Edward's picture

December 23rd, 2013

Continued from here - the earliest post on the late Edward Wanzala

Here is the picture of my friend

 

 

 

And click here for a view of the family he left behind the day after we received notification that his remains would be released:

 

 



Zina K's take on the role of Prophet Muhammed when Prophet Mohamed's

The Banu Qurayza
by Zina K

18th September, 2012

The Messenger of Allah had to leave  Ibn Umm Maktum, in charge of Al-Madinah, and he had given the flag to `Ali bin Abi Talib... the Messenger of Allah went to them (Banu Qurayzah) laying seige to them for twenty-five days...they had breached their covenant and wished to destroy Islam...


When this seige had gone on for too long, they agreed to accept the judgement of their own ally and friend , Sa`d bin Mu`adh, the leader of `Aws because they had been their allies during the Jahiliyyah, so they thought that he would treat them kindly as `Abdullah bin Ubayy bin Salul had done for his allies of Banu Qaynuqa` when he had asked the Messenger of Allah to set them free...and so if Sa'd had done the same the Prophet would have honoured the decision...


So, these people thought that Sa`d would do the same for them as Ibn Ubayy had done for those people...

When this happened, the Messenger of Allah called him to come from Al-Madinah to pass judgement on them.

When he arrived, riding on a donkey that had been specially equipped for him to ride, some of the `Aws began to urge him not to be too harsh, saying,

"O Sa`d, they are your clients so be kind to them, trying to soften his heart.''

But he kept quiet and did not answer them. When they persisted in their request, he said,

"Now it is time for Sa`d to make sure that no rebuke or censure will divert him from the path of Allah.''

The Messenger of Allah said: (These people) -- and he pointed to them (Banu Qurayzah) -- (have agreed to accept your judgement, so pass judgement on them as you wish.)

Sa`d,  "My judgement will be carried out''

The Messenger of Allah said: "Yes.'' He said,

"And it will be carried out on those who are in this tent'' He said, "Yes.'' He said, "And on those who are on this side'' -- and he pointed towards the side where the Messenger of Allah was, but he did not look directly at the Messenger of Allah out of respect for him.

The Messenger of Allah said to him: "Yes.''said:

"My judgement is that their fighters should be killed and their children and wealth should be seized.''

Had the Banu Qurayzah chosen the Prophet (saw) to pass a Judgment...maybe he would have given a different ruling altogether...

There were between seven hundred and eight hundred of them.

The children who had not yet reached adolescence and the women were taken prisoner, and their wealth was seized.

All of this is stated both briefly and in detail, with evidence and Hadiths, in the book of Sirah ...

Banu Qurayzah, who were Jews from one of the tribes of Israel. Their forefathers had settled in the Hijaz long ago, seeking to follow the Unlettered Prophet of whom they read in the Tawrah and Injil.

"..then when there came to them that which they had recognized, they disbelieved in it) (2:89). May the curse of Allah be upon them. ...

"..and cast terror into their hearts" means fear, because they had supported the idolators in their war against the Messenger of Allah and the one who knows is not like the one who does not know.

They had terrified the Muslims and intended to kill them so as to gain earthly power, but their plans backfired; the idolators ran away and the believers were victorious while the disbelievers were losers; where they had aimed for glory, they were humiliated.

They wanted to eradicate the Muslims but they were themselves eradicated. In addition to all this, they are doomed in the Hereafter, so by all accounts they are counted as losers..

Allah says: "..a group you killed, and a group you made captives.....And He caused you to inherit their lands, and their houses, and their riches....He gave these things to you ....and a land which you had not trodden.."

So several things are to be noted, firstly it was not prophet Muhammad who had ordered this execution, rather it was Sa'd who was an ally to the Banu Qurayza, and it was the Jews who had called on Sa'd to pass judgement on them as they had trusted him more than the Prophet of God...

And the muslims then accepted the Judgment that was passed by Sa'd against the Jews....

Had Sa'd passed a Judgment that all of them be set free....the prophet would have accepted that also...and so blaming the prophet is simply a waste of time and the fitna of the enemies...!

Secondly  they kept the children ALIVE, and the women as well, the ones who were killed additionally were only the ones who had gone through puberty and were going through puberty, hence no children were killed...

What you see below is young boys who had not gone through puberty being killed, including little babies...and you find the dictate, in the Bible:

Isaiah 13:15-18
Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children.

