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Post by Onyango Oloo on Nov 19, 2014 15:58:56 GMT 3
A Digital Essay by Onyango Oloo in NairobiLast night, November 18, 2014, I went to sleep earlier and must have missed the breaking news on Kenyan television. It is only this morning, when I was listening to the BBC when I heard Alan Kasujja, the Ugandan born co-host of News Day mention casually while browsing the online editions of the Nairobi dailies that Senator Otieno Kajwang’ had just passed on. Unlike the gazillions who are going into overdrive with the effusive eulogies and myth making obituaries about Otieno Kajwang', I did NOT KNOW THE MAN-apart from the slightly torn and worn renditions of “ Bado Mapambano” at ODM and CORD rallies over the years. That is why I placed an early phone call to a very good friend of mine who hails from Oyugis but works in Nairobi. We used to live together many years ago and she happens to be a bosom buddy of an ex wife of the former minister who has just rejoined the ancestors. I wanted my friend to give me the contacts of the former Mrs. Kajwang’ because that was the closest I could get in conveying my personal condolences to the late Senator’s family. I met Otieno Kajwang’ in person only once in my life. I was on my way to meet my friend Gitobu Imanyara at his County Hall office opposite Parliament sometime in early 2009 and as I walking past the Co-op Bank opposite the Professional Centre, I saw Hon. Otieno Kajwang’– who was then Minister for Immigration in the Grand Coalition Government-standing at the entrance of the bank, glancing at his watch, apparently waiting for someone. I recognized him and politely walked up a couple of steps from the pavement to greet him. Senator Kajwang’ was very courteous extending a hand accompanied with his broad smile. I was surprised at how gentle and warm his handshake was. Unlike the egregarious and boisterous politician I often saw dancing on makeshift platforms in open air stadia, the man who greeted me was soft spoken, almost shy in his demeanour. The passing of Senator Otieno Kajwang’ is without a doubt, a blow to ODM and the entire CORD family and his absence will be a little like Harambee Stars without Victor Wanyama or McDonald Mariga in the line up. More articulate, passionate aficionados of the official opposition have expressed the demise of the Singing and Dancing Senator more eloquently. By the way, for strict historical record, Kenyans should know that the campaign rally ditty associated with the late Senator Bado Mapambano was actually composed by artists and activists coalescing around Release Political Prisoners. Kajwang' merely appropriated and helped to popularize that freedom song. I have never been a member of ODM or CORD although I have always been close to some of the top ODM/CORD insiders. I will therefore not claim any special political or ideological insights into the relative merits and demerits of the late Otieno Kajwang’. The reason I reflect on his abrupt departure to the other side of the grave is because his party and coalition have been rocked by so many internal wrangles, power plays, schisms and prima donna moments that one must imagine that his death, coming at this particular time, is hardly likely to pass unnoticed. I will not be entirely surprised to read, in the coming days, earnest calls by some of his supporters to anoint his younger brother Tom, who is a sitting member of the National Assembly representing one of the Nairobi constituencies as his heir and successor in the Senate. They will be those who will want to “reward” his spouse, or even his uncle with the seat. Within ODM and CORD itself, I am sure there is no shortage of likely replacements. All that is good and it will be apparent within a short period which personality will fill that void. I am not a soothsayer, fortune teller, jujuman, mganga or sangoma by profession so I will not engage in any tea leaf reading or crystal ball gazing rituals. In fact since I am from Gem in Siaya County (among counties, the others being Nairobi, Mombasa and Kakamega, but that is another story) I can not grasp the intricacies of the convuluted Homa Bay politics nor do I know the potential impact of the Kalausi Factor in South Nyanza politics. So I will not feign to be a guru over matters which I am totally ignorant of. Instead, I will restrict myself at this point in time to analyzing how the death of Otieno Kajwang’ weighs on Raila Odinga’s chances of finally achieving his ambition to be President come 2017.
Unlike the rabid Jubilee storm troopers who appear to have successfully invaded, like the notorious IS/Daesh of Syria and Iraq, and taken over huge swathes of territory in social media spaces like the Facebook open groups Bunge la Mwananchi and others, I am not among those who have dismissed Raila’s chances of winning come the next elections.Even though, as an ardent Marxist-Leninist, I CRINGE whenever I read of Raila embracing Fukuyama and other icons of neo-liberalism, I am still convinced that at the mainstream national political stage, NO ONE comes close to the son of Kenya’s first vice president in offering a modicum of a reformist alternative to the current crop of dyed-in-wool neo-colonial tribalists in the Uhuruto Jubilee maladministration. With his feet of clay, Raila Odinga has the potential, like a Joshua of biblical yore in helping Kenyans to usher in a new democratic dawn, sampling titbits of the promises of the 2010 Constitution, as a TRANSITIONAL figure-in very much the same way that Nelson Mandela’s historic mission of doing the first leg of the post-apartheid relay before handing over the baton to Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe, Jacob Zuma and other mentees. It will be an important breakthrough for the fledgling broad based Kenyan nationald democratic movement that someone like Raila Amolo Odinga spearheads a total break to half a century of KANU corruption, tribalism and state terrorism. But from recent history, especially during the former Langata MP’s short stint as Co-Principal and Prime Minister we know that Raila Odinga can not and will not do it alone or on his own volition. Raila had too much baggage; too many favours owed; conflicting and contending ethnic constituencies. Unfortunately, Raila’s populist and popular charisma attracted like moths a motley crew of careerists, technocrats, self-seekers and opportunists, not excluding well known drug dealers and white collar criminals-who Onyango Oloo is NOT about to name in this particular essay. The late Senator Otieno Kajwang’ was part of that heavy baggage that Raila Odinga would not and could not dislodge. Over the last eight years, Otieno Kajwang’ became increasingly unpopular, even in his native Mbita and Homa Bay, such that upstarts like the National Intelligence Service top bureaucratSam Wakiaga came within a whisker of snatching the crown. Were it not for Raila’s fealty to Kajwang in reciprocity for the future senator's sycophantic loyalty to Agwambo, Otieno Kajwang’ and other deadwood from Luo Nyanza would have been swept from the political scene.Instead, because of the former Prime Minister’s stubborn refusal to abandon his veteran allies, there were widespread allegations of vote rigging in the ODM primary nomination exercise in 2013 just before the elections with the subsequent fallout which led to strong candidates decamping to other parties as evidenced by the results in Muhoroni, Alego, Kisumu, Nyali and in the Mombasa senatorial race. In Siaya’s fiercely contested gubernatorial race many observers actually believe that the maverick William Oduol actually won, only to be crushed by weight of the Odinga juggernaut. A lot of ODM sympathizers were skeptical of the apparent wins of people like James Rege , Ken Obura and ironically, even Otieno Kajwang’ himself. There is a strong feeling in CORD strongholds that the dissaray in ODM made it easier for Jubilee to rig the Presidential elections in 2013. It is therefore my strong belief that as early as now, when the remains of the late Senator Otieno Kajwang’ are still fresh in Lee Funeral Home or whichever morgue they are lying in, Raila Odinga should plan an intricate, well organized quasi state funeral for his departed friend.With Kajwang’ final interrment, Agwambo should also consign to the political grave, all the expendable deadwood in Nyanza and elsewhere in the country who have been thwarting his would be progressive vision.
More crucially and poignantly, Raila Amolo Odinga must realize NOW, in November 2014 that his ONLY REMAINING HOPE to become President in 2017 is to MOVE POLITICALLY TO THE LEFT, FIRST TO THE CENTRE-LEFT THEN FURTHER to embrace the consistent democrats, social democrats, patriotic nationalists and revolutionaries in that part of the Kenyan ideological spectrum.Unlike the fair weather friends who purchased their ODM tickets with millions in 2013 and are now abandoning him to embrace Jubilee like Ababu Namwamba, Dalmas Otieno, Mwashetani, Mungaro and his ilk in 2014, there are those of us who have NEVER been in ODM but have ALWAYS campaigned tenaciously and voted consistently for Raila Odinga in 1997, 2007 and 2013 because in him resides our faltering hopes that we can bring to a close the long chapter of Jomo/Moi/Kibaki/Uhuru KANU misrule that has bedevilled Kenya since 1963.
