DCI : Enter Judas

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Black-loving Gtown is tranquil. As tranquil as Nairobi could ever dream of getting. The fresh unfettered misty air pangs you like a native of Chenobil. this is one place where you can feel the ease of life in the midst of birds singing. And at nite, the local swimming pool hosts a charged game of waterpolo, shouts and whistles filling the moon-lit horizon from my room.

The whistles, shouts and clamour instantly remind me of why am here - or more, of why some people have issues with me being here. You see, the way i view it is pretty simplistic.

I applied for the DCI like everyone else, got the scholarship and am here to learn. Moreover, am pressed to think that someone already concluded that we are not representative enuff. Concluded about my intentions or lack thereof to sambaza the knowledge i've acquired from here to benefit others besides myself. But nooooo, that doesn't seem to be a good enuff script for the self-acclaimed Real African Blogger.

Pause.

Ponder for a minute.

Laugh.

The laughter could be out of disrespect but it ain't. I mean, this is just too trivial to have caused this much vitroil. Lakini kwajili alianaza, lazima nijibu.

Let's keep it simple and stupid, shall we? Am not going to qualify what passes as a blog, who passes as an African, a blogger or an African blogger for that matter. You're who you think you are. Jijazie.

Did i gain from this conference? Yes, beyond my expectations. And since am not anywhere playing fiddle to someone's request to wait for the speeches to ".....savage or praise them with due consideration", i will run it personally the same way i envisaged and resort to blog each lesson learnt as way of EMPOWERING and DEVELOPING others skills. Maybe someone else can benefit from these "30 pieces of silver".

But it's got me thinking, so what exactly is the script that the Real African Blogger needs us to play? My questions pop this way, na natumai ntapata majibu za kiutu uzima.

If we all applied at the same time, same place, doesnt that account for a transparent and fair process?

If AB&H received the scholarship, angeikataa on the basis that the panel was predominantly white? Leo hii tukiwa na kiburi kwa walio na elimu/ujuzi kutushinda, tunaenda wapi on the pretext of colour tunaenda wapi?

What is racist if not the above?

If Kipketer is Danish what stops a ........ oh, wait. Let me rephrase. Doesn't a white person born in Africa qualify to be African? Egyptians are super-light in hue, are they Africans? Do you have to be a coal-coloured miro to own that term?

Kwa nini kubomoa badala ya kujijenga hata kama ni kupata mafunzo kwa waliotutangulia kwa elimu kama kublogu?

Kama waweza kufanya zaidi ya waliochukua mkono wa mbele, then do it! Mimi najitolea kujilipia all expenses na nimbebee bag ya 30 pieces of silver kwa kunialika!I came out of Gtown a betta blogger and a BETTA EQUIPPED AFRICAN regardless of who convened the conference. Which part of this sentence doesn't make sense?

As was my intention, I'll redistribute the lessons tenfold. Shouldn't we be concentrating on teaching each other new skills and not kupepeta moto za upuzi? Hii ndio sababu kubwa namheshimu Ndesanjo kwa kuwa anapatiana changa moto na mafunzo muhimu tunazohitaji wakati wa sasa kama Waafrika - weusi au weupe.If am invited or get a scholarship to Gtown again or anywhere else for the intention of advancing my skills, whether its China, Molo, Moshi or Timbuktu, i'll take it. And that's free. What if they add 30 pieces of silver juu yake?

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