John Gill commentary:
Every one that is found shall be thrust through…

With a sword, spear, or lance, and be slain; that is, everyone that is found in the city of Babylon; and so the Targum adds,

``and everyone that is found in it shall be slain;''

so Kimchi, in the midst of it, or without; in the street, as Jarchi. The orders of Cyrus F8 <http://www.studylight.org/com/geb/view.cgi?book=isa&chapter=013&verse=015> were, that those that were found without (in the streets) should be slain; and to proclaim in the Syriac language, that those that were within doors should continue there, but, if they were found without, they should be put to death; which orders were executed, and well agrees with this prophecy:

"..and everyone that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword "
or "added" unto them; any of other nations that joined them as auxiliaries, see (Revelation 18:4 <http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=re+18:4>) or "that is gathered"; so the Septuagint, "they that are gathered"; that are gathered together in a body to resist the enemy, and defend themselves. Some render the word, "every one that is consumed", with age; neither old nor young, as follows, should be spared.

The Targum is,
``everyone that enters into the fortified cities,'' ..flees there for safety and protection.

"..Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes…"

Upon the ground, or against the wall, as was foretold should be, (Psalms 137:8,9 <http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=ps+137:8,9>) and in way of retaliation for what they did to the Jews, (2 Chronicles 36:17 <http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=2ch+36:17>) and this was to be done "before their eyes", in the sight of the inhabitants, which must make it the more distressing and afflicting; and, as Kimchi observes, this phrase is to be applied to the following clauses:
 "..their houses shall be spoiled.."
plundered of the substance, wealth, and riches in them, by the soldiers:
"..and their wives ravished;.."
"..by the same, and both before their eyes, and after that slain, in like manner as they had."

ravished the women in Zion, (Lamentations 5:11 <http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=la+5:11>) ..

[Their] bows also shall dash their young men to pieces,
&c.] That is, the bows of the Medes should dash in pieces the young men of the Babylonians. The meaning is, either that they should put them into their bows, instead of arrows, and shoot them upon the ground, or against a wall, and so dash them to pieces; or that they should first shoot them through with their arrows, and then dash them with their bows; according to Xenophon F12 <http://www.studylight.org/com/geb/view.cgi?book=isa&chapter=013&verse=018>, Cyrus came to Babylon with great numbers of archers and slingers:

and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;  even of those that were in the womb, but should rip up women with child, and cut them in pieces: their eyes shall not spare children;
in the arms of their parents, or running to them, shrieking and crying, and in the utmost fright; and yet their tender and innocent age would meet with no mercy. The Medes were notorious for their cruelty F13 <http://www.studylight.org/com/geb/view.cgi?book=isa&chapter=013&verse=018>, and which issued at last in the ruin of their empire.

I would like to see  you reply to this verse and this Christian commentary which is a very popular and known commentary. Note the verses not only order the killing of women and children, but the raping of women as well! I shall wait in anticipation for you to respond to this verse, and I shall wait in great anticipation for you to bring me something like this from the Quran, or the Hadiths, something the Junkies know they won’t be able to do...

The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi makes an Exemplary Gesture

Aga Khan  University Hospital Releases the Mahiti of the late Edward Wanzala
Widow, Conceptar, relieved; plans being made to take mahiti back home on Thursday next

continued from previous posting

Previous page on this subject (The late Edward Wanzala)

I am delighted to report that I accompanied Michael Wambwere, cousin of Edward Wanzala, the swimming instructor who died suddenly five days ago, to the hospital where we were advised to meet one Francis in the finance department.  Francis, under the instructions of Mr Alois, facilitated the whole procedure of enabling the deceased's remains to be released.  The bill has been waived and, in an amicable gesture, the family offered to pay a token amount to the hospital to express its goodwill and commitment to attempt to clear the final bill. 
Photo of Edward   Photo of Edward's family

Mr Alois was emphatic in his expression of the hospital's recognition of the conditions and limitations by which Mama Meshack was operating and he concurred that the priority was to find a way to release the remains of the deceased.


Earlier he had clearly stated that the hospital did not detain the remains of the deceased but, he had added turning to me, (the hospital) does have to fulfil the expectations of due diligence.  Accordingly, they would release the remains and expected that the fund-raiser would enable the family to contribute to the bill which would be reviewed to reflect a figure that would be reduced.  They would not demand the total sum shown.


The family, in turn, has paid an unspecified sum from the fund-raiser against the amount expected on the final bill and undertaken to clear the mortuary charges.