Someone like me is personally THRILLED that the turncoats and would be so called “moles” are jumping ship to work openly with their true political masters. Obviously ODM needs to be reconfigured; new alliances with forces like the SDP, civil society; independent trade unions and sections of the media must be forged. The existential threat posed by the quasi military creeping Bonapartism of the Uhuru/Ruto regime is real; it is palpable, it must be rolled back and defeated.
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Nov 19, 2014 18:09:28 GMT 3
Comment from Rose Kahendi on Facebook:
I don't know... People have mythologized Raila so often that this has become a widely accepted mantra. But I sincerely have my doubts... The current state of ODM, including the abundance of so-called moles, is reflective of its leadership and its larger organizational culture. If there is something we need to put under a microscope, it's the leadership style of Raila and his colleagues. Why are they so incapable of creating *a system that works*?
I think all the wrangles and backstabbing and resentments that define ODM today would define our national government if ODM had won the last elections. In other words, there wouldn't be a new democratic dawn. There would be a government of squabbling cliques, trading accusations and counter-accusations, and quickly sidelining non-Luos. And the kleptocracy would have continued. The only thing that may have been somewhat different is the state of national security. But different does not necessarily translate into better. We've seen stories flying around in the blogosphere about party insiders (unnamed of course) involved in the small arms trade and whatnot. And don't forget those ethnic gangs/militias...
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Nov 19, 2014 18:10:43 GMT 3
Comment from Pintoomolo Omolo on Facebook:
Onyango Oloo, this article is right on point but the heading is a bit insensitive...
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Post by OtishOtish on Nov 19, 2014 18:31:34 GMT 3
Comment from Pintoomolo Omolo on Facebook: Onyango Oloo, this article is right on point but the heading is a bit insensitive... Can debate the first part. Agree with the red. Suggest change.
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Post by podp on Nov 19, 2014 20:54:08 GMT 3
Comment from Pintoomolo Omolo on Facebook: Onyango Oloo, this article is right on point but the heading is a bit insensitive... Can debate the first part. Agree with the red. Suggest change. to be sensitive I start with.... I've been a rambler, all my life Been a bet it all gambler Yeah I let it all ride Never been afraid of losin Yeah there's been times I've lost it all But it wont really matter Someday when I'm gone You can bury me on Deadwood Mountain By my brother Wild Bill and sister Calamity Jane Don't bring me no flowers Just a six gun smokin Put me eight feet down When you bury me Put me eight feet down When you bury me When your heart runs deeper Then a ghost town gold mine You just know your bound to find that motherload You'll spend your last heartbeat chasing after rainbows No there's no place you won't go To win one more time You can bury me on Deadwood Mountain By my brother Wild Bill and sister Calamity Jane Don't bring me no flowers Just a six gun smokin Put me eight feet down When you bury me Put me eight feet down When you bury me And cover me a little extra deep Cause that's the only way I'm ever gonna rest in peace You can bury me on Deadwood Mountain By my brother Wild Bill and sister Calamity Jane Don't bring me no flowers Just a six gun smokin Put me eight feet down When you bury me Put me eight feet down When you bury me www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/big-&-rich/deadwood-mountain-12922.htmlnow that is over with my take on OO is that he is spot on on the thesis of the styles of exercise of authority, idiosyncratic mannerisms of certain colourful individual leaders, or the socio-cultural practices of states and indi- viduals occupying different positions within them, the concept has little analytical con- tent and no predictive value with respect to economic policy and performance. www.iffs.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2013_1_thandika_mkandawire.pdfthinking of RAO and his departed court jester per excellence. the co- existence between modernity and tradition – dualism, indeed – represented an inevitable phase in the process of development. The elites of developing countries might therefore use their charisma and other cultural symbols to mobilize and galvanise their societies, or to ensure political stability. and there in lie RAO's Achilles heel. the idea of “neopatrimonialism was use to explain why African societies were not “modernising”, and the failure of “charis- matic leaders” who were overthrown or whose image had lost the lustre of liberation struggles. Yet presumably because, for much of the decade, African economies per- formed well; as well as the rise of the Dependency School, which had a focus on exter- nal factors, the idea did not catch on. The new reality held that the marriage be- tween tradition and modernity was not only an unhappy (albeit inevitable) one; but also lethal to both the partners and their offspring. Somehow, Africa had managed to com- bine features of tradition and modernity into a concoction which had proven to be a de- bilitating witch’s brew. Beneath the veneer of modernity flaunted by local elites was a world of irrational belief, superstition and primordial sense of selective interest. Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki and now Uhuru tend all the time to keep us wondering....wondoring “Why is it that African leaders refuse to implement what are obviously ‘Good Policies’ which have been fruitfully adopted by other parts of the world? Or why do they adopt policies that impoverish their citizens?’’ For those who had placed much faith in the nationalist project, the question was: “What went wrong?” the Neopatrimonialism School approach, which appeals to cultural attributes: although many writers go to great lengths in order to distance themselves from a “cul- turalist” perspective. In both cases, the answers posited invariably point towards some form of malevolent state simply acting on behalf of, or at the behest of, ruling interests: a view advanced earlier by “crude Marxism” “Leaders act on behalf of private factions, be they social classes, military cliques or eth- nic groups. They engage in economic redistribution, often from the poor to the rich at the expense of economic growth. my hypothesis is that all the lot from Uhuruto going to RAO we will have neopatrimonialism. this can be interpreted as building on “methodological communalism”, in which the community serves as the foundational unit of analysis, and from whence macro level phenomena are derived.they are all deadwoods. “Why did corruption and cronyism impede growth in some develop- ing countries but not in others?" ‘Does Africa have some inherent character flaw that keeps it backward and incapable of development?’ “Big Man Syndrome” but also a subordinated people, inextricably attached to clientelistic relationships, quiescent and very much complicit in their own exploitation. we need to take ownership of the mess we are in. The prevalence of coercion on the one hand and resistance, defiance and injustice on the other clearly suggest that neo-patrimonial relations are not as self stabilising as it is often presumed. the majority are driven by affection, primordial ties, ritual and superstition; and so mesmerised by "Big Man Syndrome" that they often act in ways at odds with their own interest, in the forlorn expectation that some of the crumbs of patronage will fall their way. There is little explanation for arbitrary restriction of the domain of ration- al behaviour of individuals. Neopatrimonialism undermines governance: not in the sense of “strong society, weak state”; but rather, of “bad society, weak state”. For when the micro-level phenomenon is “extrapolated”, what results is a society with no sense of the public; which condones corruption; and is inhabited by in- dividuals whose focus is their “belly”. The link between this society and the state than produces Africa’s dysfunctional order. Neopatrimonialism ... It has created one of the most problematic paradoxes in contemporary Africa: the existence of a state with no structural roots in society which is a balloon suspended in mid- air, is punctured by excessive demands and unable to function without an indiscriminate and wasteful consumption of scarce societal resources.” With respect to new measures of good governance, neo- patrimonialism is supposed to reduce voice and accountability, weaken government ef- fectiveness and regulatory control, undermine the control of corruption, dilute the rule of law and compromise political stability. if we were able to develop a capitalistic class we have to deal with the hurdle of “The political explanations for the absence of such a class lie, partly, in state leaders not wanting to give up the pat- ronage resources on which their governments are founded, and, partly, on state elites not wanting business to become too successful and independent and thus pose a potential political threat to their regimes” we do have goat *kwami amekula mbuzi ya nani?* and now chicken eaters potentially productive elites who have been drawn into this web of neopatrimonial strategies, which undermine productive activities as entrepreneurs respond to the regime of “perverse incentives”...goat and chicken class robber barons. neopatrimonialism does not provide the institutional framework within which capitalism can flourish. It is asserted that neopatrimonialism, with its preference for relationship based transactions, has not been able to provide the bureau- cratic order and predictability that investors need if they are to engage in long term in- vestment. Instead, neopatrimonialism has undermined institutions which ensure property rights: and thus increased uncertainty. when one looks at sugar industry in former Nyanza and Western provinces we note that “The main difficulty with patronage systems is not necessarily the misappropriated state funds, but rather the de pressing effect of an un-level playing field on the development of competitive agricul- tural marketing systems” a disclaimer is that the Neopatrimonialism School’s contribution to the study of capitalism in Africa only produces a sense of déjà vu. The relationship between state and business in Africa is a complicated one, often a source of analytical ambiguities. Ideologies, nation- alism and ethnicity have played an important role in how governments have viewed the emergence of capitalist classes in Africa, in a manner which may have little to do with neopatrimonialism. The Dependence School portrayed African capitalists as much less dynamic than Western “captains of industry”. Fanon characterised the new elites as prematurely senile or decadent before the renaissance. Radical nationalists considered African capitalism merely in terms of “comprador”, “petty” or “lumpen” bourgeoisie, confined to buying and selling; as opposed to a “national bourgeoisie” that produced “captains of industry”. Marxists had the notion of “primitive accumulation”, which pointed to the problems of initiating capitalist accumulation: and suggested that some of the illicit methods used by the “lumpen bourgeoisie” may be an element of such a process. Neopatrimonialism re- peats much of this through its own adjectival assault on the emergent and disorganised African capitalist class, without full acknowledgement of earlier work, Capitalist development does not always originate through a full-blown “capitalist class”: instead, it has often taken place within a tantalising range of class coalitions, cultural expressions and “logics”. It was not, after all, Weber’s “ideal type” which managed the rapid industrialisation of Germany: rather, it was the “alliance of iron and rye" which bound together the more feudal elements of cartels in heavy industry, in a process we refers to as the 'feudalisation of the bourgeoisie' “Logic of Neopatrimonialism” will lead to something even worse -- “crony hyperinflation”. this lends to your hypothesis that deadwoods need to be buried and now
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Post by OtishOtish on Nov 20, 2014 2:34:27 GMT 3
Podp: That was quite a contribution, via Mkandawire, whom you "quote" extensively. (To avoid future confusion, could you please clearly separate your own writing from what is being quoted, e.g. by using a different font for the latter.) I took a look at the document by the prof.---thanks? for providing the link---and there found further details. I really can't comment on any of it, for the simple reason that it is so "heavy" and "deep" that it will take me quite some time to figure out what it has to do with Mr. Kajwang', or ODM, or anything at all. The only thing I have managed to figure out so far is that it is written in English.
