Observing Moi Day is Deeply Abusive to Kenyans
When
you finally come to the realization that Kenya is not only resurrecting Moism /
Nyayoism but actually elevating it to the level of celebration. When you think
of who Moi (as President was) and how his absolute dictatorial regime killed,
maimed and disappeared Kenyans in their numbers. When you remember how Moi
killed a whole generation by ruining dreams of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans
especially those born in the 80s through early 90s. When you remember how Moi
plundered, looted and pillaged public resources. When you remember how Moi
(through his Nyayo philosophy) continued with Emperor Kenyatta I's legacies of de-landing
of thousands of Kenyans creating a precarious ethno-land problem that
existentially threaten Kenya as we know it. When you remember Moi’s small and
vicious wars of ‘othering’ including ethnic cleansing in the Rift Valley (Molo
etc); genocides in North Eastern and Coast (God all those massacres). When you
recall Moi’s banditry through which he entrenched the deadly cult of cattle
rustling especially in the North Rift. When you think about how Moi engineered
a total collapse of Kenya’s economy. When you remember. When you remember. When
you remember. All. And then come into the realization that Kenyans are now
actually meant to honor and celebrate this man by observing a national holiday
dedicated to him. When you remember that Kenyans rejected this day during the
constitutional making process. When you think that millions of Kenyans are not
aware of these painful histories and that some may actually ignorantly, and unfortunately genuinely so, meant to believe that Moi is a character worth celebrating. What then do you do? Yaani utado?! Memory is a ghost. Your deal
with your ghosts.
Observing Moi Day is Deeply Abusive to Kenyans
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
on
October 10, 2019
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