratorium is to give me the freedom to WRITE MORE.
For those who still don’t get it, let me break it down.
You see, Onyango Oloo is always WRITING.
Every day and every night.
Most of my pieces are political, ideological, polemical.
And it is precisely WHY I am announcing that that starting on what Kenyans celebrate as Mashujaa Day(Sheroes/Heroes Day), Onyango Oloo will not compose a single sentence in English, Kiswahili,Luo or Sheng that touches on one country in Africa called Kenya.
I am doing this in order precisely to WRITE SOME MORE.
Some of my friends and family members already know that I am working on a manuscript or two or three.
Given the energy I spent on digital essays every single night, guess how many chapters of how many books I would have completed by now? Anybody who is familiar with my pieces must be familiar with the vast amount of research and reading that I do, references and citations that I make. This apart from the professional work that I do as a paid consultant.
How about if I divert that energy to completing just one book?
So folks on Jukwaa, Facebook,Twitter, Goole+,KPTJ and other e-mail forums, this is Onyango Oloo saying Sayonara and Adios.
You will hear from me when my new book is being launched.
Which should be quite SOON I promise everyone.
For those who are familiar with the world’s revolutionary calendar it happens to be the centenary of the Russian Revolution-a cataclysmic event which shook the globe an triggered events as far as China, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Cuba, India and South Africa.
I am pretty sure there will be commemorations in many countries. I do not know if the same will prevail in Kenya.
So, in my own small way and on behalf of the handful of Marxist-Leninists in our tortured but very fighting neo-colonized enclave, I doff of my heart to Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Kollontai Nadhezhda Krupskaya, Clara Zetkin and all those revolutionaries who made the Soviet Experience a dream come true.
But having said that, my main object of writing today is to announce a moratorium.
To be specific, a moratorium on Onyango Oloo.
I am hereby announcing that starting on October 20th, 2017, I, Onyango Oloo will stop writing any digital essays on Jukwaa and cease distributing my posts on Facebook, Twitter, Googel+, KPTJ or any of the many e-mail groups that I belong to.
The reason for this moratorium is paradoxical, but really quite simple.
So far, I have started over 5,400 topics on Jukwaa, the discussion forum I launched in August 2005. In the 8 years that I have been on Facebook, i have accumulated close to the limit of 5,000 friends- reminding of the wry quip by Bill Gates when he was quitting that popular social media platform that no one can have so many ACTUAL friends in real life. I am constantly on Twitter and my e-mail inbox is bursting at the seams.
So what gives?
Well, this moratorium is to give me the freedom to WRITE MORE.
For those who still don’t get it, let me break it down.
You see, Onyango Oloo is always WRITING.
Every day and every night.
Most of my pieces are political, ideological, polemical.
And it is precisely WHY I am announcing that that starting on what Kenyans celebrate as Mashujaa Day(Sheroes/Heroes Day), Onyango Oloo will not compose a single sentence in English, Kiswahili,Luo or Sheng that touches on one country in Africa called Kenya.
I am doing this in order precisely to WRITE SOME MORE.
Some of my friends and family members already know that I am working on a manuscript or two or three.
Given the energy I spent on digital essays every single night, guess how many chapters of how many books I would have completed by now? Anybody who is familiar with my pieces must be familiar with the vast amount of research and reading that I do, references and citations that I make. This apart from the professional work that I do as a paid consultant.
How about if I divert that energy to completing just one book?
So folks on Jukwaa, Facebook,Twitter, Goole+,KPTJ and other e-mail forums, this is Onyango Oloo saying Sayonara and Adios.
You will hear from me when my new book is being launched.
Which should be quite SOON I promise everyone.