Sample this:
Wow. That is some serious stuff! Definitely a tantalising range there of analytical ambiguities ... enough for Kajwang's eulogy beating-up, ODM strategy-makers, and others. But back to ... did you realize that the "objections" you are responding to are about the "heading", and the "heading" alone, of the thread? So, how about we all take a minute and consider just that "heading".
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Post by b6k on Nov 20, 2014 5:00:08 GMT 3
I personally don't see anything wrong with the irreverent "heading" of the piece as it underscores the main thrust of OO's premise that a clique of "deadwood" is holding back ODM, & by extension RAO, from his intended push for a progressive KE. The problem I have is with the assumption that RAO is the sole progressive politician on the Kenyan scene when he has done so much in reality to prove otherwise. None of these ex KANU folks we call leaders will ever change their spots to promote anything but the status quo which revolves around them maintaining power.
Had OO paid keener attention to the content inside his buddy, Miguna Miguna’s, "Peeling Back The Mask" book while he toured the country with the author he would have realised that whatever credentials RAO may hold, progressive isn't one of them. After all he saw first hand as he & Miguna Miguna were Magerered at a book launch in the coast at slingshot point. They experienced the intolerance from the Sanhedrin in Kisumu when they had to be rescued by the police at another book launch. None of these & other close calls were ever condemned by the "progressive" RAO.
The naivety in the piece when it assumes a central political figure is clean if only his kitchen cabinet could be culled or controlled is reminiscent of arguments we've heard as Kenyans over the last 50 plus years. Oh Jomo is good, it's the Kiambu mafia around him that are to blame for his excesses. Oh Nyayo is good, it's the Kalenjin elite around him that are to blame for his excesses. Oh Kibaki's good, it's the Mt Kenya Mafia around him that's to blame for his excesses. Oh Uhuru is good it's his numerous advisors...I think you get the point. It's high time Kenyans came to terms that all our presidents pretty much choose to surround themselves with the people they want to have around them. Those people who do surround them, for the most part, simply do their bidding. The "deadwood" goes to the very top...
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Post by omundustrong on Nov 20, 2014 15:58:08 GMT 3
2017 is way too far,if you asked me i would advocate for policies and programs that empower the people now than think of 2017,the omnipotent and omniscient being above has drawn his diary of who will be around then and who wont be around.Who knew that Gerald Otieno Kajwang would be the late now?For me projects like the clean up of Kibera and other informal settlements makes more sense,the insecurity in the country doesnt make sense,the gap between the poor and the rich doesnt make sense,the reduction in electricity bills makes sense.As to the personalities who will be there in 2017 we leave it to GOD.The corruption in Government doesnt make sense.
As for Raila for 2017 presidency the CORD coalition and the people will decide.
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Post by podp on Nov 20, 2014 21:32:33 GMT 3
Podp: That was quite a contribution, via Mkandawire, whom you "quote" extensively. (To avoid future confusion, could you please clearly separate your own writing from what is being quoted, e.g. by using a different font for the latter.) I took a look at the document by the prof.---thanks? for providing the link---and there found further details. I really can't comment on any of it, for the simple reason that it is so "heavy" and "deep" that it will take me quite some time to figure out what it has to do with Mr. Kajwang', or ODM, or anything at all. The only thing I have managed to figure out so far is that it is written in English.
Sample this:
Wow. That is some serious stuff! Definitely a tantalising range there of analytical ambiguities ... enough for Kajwang's eulogy beating-up, ODM strategy-makers, and others. But back to ... did you realize that the "objections" you are responding to are about the "heading", and the "heading" alone, of the thread? So, how about we all take a minute and consider just that "heading". the reason I had the cowboy song was to atone myself of exactly that or those objections about the heading. sorry I have little regards for the dead. biblehub.com/luke/9-60.htmbiblehub.com/matthew/8-22.htmback to the world of the living we have many dead woods. see ntv.nation.co.ke/news2/topheadlines/badomapambano-homa-bay-mourns-kajwang/the house of the dearly departed is as big as a church. The challenging intellectual task is not to establish the presence of neopatrimonialism throughout Africa. Elements of this political pattern can undoubtedly be found everywhere, including this country. The more challenging project is to explain why African countries vary so greatly in how well they do, both over time and in contrast to one another. Is there room for differing developmental subcategories within the neopatrimonial rubric? (Lofchie, 2002: 846) fond memories of the dearly departed surely resides with those he touched, especially RAO who had a disciple close to him and also a pillar to ODM. on the other side of the political divide will be the jeers, like I had during lunch yesterday two guys conversing in Gikuyu saying 'the good lord decided to stop his heart so that he does not continue giving kamwana difficult times'. so thinking of the 'challenging intellectual task' I have been to Mbita and what I remember about the late GOK was the Safaricom mast on one of his pieces of land. being a pragmatist it occurred to me that he also obtained rent from the mast and doubly informed the 'ignorant' followers how he boosted their reception of Safaricom signal of course not sharing the rent with them. we do have 'problems dealing with agents of change from amongst local elites: because the model itself does not leave room for their existence. With every African locked up in a dyadic relationship of reciprocity, it is difficult to imagine people breaking ranks. With the logic of neopatrimonialism enjoying the status of inexorable force, agents of change are either exogenous, a temporary aberration condemned to revert to the neopatrimonial equilibrium, or opportunists availing themselves of favourable conditions for their ascendancy in the neopatrimonial perking order, ie. one Big Man replacing another.' Insiders in a patrimonial ruling coalition are unlikely to promote reform.... Recruited and sustained with material inducements, lacking an independent political base, and thoroughly compromised in the regime’s corruption, they are dependent on the survival of the incumbent. Insiders typically have risen through the ranks of political service and, apart from top leaders who may have invested in private capital holdings, derive livelihood principally from state or party offices. Because they face the prospect of losing all visible means of support in a political transition, they have little option but to cling to the regime, to sink or swim with it. (Bratton & van de Walle 1997:86) hence I agree with the assertion that OO is correct to call for burial of all dead woods. where I disagree with OO is that much as RAO may appear to him as I wish to 'highlight four interrelated asymmetries that have impeded Africa’s development process—its potential for transformation: the asymmetries of information, power, income and wealth distribution and origination of ideas' 1. Information—the world has seen an explosion in information technology. Many countries have rolled out ICT projects and broadband cables have made “connectivity” simple and fast. Today access and use of technology set the limit to what can be achieved in a range of areas—culture, science and technology, and development more generally. However, in this same world are many who are increasingly cut off from its possibilities and benefits. 2. Power—not so long, Fukuyama, a Stanford Professor wrote a book entitled: “The End of History.” To him ideological debates had been settled and the West and hence the market liberalism had won. This conclusion proved too hasty and illusory. At the national and global levels, the asymmetries in power have tended to elicit disengagement, aloofness, and even cynicism. The youth have become restive all-over the world in the face of reduced opportunities and mass unemployment. Women, half of the African population are in particular disadvantaged. It is said that men fear to allow women into the corridors of power—as they might take over. 3. Income and wealth distribution—this is probably the best known asymmetry, on which tons of books have been written. Millionaires have gone out of fashion, ushering in billionaires. Africa is today considered to be one of the most unequal regions in the world, after Latin America. If things proceed this way, with natural resources booms everywhere, it might become the most unequal region globally in a decade or so. Tunisia spearheaded the Arab Spring, not because it is the poorest country in North Africa, but because inequality was becoming a problem. The youth were losing hope. Income asymmetries slow down the development of the middle class, sustain imported expenditure patterns and ultimately distort the economy. 