By David Maillu
Published March 14, 2024
Everybody in Kenya is terrified by economic chaos, social insecurities, corruption, unemployment, and loss of hope for
tomorrow – that are everywhere. and loss of hope for tomorrow – that are everywhere. The masses have lost faith and trust in the government. The government has been a monster and people have been looking in vain for someone to kill that monster. These are not exaggerations but facts on the ground. Simply speaking, we have arrived at this stage out of bad and primitive governance based on an imported political ideology. African governments have never been Africanized, woe unto them. They are bastard governments fathered by colonial masters.
Like it or dislike it, believe it or disbelieve it, nothing can cure
this sickness less than a Social Revolution. Kenya is ripe for that
Revolution. The word “Revolution” scares many people because it is often associated with violence. But history has got it that there can be and have been many Peaceful Social Revolutions. It is a Revolution that will not require billions of shillings or bills presented, discussed, and passed in Parliament. It will only require MASS EDUCATION to decolonize the heritage of the brainwash that the Whiteman planted in us. It is a Revolution that can be carried out amicably, and cheaply but extensively. This article is a contribution to Mass Education. To Africanize African governments would not need less than a Revolution.
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Not many people are aware that traditional Africa has a clear answer to the political problems we are facing. Those who don’t believe there is such a thing should tell us why, for example, African traditional governments DID NOT HAVE PRISONS. What kind of social science did Africans employ to live a life without prisons and a super social civilization than the one we inherited from the Whiteman? Prisons were brought to Africa by the Whiteman. The rains started beating us when
Africans did not Africanize the governments. Why has African social order civilization fallen so much back into primitiveness?
Traditional Africa did not have prostitution. Divorces were rare in traditional Africa. There were no destitute children in traditional Africa. The evils brought to Africa by Whiteman’s political structure are uncountable. A traditional leader was the most trusted person in the
community. Now our governments are made up of thugs, rapists, thieves, liars, and endless evil doers in the name of Honourable So-and-sos.
I took many years of combing African archives studying African Social order at a time the world preached Africa did not have a political ideology. I found a stunning political ideology that, at last, I published in a book titled “African Indigenous Political Ideology.” It was part of my doctorate in African Literature and Political Philosophy. I, therefore, have an academic philosophy that can heal African political problems. I remember one time way back when I hinted a bit of this revolutionary ideology to Kalonzo Musyoka in his office when he was Minister for Foreign Affairs during Moi’s regime. Frightened by what he heard, he silently ran to President Moi and shared the brief that raised red flags. I was seen as a dangerous person. Moi grabbed the little information that he had gotten from Kalonzo based on gender and staged something he thought would block my political trajectory. It is well remembered when President Moi called for Harambee Fund Raising for the Youth, I remember, raising over 20 million shillings, followed by another Harambee for Women. It was then that Moi created the Gender Ministry. There is one highlight during which I was invited to an international conference in the Netherlands to give a lecture on revolutionary ideology. On the last night of the material day I was going to present my paper at the conference a white organizer walked into my hotel room and delivered the message that I was not going to present my paper; furthermore, I wasn’t even allowed to be in the hall. On my return to Kenya I realized the Moi government sent an order
through the Embassy to stop me from addressing the world.
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This is the ideology I want to launch NOW at my old age. It is not because I want to be the President. I think I have a bigger name as a renowned author than a President in a colonial paddock. I am doing this out of desperation of not finding anybody or any political party or younger actors to stage it. Political Party outfits in Kenya and their leaders dread what I have like they would dread the plague.
It looks like, ideally, after I have written this political script there are no actors to stage the play. I have been a lonely voice in the wilderness of desperation. It looks, unfortunately, like I should act on the script like the late Francis Imbuga playwright would act on his scripts. I am dressed in a Pharaoh spiritual costume as Pharaoh Maillu, to stage the PEACEFUL SOCIAL REVOLUTION based on African traditional values. PHARAOH means “Great House.” I want to build Africa the Great House it deserves. Actors and patriotic people, where are you? Kenya swims or sinks. Africa swims or sinks.