4. Origination of ideas—many of the ideas that have steered African development have come from somewhere else—since independence you can count socialism (or move to the left); big push (which encouraged the creation of parastatals); basic needs and rural development (influenced by McNamara, President of the World Bank and former Secretary of Defence); Structural adjustment policies (SAPs); MDGs, SDGs, Social inclusion—even the idea of structural transformation. These big ideas have emanated from thinktanks and agencies outside Africa. I would like to argue that borrowing ideas is not a bad thing—what is outright dangerous is not to make them your own or discard them when they don’t work, without alternatives. The blame game will not work in the 21st century. so part of burying the deadwoods is to reclaim ownership by not blindly following anyone = RAO, Uhuruto, etc= without questioning. in an article to be published by Development the Journal for the Society of International Development that in all cases of transformation and more, a number of common facts emerge: • A leadership that is capable of articulating a national development vision, even in the face of imperfect institutional structures, has the best chance of sustaining the transformation process. • The process of economic transformation is not linear. To stay on course, populations must be able/have the means to hold their politicians’ feet to the fire. In other words poor performance must have consequences. • Transformation requires popular engagement, including in taking advantage of emerging domestic opportunities. • Because political influence is unevenly distributed between groups, the distribution of the benefits and the costs of structural transformation will be unequal and could engender domestic tensions—they have to be managed. hope you will not insist on debating the title but as a free world I would like to respect your reservation.
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Nov 21, 2014 1:10:27 GMT 3
Comment by Boaz Waruku on the KPTJ mailing list:
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Post by OtishOtish on Nov 21, 2014 1:12:16 GMT 3
Podp:
That is all very interesting stuff. I will leave Oloo to respond to it, in an appropriately "deep" and "heavy" style. But, again, may I say that I still have trouble with your style of writing---the unusual mix-and-match, cut-and-paste, ... makes it difficult for some of us to get the point of it all. Let me give you a couple of examples from the lengthy piece you gave us earlier.
Take this paragraph:
It had me puzzled, and I struggled to make sense of it; but that was because I assumed you had written all of it, as a single coherent piece (or one meant to be that). Once I read the primary source, I realized that you had written only the bits in blue and then glued on a couple of sentences from a couple of places in the paper by Mkandawire.
Similarly
had me puzzled when I tried to make sense of it ... until I realized that the first and last sentences (blue) were your own glued to an "extract" from Mkandawire's article. (How does the piece between the blue pieces help?)
Another awkward one:
Again, I tried to make sense of it ... until I recognized the mix-and-match: Mkandawire's able assistance to your own bits (in blue).
For a change of pace, in one part you glue Mkandawire's pieces to the outside of yours (in blue):
And so on for the rest of your lengthy contribution, in which I could identify only something like 10 short sentences as your own.
In today's contribution, I quickly identified the pieces from Mkandawire's paper, even though they are not indicated as such. But two pieces puzzled me, in relation to what follow them. This one:
and this one:
I am referring to this chunk:
Except for the pieces in red, everything is "cut-and-paste"---the two large pieces between the "reds"---from the transcript of a speech given (at AMASA 10) by Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa of the African Development Bank .... although there is not the slightest hint to indicate that. If you are not Kayizzi-Mugerwa, then the implications are .... Well, let's just assume that you are Kayizzi-Mugerwa, thank you for an interesting speech etc., and say we look forward to reading further contributions from you.
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Nov 21, 2014 9:04:16 GMT 3
Had OO paid keener attention to the content inside his buddy, Miguna Miguna’s, "Peeling Back The Mask" book while he toured the country with the author he would have realised that whatever credentials RAO may hold, progressive isn't one of them. After all he saw first hand as he & Miguna Miguna were Magerered at a book launch in the coast at slingshot point. They experienced the intolerance from the Sanhedrin in Kisumu when they had to be rescued by the police at another book launch. None of these & other close calls were ever condemned by the "progressive" RAO. b6k:I have opted to respond only to the above segment of your comment. If you, b6k had paid keener attention to my interactions with my close friend Miguna Miguna, you would have realized that he and I had differing assessments on the place of Raila Odinga in Kenyan politics. First of all, I believed that the fall out between Miguna and his boss were as a result of non-antagonistic contradictions. I will not, at this point in time, delve into the full meaning of all that seemingly esoteric Marxist jargon. Secondly, I believed and still believe that despite his obvious ideological, political and human shortcomings, Kenyans could NOT, willy nilly, expel Raila Odinga from the reformist camp. At the launch of his second book, Kidneys for the King, where AGAIN, I played the role of MC, Miguna stated publicly-and it was widely covered by the press-that his friend Onyango Oloo was going to vote for Raila Odinga while he, Miguna, had just endorsed Uhuru Kenyatta. Miguna was of course, referring to myself. Unfortunately, the enraged Jubilee supporters, on hearing this, assumed that it was my name sake, the TNA Secretary General who had apparently switched camps at the 11th hour to vote for his ethnic kinsman, rather than the man who was signing his cheques!Onyango Oloo Nairobi
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Post by podp on Nov 22, 2014 18:22:37 GMT 3
Podp: But, again, may I say that I still have trouble with your style of writing---the unusual mix-and-match, cut-and-paste, ... makes it difficult for some of us to get the point of it all. Let me give you a couple of examples from the lengthy piece you gave us earlier. Take this paragraph: It had me puzzled, and I struggled to make sense of it; but that was because I assumed you had written all of it, as a single coherent piece (or one meant to be that). Once I read the primary source, I realized that you had written only the bits in blue and then glued on a couple of sentences from a couple of places in the paper by Mkandawire. Another awkward one: For a change of pace, in one part you glue Mkandawire's pieces to the outside of yours (in blue): And so on for the rest of your lengthy contribution, in which I could identify only something like 10 short sentences as your own. In today's contribution, I quickly identified the pieces from Mkandawire's paper, even though they are not indicated as such. But two pieces puzzled me, in relation to what follow them. This one: ........... ---from the transcript of a speech given (at AMASA 10) by Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa of the African Development Bank .... although there is not the slightest hint to indicate that. If you are not Kayizzi-Mugerwa, then the implications are .... Well, let's just assume that you are Kayizzi-Mugerwa, thank you for an interesting speech etc., and say we look forward to reading further contributions from you. red highlight only red herrings are made of such rejoinders. aim is very clear and kudos for the attempt. you are not the first and projecting to the future you will not be the last. there was one Omwega who also took an interest of analyzing inputs I attempted with lenses of a scholar just before an article is published in a peer reviewed journal. you are also welcome to take the same measures but let me assure you whatever I write on Jukwaa I never intend to use it for my carrier development and hence claim that it is my own publication. I also do not intend to change just because you take the trouble to use www.plagtracker.com as if what I put here is owned for scholar to scholar review purpose. however if you do ask I will provide you with sources I obtain most of the material I post here if freely available on www or the books, articles etc from where I source. as for the AfDB piece the article is yet to be published. let me assure you if you pick my brains or any other individual for that matter and before the contents are published in a peer reviewed journal you or anyone else deserves no reference as an originator of the ideas as they are still under development. once Steve's article is published we will reference him but that publication is not yet out hence he does not yet deserve accolades. thank you again for making me remember Omwega and always feel welcome to use www.plagtracker.com and point out the origins of my contents. pity that you are not in a position to have a student-reader (supervisor) relations with yours truly now or in any foreseeable future, you would have cherished the experience
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Post by OtishOtish on Nov 22, 2014 21:44:01 GMT 3
Podp: You should have quit while you were "ahead". No, no, no. That won't do. The material is "not under development"; and even if it were, it is still the work of another person. The fact is that the guy gave the speech, and the transcript of that speech was widely circulated. What you then did is glue a couple of sentences of your own to pieces from the transcript and flog it off as all your own. You gave absolutely no indication that it was Steve's work, and I doubt many Jukwaaists realized that it was not your work. I attach the transcripts. Overcoming Asymmetries--Key note speech La....docx (39.02 KB) As anyone will able to see, you cut a huge piece from pages 4-5 and another from pages 9-10 and then glued them together with three sentences of your own. Nowhere do you indicate the source, and the very least you could have done was mention Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa. The notion that you did not have to do so because it has not been published in a journal is absurd. The notion that he does not deserve accolades for his work because it is not in a journal is an equally absurd reason to give for the theft of a person's work. We are not talking about what is in someone's brain! The stuff is written down, has been made public, and all you have done is to cut-and-paste and flog it off as your own!And this is not the first time either. In an effort to make your writing look "deep" and "heavy", you have a bad habit of improperly "borrowing" others' work, inserting a few sentences of your own that appear relevant to the topic at hand, and then trying to pass all off as your own. There are two reasons why you should consider changing: (a) In quite a few cases you have used material that is protected by copyright law and in a manner that contravenes "fair use" policies. That could get Jukwaa (or at least Oloo) into trouble if the authors took exception to your behavior. (b) The results of your near-random cut-and-paste, mix-and-match are incomprehensible pieces of mumbo-jumbo. For example, what on earth do the following paragraphs mean? Is this supposed to tell anyone anything about Raila and Kajwang? If so, what exactly? (And don't come up with the old "it's deep and heavy and requires deep and heavy thinking".) I encourage you to try and communicate; write things that people can actually understand. And if you feel you must be "deep" and "heavy", try to do so on your own steam.I do not need such tools. What never occurs to you as you cut-and-paste, mix-and-match---and which always alerts me---is the sharp differences in style: rough-and-ready sentences cobbled together with highly polished pieces, in a combination that makes absolutely no sense at all. That would be a very short relationship, because I would quickly get you tossed out on your ear for (a) unmitigated intellectual theft, i.e. plagiarism, and (b) the use of stolen goods to produce a ceaseless flow of mumbo-jumbo and, in particular, the use of said mumbo-jumbo to viciously assault the brains of unsuspecting readers. ATTACHMENT: Transcript--Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Keynote Address delivered at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the African Science Academies (AMASA 10) on Ensuring Country Ownership of Africa’s Development Agenda Beyond 2015 at Lake Victoria Serena Resort Hotel, Kampala, Uganda
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 22, 2014 22:06:10 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/I-am-Kajwang-wife/-/1056/2531206/-/bv4q28z/-/index.htmlI really did not intend to come back on a sardonic tone like this. But reality is reality. The ever-entertaining Otieno Kajwang' has left us some loose ends to entertain ourselves with as he rests one way or another. So today at the Lee funeral home, there was high drama, as it appeared there are more Mrs. Kajwang's than the coterie of political body stripers –-including Siaya senator James Orengo, care to admit in public. In Luoland it is usually that, well-known concubines are denied a place of honour in the funeral rites as a method of disinheriting them and, effectively, pauperising their children. It is with this wisdom in mind that the double-dealing pantomime face of James Orengo, colluding to publicly deny Vivian Otieno and her Kajwang's children the opportunity to view the body of their beloved hubby and dad respectively, particularly becomes a revealing diagnostic aid of the twisted minds of would-be progressives like Ajimmy wuod nyar Alego. There is top Kenya lawyer Orengo, pretender progressive and failed land's minister, in his auspice as senior member of the funeral committee of the late nyakwar Nyakwamba Kajwang', effectively moving to sideline Kajwang's second wife, Vivian. Kwani Orengo girigi bende yande Kajwang' ng'otho, mi ging'eyo nyiekegi ma mpango wa kando gi ma ok mpango wa kando? –-These mercenary Siaya idiots should keep their akwede on their side of the gulf. Now Kajwang' is dead, suddenly he has only one wife!? That is a narrative which will not hold in Mbita in mzee Kajwang's clan and home. The maritally monogamous GOK is a fiction cooked in orange house by those who want to inherit a single widow, so they plot to concentrate all Kajwang's earthly belongings in the respective widows hands, where, soon, they can begin to wallow in it. –--It is the economy stupid! Scavenger economics!
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Post by podp on Nov 22, 2014 23:07:05 GMT 3
Podp: You should have quit while you were "ahead".No, no, no. That won't do. The material is "not under development"; and even if it were, it is still the work of another person. The fact is that the guy gave the speech, and the transcript of that speech was widely circulated. What you then did is glue a couple of sentences of your own to pieces from the transcript and flog it off as all your own. You gave absolutely no indication that it was Steve's work, and I doubt many Jukwaaists realized that it was not your work. I attach the transcripts. View AttachmentAs anyone will able to see, you cut a huge piece from pages 4-5 and another from pages 9-10 and then glued them together with three sentences of your own. Nowhere do you indicate the source, and the very least you could have done was mention Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa. The notion that you did not have to do so because it has not been published in a journal is absurd. The notion that he does not deserve accolades for his work because it is not in a journal is an equally absurd reason to give for the theft of a person's work. We are not talking about what is in someone's brain! The stuff is written down, has been made public, and all you have done is to cut-and-paste and flog it off as your own!And this is not the first time either. In an effort to make your writing look "deep" and "heavy", you have a bad habit of improperly "borrowing" others' work, inserting a few sentences of your own that appear relevant to the topic at hand, and then trying to pass all off as your own.There are two reasons why you should consider changing: (a) In quite a few cases you have used material that is protected by copyright law and in a manner that contravenes "fair use" policies. That could get Jukwaa (or at least Oloo) into trouble if the authors took exception to your behavior. (b) The results of your near-random cut-and-paste, mix-and-match are incomprehensible pieces of mumbo-jumbo. For example, what on earth do the following paragraphs mean? Is this supposed to tell anyone anything about Raila and Kajwang? If so, what exactly? (And don't come up with the old "it's deep and heavy and requires deep and heavy thinking".) I encourage you to try and communicate; write things that people can actually understand. And if you feel you must be "deep" and "heavy", try to do so on your own steam.I do not need such tools. What never occurs to you as you cut-and-paste, mix-and-match---and which always alerts me---is the sharp differences in style: rough-and-ready sentences cobbled together with highly polished pieces, in a combination that makes absolutely no sense at all. That would be a very short relationship, because I would quickly get you tossed out on your ear for (a) unmitigated intellectual theft, i.e. plagiarism, and (b) the use of stolen goods to produce a ceaseless flow of mumbo-jumbo and, in particular, the use of said mumbo-jumbo to viciously assault the brains of unsuspecting readers. ATTACHMENT: Transcript--Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Keynote Address delivered at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the African Science Academies (AMASA 10) on Ensuring Country Ownership of Africa’s Development Agenda Beyond 2015 at Lake Victoria Serena Resort Hotel, Kampala, Uganda
at this rate you need to create a post on 'how to contribute to Jukwaa'. otherwise who makes speeches for most heads of institutions? imagine quoting a Presidents' speech and acting as if it was his/her work(s) when we all know the materials in most cases are pieced together by aids and the main ownership the President has is reading the speech. if it were a Sunday or a Friday I would consider your counsel unfortunately this is no holy place or day. glad for the feedback though. much appreciated. like it. thanks
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Post by podp on Nov 22, 2014 23:24:37 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/I-am-Kajwang-wife/-/1056/2531206/-/bv4q28z/-/index.htmlI really did not intend to come back on a sardonic tone like this. But reality is reality. The ever-entertaining Otieno Kajwang' has left us some loose ends to entertain ourselves with as he rests one way or another. So today at the Lee funeral home, there was high drama, as it appeared there are more Mrs. Kajwang's than the coterie of political body stripers –-including Siaya senator James Orengo, care to admit in public. I n Luoland it is usually that, well-known concubines are denied a place of honour in the funeral rites as a method of disinheriting them and, effectively, pauperising their children. It is with this wisdom in mind that the double-dealing pantomime face of James Orengo, colluding to publicly deny Vivian Otieno and her Kajwang's children the opportunity to view the body of their beloved hubby and dad respectively, particularly becomes a revealing diagnostic aid of the twisted minds of would-be progressives like Ajimmy wuod nyar Alego. [/i] [/quote][/quote] red high light no it is not a Luoland only item, but universal, almost. When Mutula kicked the bucket, there emerged a side dish he had started eating when she was still underage. Nobody demonstrated. After Otieno , we have another he has been eating for 19 years. 19yrs ago I was still in lower primary. It also happened with Samuel Wanjiru only that instead of one side dish, he had a whole buffet.....The sad reality is that even with us husslers, we have mpando wa pangos. It is only that they fear showing up in our death for fear of having to contribute to funeral expenses. The death of a rich man opens a can of worms because the worms know that they will be compensated for the damaged can. But with a poor man, the worms fear being asked to pay for the damaged can. But we prefer to live in denial. #sipsajameson it makes hilarious reading that #sipsajameson and tickles although describing dead men. as we bury GOK, all other ODM deadwoods need to be buried too...including our secret 'polygamous' past time
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Post by podp on Nov 23, 2014 0:04:52 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/I-am-Kajwang-wife/-/1056/2531206/-/bv4q28z/-/index.htmlThat is a narrative which will not hold in Mbita in mzee Kajwang's clan and home. The maritally monogamous GOK is a fiction cooked in orange house by those who want to inherit a single widow, so they plot to concentrate all Kajwang's earthly belongings in the respective widows hands, where, soon, they can begin to wallow in it. –-- It is the economy stupid! Scavenger economics![ [/i] [/quote][/quote] red high light have heard and read of vulture economics www.opendemocracy.net/jessica-sequeira/beyond-vulture-economics“Vulture economics” is the term one might use to refer to a certain stereotype of “mainstream” or “neoliberal” economic thought which tends to provoke a visceral negative reaction in Argentines, at least those supporting the policies of President Cristina Kirchner. But does any alternative exist? The typology of scavenger economies reveals their sources of sustenance: I like the second source...Criminal - These economies are infiltrated by criminal gangs or suffused with criminal behaviour. Such infiltration is two phased: the properly criminal phase and the money laundering one. In the first phase, criminal activities yield income and result in wealth accumulation. In the second one, the money thus generated is laundered and legitimized. It is invested in legal, above-board activities. The economy of the USA during the 19th century and in the years of prohibition was partly criminal. It is reminiscent of the Russian economy in the 1990s, permeated by criminal conduct as it is. Russians often compare their stage of capitalist evolution to the American "Wild West". samvak.tripod.com/nm054.htmlso one understands why today PORK Kenyatta is yearning to get 2 trillion for infrastructure projects and in the process take Kenya to the next phase of Crony Capitalism. this is a term used to refer to the situation where business success is related to strategic influences with civil servants, politicians and those in authority. It could be used to refer to situations in early twentieth century US where business leaders had to buy off politicians in return for favors www.economicshelp.org/blog/4896/economics/types-of-capitalism/but the Pokots, Turkanas, Somalis, our KDF led by General Karangi still have us in bandit economy. Bandits whose inactive arms are allowed to evolve are known as “restless bandits.”....Bandits where the active and passive action have opposite effects on payoffs are called bi-directional bandits... www.nber.org/papers/w19043.pdf
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Post by OtishOtish on Nov 23, 2014 0:19:16 GMT 3
at this rate you need to create a post on 'how to contribute to Jukwaa'. otherwise who makes speeches for most heads of institutions? imagine quoting a Presidents' speech and acting as if it was his/her work(s) when we all know the materials in most cases are pieced together by aids and the main ownership the President has is reading the speech. if it were a Sunday or a Friday I would consider your counsel unfortunately this is no holy place or day. glad for the feedback though. much appreciated. like it. thanks
You are still at it? Do you have any evidence that Steve did not produce that on his own? (We can ask him.) And even if he did not, how does that justify you trying to pass off another person's product as your own? In your cut-and-paste, you even included, without a thought, the clear indication of the fact that he is submitting some of the material for publication in a journal, which implies ....
Ati "quoting"! You did not quote anything at all or indicate where you had done any "borrowing"! You stole stuff, and, with the addition of some random sentences, tried to make it look like your own. And you have done that repeatedly, and for quite some time, on Jukwaa, and with material that is protected by copyright law.
Ati "heads of institutions" this and that. Steve gets by on his own steam; his publications in scholarly journals and elsewhere, his speeches, etc. are known to many. That is why I was surprised to find material I had already seen appearing in Jukwaa as the alleged product of one "podp"!
Unless you go back and tinker with the Jukwaa archives, it is quite clear that you have been at it for a long time and with material that is protected by copyright law. How do you explain that one? And what is your excuse for continually assaulting us with mix-and-match, "deep" and "heavy" mumbo-jumbo?
Earlier today I checked with one of the organizers of the conference in question, and she claims that they have copyright protection on the material that you "borrowed". I have asked for details, but in the meantime what do you have to say about that? (Did it not occur to you that there might be copyright on conference proceedings?)
You stated earlier that you do not plan to change. Well, we can make you change, and this is how it will be done:
If you continue to steal and misuse the works of others, especially work protected by copyright law, I will inform the authors, journal publishers, etc. and encourage them to take stern action. They would then contact (i.e. threaten) Onyango Oloo, who would have to deal with you ...unless he is prepared for legal battles to protect your theft. (We hope he is not.) "Not worth the trouble/money", I hear you thinking? Wrong thinking. Some of my buddies get brownie points for free labour on "worthy public causes", and I'm sure a few of the IP ones would be more than happy to look into a case of intellectual theft; certainly one I have talked to thinks this business is bizarre enough to entertain him.
So, then, have at it! The mumbo-jumbo is your choice, but intellectual theft can be dealt with.
Oh, if I were you I wouldn't bother going back and tinkering with what you have in the Jukwaa archives. Already downloaded and saved; timestamps etc.
Over to you. As one might say. Steal a few more things and do the mumbo-jumbo. Here, I've had a couple of beers, so I can get you started on the mumbo-jumbo: This thread is full of analytical ambiguities, which, although tantalizing for the reader, reveal the inherent tensions between the logics of individual communalism, as reflected in traditional African democracy, on the one hand, and the effect of a historical superstructure that has been constructed to replace the Western hegemony that was hitherto formalized as colonialism. Therefore, the question that Jukwaa, RAO, and ODM must answer is this: is it possible to stand back from the here-and-now logic in the broad spectrum that starts with the seemingly small matter of the passing of an individual, Mr. Kajwang, to the rise of an emboldened China that sees---in terms of its traditional cultural myths---the inevitability that the phoenix will soar over the eagle and the dragon will swallow the bear? In other words, we are at point in human history in which the traditional logics that we have relied on cease to apply, and a certain transcendental and universal logic is called for. The question for humanity, then, is this: how can such a logic---fit for purpose in the new digital super-future---be constructed from the very edge of the abyss. And we do stand at the edge of an abyss! Therefore, it behoves all of us, as Kenyans and, above all, as humans, to reflect deeply on the disparate logics that we encounter daily---the logic of capitalism, the logic of communism, the logic of liberalism, of religion, or art, or culture ...---and to synthesize from all these a certain "universal logic" on which we can thrive as human beings. This is the 21st Challenge to which I call my fellow Jukwaaists!How's that for a first outing in Mumbo-Jumbo Land? Imagine what I could do with a whole case of beer! ( All of the above mumbo-jumbo "copyrighted" by OO as his own creation)
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Post by podp on Nov 23, 2014 1:05:27 GMT 3
at this rate you need to create a post on 'how to contribute to Jukwaa'. otherwise who makes speeches for most heads of institutions? imagine quoting a Presidents' speech and acting as if it was his/her work(s) when we all know the materials in most cases are pieced together by aids and the main ownership the President has is reading the speech. if it were a Sunday or a Friday I would consider your counsel unfortunately this is no holy place or day. glad for the feedback though. much appreciated. like it. thanks
You stole stuff, and, with the addition of some random sentences, tried to make it look like your own. And you have done that repeatedly, and for quite some time, on Jukwaa, and with material that is protected by copyright law.
If you continue to steal and misuse the works of others, especially work protected by copyright law, I will inform the authors, journal publishers, etc. and encourage them to take stern action. They would then contact (i.e. threaten) Onyango Oloo, who would have to deal with you ...unless he is prepared for legal battles to protect your theft. (We hope he is not.) "Not worth the trouble/money", I hear you thinking? Wrong thinking. Some of my buddies get brownie points for free labour on "worthy public causes", and I'm sure a few of the IP ones would be more than happy to look into a case of intellectual theft; certainly one I have talked to thinks this business is bizarre enough to entertain him.
at this rate you need to create a post on 'how to contribute to Jukwaa'. step 1 go to ugandanationalacademy.orgstep two scroll down then ugandanationalacademy.org/amasa.phpstep three get the offending material at ugandanationalacademy.org at the bottom left hand corner and after downloading the word doc try enforcing bottom line 'Copyright © 2014 Uganda National Academy Of Sciences (UNAS). All Rights Reserved' at this rate you need to create a post on 'how to contribute to Jukwaa'.
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Post by OtishOtish on Nov 23, 2014 1:15:15 GMT 3
at this rate you need to create a post on 'how to contribute to Jukwaa'. step 1 go to ugandanationalacademy.orgstep two scroll down then ugandanationalacademy.org/amasa.phpstep three get the offending material at ugandanationalacademy.org at the bottom left hand corner and after downloading the word doc try enforcing bottom line 'Copyright © 2014 Uganda National Academy Of Sciences (UNAS). All Rights Reserved' at this rate you need to create a post on 'how to contribute to Jukwaa'. You seem to be learning something ... small, small. But you need to pay more attention to "fair use" and theft of IP, and---although many Jukwaaists have never raised the matter---you should be mindful of your "history" here. (This particular instance is evident, and if you tinker with the records the time-stamps will show it.) How about we simplify this: (a) Stop stealing stuff and passing it off as your own. (b) Cease and desist with the mumbo-jumbo, especially when it is based on theft. Seems simple enough. Which part do you find problematic? Oh, you asked for " how to contribute to Jukwaa". See (a) and (b) above. I'll be happy to provide further details, if you require them and can specify exactly what. In terms of generalities, if I were to add anything, it would be my standard advice to mumbo-jumbo types: (c) Can the con
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 23, 2014 9:43:34 GMT 3
Double O Yo, In this latest installation in the running episodes of attrition between the sneaking sniper of Jukwaa aka b6k, and the IS-like throat-cutting tyranical Kalifa of Jukwaa, aka Pyongyang Oloo, I will not suffer neutrality, but allign myself with the sniper in trying to handle the proverbial Davidian sling, to see if we can slay the Leninist Goliath who, if the cyber victims of his guilotine were to be counted, would surely achieve the notoriety of DK's Pol Pot, oka Brother number One. (oka = once known as. DK = Democratic Kampuchea). apenji, an incurable optimist like a firm believer in the 2nd coming of Christ, or the healthy keeping of all options open, customary of the prudent gambler? -yawa!? The fact is ODM has some key counties where she is not in coalition even as CORD. You will thus have to come up with a list of PROGRESSIVE POLICY REFORMS which, at least, as test-tube experimental cases, Raila is pushing through as a dry-run toward later NATIONAL application. These policies can then be FACTUAL proofs, or at least evidential figments of –--in your own words-- OFFERING A MODICUM OF A REFORMIST ALTERNATIVE! But if a study of ODM fiefdoms returns a return of nothing but the customary KANU-esque tenderpreneural rape of Wanjiku, you, comrade Onyango Oloo, will show case why you should not be denounced a … .. that is the Leninist terminology for ''wishful thinking'' [infantile fantasist]. Raila has been so long in power, either as a regional baron or national mover –-reaching the summit of co-principal where you so well analyse his shortcomings, such that his POTENTIAL as a reformist can now be stacked and weighed against his PERFORMANCE. Mesays the scales do not tilt in favour of your argument –-- even if I adopt the minimalist caveat you rooted …. that ... of the current crop of dyed-in-wool neo-colonial tribalists in the Uhuruto Jubilee maladministration, no one comes close to the son of the 1st VP in …. POLITICS to me is too ruthless a business to go by the hope old dogs will learn new tricks. My clinical thinking without any romanticism to temper the chill, is that the son of Odinga is a gonna old dog. In power, he has been proven a zero. Outside power, truly a panel-beating hammer. –-so his best remaining historical contribution to Kenya, is to hold his ruling classmates under siege by consistently mobilising public opinion to intimidate them with popular uprisings! as they loot the national kitty in various ethnic combinations. NB: It is in deed only Raila who could pick up a forgotten, dust-gathering concept like SABASABA, and infuse it of enough potence to send the whole political class to dysentry wards. Even brave young pretenders the likes of Ababu Namwamba went missing in action! And with Tawfiq, many other CORDED luminaries suffered political nervous breakdowns, at the call of sevenseven. Smoking fellas out by tapping live national wires to create national sparks, that is Agwambo's genius, and that is where he should excel in his last days. And he PROVEDLY can! NB: Remind me later to tell the tale of how my brother, just like governor Cyprian Awiti of HomaBay, had to do ''a Solomon'' to attend both the Kidero harambee at Homabay High School, and the Raila-ODM plenary at Oyugis, all in the same day! I think this POTENTIAL you so wax forceful about is now, given Agwambo's record in office over two decades, a proven myth once he is in OFFICIAL PORTFOLIO. Aha? Someone like him? Why not one of a more decided breed? [I do not remember the exact phraseology attributed to Wole Soyinka, but, from the top of my spinning head it went like: ''Come! a breed less feeble, to possess Nigeria and ride her urgently to her explosive tumulus, centuries late in coming!'' No one does it on own volition, unless from the start they are decidedly declared transformers, or revolutionaries. The rest need a knife prodding the soft of their throats to facilitate any reform. Would, he Raila had showed his visionary mettle as a transformational figure in Nyanza, thereby pontificating –-Luo-- Nyanza as a shining-light the way Bill Clinton used the backwater Arkansas to argue and propel himself to POTUS. He stays enmeshed in his class complexes, stunted and unable to evolve further. Thus far is his ideological peak. Political activism which forces him to mobilise the mass is his genius. In power, he degenerates into an impotent fiddle, addicted to white collar criminals, colonised by drug dealers and the rest of the hangers-on you so eloquently enumerate ---just like his fellow retarded prince, Ouru, too, is a blanc. Of this kind of picture … (At Kajwang's body-view) here below is my take ... Had OO paid keener attention to the content inside his buddy, Miguna Miguna’s, "Peeling Back The Mask" book while he toured the country with the author he would have realised that whatever credentials RAO may hold, progressive isn't one of them. After all he saw first hand as he & Miguna Miguna were Magerered at a book launch in the coast at slingshot point. They experienced the intolerance from the Sanhedrin in Kisumu when they had to be rescued by the police at another book launch. None of these & other close calls were ever condemned by the "progressive" RAO. b6k:I have opted to respond only to the above segment of your comment. If you, b6k had paid keener attention to my interactions with my close friend Miguna Miguna, you would have realized that he and I had differing assessments on the place of Raila Odinga in Kenyan politics. First of all, I believed that the fall out between Miguna and his boss were as a result of non-antagonistic contradictions. I will not, at this point in time, delve into the full meaning of all that seemingly esoteric Marxist jargon. Secondly, I believed and still believe that despite his obvious ideological, political and human shortcomings, Kenyans could NOT, willy nilly, expel Raila Odinga from the reformist camp. At the launch of his second book, Kidneys for the King, where AGAIN, I played the role of MC, Miguna stated publicly-and it was widely covered by the press-that his friend Onyango Oloo was going to vote for Raila Odinga while he, Miguna, had just endorsed Uhuru Kenyatta. Miguna was of course, referring to myself. Unfortunately, the enraged Jubilee supporters, on hearing this, assumed that it was my name sake, the TNA Secretary General who had apparently switched camps at the 11th hour to vote for his ethnic kinsman, rather than the man who was signing his cheques!Onyango Oloo Nairobi
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Post by podp on Nov 23, 2014 21:04:10 GMT 3
Double O Yo, NB: It is in deed only Raila who could pick up a forgotten, dust-gathering concept like SABASABA, and infuse it of enough potence to send the whole political class to dysentry wards. Even brave young pretenders the likes of Ababu Namwamba went missing in action! And with Tawfiq, many other CORDED luminaries suffered political nervous breakdowns, at the call of sevenseven. .......... No one does it on own volition, unless from the start they are decidedly declared transformers, or revolutionaries. The rest need a knife prodding the soft of their throats to facilitate any reform.Would, he Raila had showed his visionary mettle as a transformational figure in Nyanza, thereby pontificating –-Luo-- Nyanza as a shining-light the way Bill Clinton used the backwater Arkansas to argue and propel himself to POTUS. ....... He stays enmeshed in his class complexes, stunted and unable to evolve further. Thus far is his ideological peak. Political activism which forces him to mobilise the mass is his genius. In power, he degenerates into an impotent fiddle, addicted to white collar criminals, colonised by drug dealers and the rest of the hangers-on you so eloquently enumerate ---just like his fellow retarded prince, Ouru, too, is a blanc........ At Njoroge Mungai's funeral, the political cream of the land flocked to the ceremony. They came in their grandeur from both sides of their fictitious political divide. The death of one of their own, is an opportunity to re-bond in public, present a joint front to the masses, and re-enforce their cult of leadership. They are determined to peddle the narrative that they control the destiny of Kenya, that in government or out, they rule. Yet is possible to think of them, in the nature of transient things, that they are the Lord Dalameres of today, at their peak, starting on the downhill journey to sunset. They are busy keeping up appearances. ......... [/quote] 1st red high light true. there are the emancipation times. every mother who, like Margaret Garner, plunges a knife into the bosom of her infant to save it from the hell of our Christian slavery, should be held and honored as a benefactress. Every fugitive from slavery who, like the noble William Thomas at Wilkes Barre, prefers to perish in a river made red by his own blood to submission to the hell hounds who were hunting and shooting him should be esteemed as a glorious martyr, worthy to be held in grateful memory by our people. - See more at: www.blackpast.org/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress#sthash.Fbyj4f3n.dpuf was watching Churchil Show that started with paying homage to dearly departed GOK and the audience did the 'baado mampambano; song. made me wonder if years later it will be the song or poor Vivian Faith aka second wife who will be remembered as GOK's side dish or as 'revolutionary Mao, just like all our other great communist leaders did make errors, some of them even revisionist, but the revolutionary aspect of his theory and practice was overwhelmingly the principal aspect. He was a true dialectical materialist because his revolutionary theory and practice continued to change and develop right up until the end of his life.' so will we be singers of 'baado mampambano' in churches and mosques while 'eating chicken' when in power and keeping side dishes? www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.ebbingtide/powell-mao.htm2nd red high light Marrying rational choice to neopatrimonialism produces communities whose members are only attracted by the possibility of material gain. There are no ethnic bonds, sentiments of place and past, no loyalty, no passion and no belonging: except perhaps as smokescreens to conceal crass material interests. RAO is yet to understand how to weld and use power as the dynamic duo aka Uhuruto do. his 'lame' attempt reported in todays papers show him as one incapable of offloading baggage but like a true patriarch wishes all grandchildren to crowd in his hut despite their obvious different traits. if he RAO relegates himself to the back burner and nurtures a worthy more willy, cunning and ruthless band of successors to deal with the Uhuruto sparks may fly, but if he insists on offering himself like his long gone father they may share a history. www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/ODM-picks-new-leaders/-/1064/2532180/-/njqxv4z/-/index.htmlNeopatrimonialism and neoliberalism have produced a similar type of populist discourse about Africa, which manifests itself in an elite anti- elitism which bestrides all ideologies. To the extent that African elites instrumentalise bad governance, they are unlikely to be seen doing anything to improve things; and there can be no redeeming feature in any of the behaviour of these elites. Any signs that they might be doing something in support of the common good is immediately dis- missed as a ploy to ingratiate the government to donors, or a first move towards something more sinister than meets the eye. this statement 'suggests there to be strong preconceptions and prejudices about African politics which are unlikely to be dispelled by a more accurate measurement of the phenomenon in question.' www.iffs.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2013_1_thandika_mkandawire.pdfhence your punch 'birds of a feather flocking together' however the propaganda machine of the Gema communities is scary and will try to go for the kill now that they are using the mainstream newspapers to draw a parallel between Pio Gama and GOK as consiglieri's of the Odinga's something that smells to the high heaven when interspaced with smart facts like 'The Odingas have blamed their serial electoral losses to election rigging, which has won sympathy among the Luo masses and rallied them behind the “Odinga Dynasty”. However, after 2013, critical voices in Luo Nyanza are beginning to doubt the rigging claim. Based on the estimated breakdown of the 14.2 million votes by ethnic community, critics posit that the Luo power elite has been artlessly punching way above its weight. At 11.9 per cent, the Luo are fourth behind the Gema cluster — Kikuyu, Embu and Meru — (32.7 per cent), Luhya (12.67 per cent) and Kalenjin (11.9 per cent) with the Kamba (10.9 per cent) slightly behind. ' www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Will-Railas-political-empire-stand-/-/440808/2532152/-/d4r1yg/-/index.htmlhow the opposition is not able to seize the Constitution elements and play their role baffles me. this fixation of eating 'chicken' convinces me that dead woods need burial ceremonies
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Post by Horth on Nov 24, 2014 11:24:43 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,Funny. I remember writing in 2010 about Raila’s failings as a political wheeler-dealer and am pleasantly surprised that my thoughts from yore still (at least to me) have relevance even up to date. I honestly believe that Kajwang was never an asset to RAO but more of a liability than anything else. In 2007, I was a more rabid supporter of RAO and probably a better rally dancer than our dear Phil. Unfortunately, due to various incredible and downright stupid things done by RAO’s circle of close friends….and RAO himself, I found myself drifting, nah speeding, away from RAO at an astonishing clip. I seem to recall a saying which goes “ Show me your friends. I will show you your future.” And before I get podp’d, those are not my words but I simply can’t remember who said them and am too lazy to Google. RAO would be highly advised to heed those words otherwise his chances of even becoming the governor of Nairobi will dwindle down to negative territory.... RAILA LOSES 40% SUPPORT - IPSOS POLL
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Post by OtishOtish on Nov 24, 2014 16:28:16 GMT 3
I seem to recall a saying which goes “ Show me your friends. I will show you your future.” And before I get podp’d, those are not my words but I You won't get podp'd for the following reasons: (a) It is a single sentence, put in quotation marks. (b) Although you have used that piece, you are clearly communicating your own original thoughts and not just trying to bamboozle people with big-word mix-and-match mumbo jumbo. (c) You have not stolen anyone's stuff and then, unrepentant and incorrigible, cheerfully maintained that you have a right to steal it because it is not in a journal, could have been written by yet a third person. etc. Here is an example of what should be podp'd: (The writer is responding to Jakaswanga's original thoughts.) The first paragraph, of dubious relevance, has again simply been lifted from Mkandawire's paper, but you wouldn't know it. Nothing to indicate the borrowing or what it is doing there. Just thrown in for the "neopatrimonialism". Still, the whole thing is an improvement from "borrowing whole pages", throwing in a couple of badly written sentences, and flogging it off as one's own. This time, in a rare feat, the writer has come up with a whole paragraph of his own. What I was trying to do was encourage the fellow to see that intellectual theft is a serious matter and also that he would serve himself better if he worked on having his own thoughts and communicating them clearly (rather than just creating, with stolen work, big-word mumbo-jumbo and piling it in). Here is a small example of what I mean: (podp's work in blue, the rest Mkwandawire) Standard Podp. What the %$&$&$! "Deep"? TICK! "Heavy"? TICK! Does it tell us anything about RAO? Podp has not served himself well--first in stealing and then in producing this whatever-it-is. He has been at this sort of thing for quite some time, so it will be difficult for him to change; but I'd like to encourage him
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