The formalities were completed this evening and the family is ready to take the body home.  People are exultant about the outcome of the matter and are moving on to make plans for the funeral.


Thank you, Aga Khan University Hospital!


Text of an email from the family:

Michael Wambwere

22:52 (1 hour ago)

to Alexander, Francis, me, m
Dear Jiwa and Mahebub,
words can not express how grateful we are to God for all the support we have received on this matter. I wish you were there to witnesses how Mama Raveena was singing and praising God joyfully along the corridors of the hospital after she was handed the burial permit by the ICU personnel. I was beside her and was greatly moved to the point of shading tears. Ooh...How amazing! may God bless you richly! May he continue to bless the work of your hands. Edward story has made me believe that there are many who, like Mama Raveena, could be suffering in silence and with no one to fight for them! You have given us courage and confidence to fight on undeterred till we ensure that Mrs Edward and the children are stable and able to move on despite the absence of their soul bread winner. Ahsante sana!!!!!    

My response to that is  AMEEN.



Photo of Edward   Photo of Edward's family

G Mohamed Jiwa
www.habaripoacoolnews.blogspot.com
December 21st, 2013

Update on the question of being allowed to remove the remains of Edward Wanzala

Update

On the question of being allowed to remove the remains of Edward Wanzala

by Mohamed Jiwa at 7:30pm 20th December, 2013

I went with Mike Wambwere to the complaints department at the hospital and the kind person there referred me to the Credit Control department where we met Mr Alois.  Mr Alois has assured me that the hospital does not have a policy of detaining the remains of those who have passed away.  He has asked us to give him the results of the harambee (fund-raiser) and seems agreeable to a payment plan.  He is not going to demand the whole amount as stipulated on the bill.  He would, however, like to be presented with a payment plan and the results of our harambee for the expenses incurred towards laying Edward to rest.

Waiting to start the fund-raising at 5.45pm I saw a picture, shown to me by Mama Raveena, of Edward.  It is an exquisite photograph of a man totally dedicated to his purpose in life.  I intend to take a picture of the lovely family (tomorrow) and then publish the photographs.

(I could not stay for the fund-raiser to begin owing to prior commitments.)


Photo of Edward   Photo of Edward's family

Anyone Advise How to Release the Late Edward Wanjala and his Family before Christmas

True Story in Nairobi of a Swimming Instructor
His body is being held in the hospital for Kenya Sh 1.1 million

by Mohamed Jiwa at 3:30pm 20th December, 2013

We seem to be held up by a hospital securely holding the mahiti (body awaiting last rites) of a husband and a father who died recently from a brain haemorrhage, against a bill of KES.1.1million (USD 13,000).  It's nearly Christmas and our lives have suddenly changed.  And we just want to take him home and bury him.


It is already 19th December, 2013 and there are 6 days to go (I drafted this yesterday so read one day before).  The hospital is holding his body until an arrangement has been agreed upon to pay the bill.  The family and I met with friends of Edward at his home at the Aga Khan Primary School where he worked as a swimming coach.  They are all his students.  He has taught countless children to swim, gently and cleverly, and he could teach an adult to swim in four days, with ease:  He was the best coach I have ever met, the kindest and most generous, a conscientious man, a GENTLEMAN.  Edward was a teacher in the true sense and there are too few of these.


Edward lived only to the age of 40.  People are dying on this planet at the rate of 107 per minute (nearly two [1.78 to be exact] per second).  If most of us are members of the 99% (the marginalised - who do not participate in national sabotage by corruption and partisanship  -and the poor) then most of these deaths are probably affected by untoward incidents of one sort or another, especially in the dustbins we call our cities which politicians, mostly egregiously inflated and programmed to fail, are unable to rise to the challenge in helping to clean our spaces and inject them with life support.

Could this sort of contempt of ethics be affecting our hospitals, too?  Perhaps there are many ordinary people who have died and whose families have been cut off from them to the extent that they are unable to find a closure by performing the rites and rituals that attend such eventualities.  This is true in the case of Edward's family.  The hospital seems coolly to have declined to release his mahiti until an arrangement has been made to clear the bill.  This put all of us in a panic.


Hospitals know that they make their profits from the obscenely rich who do not contribute to society where contributions are urgently needed, when they should also take on the role of acting as mediators between such obscenities and the needs of the poor who have equal right to access.  People don't want to get involved with situations like Edward's for reasons beyond the scope of this story.


This may just be another death in many but why should it be more special?  Together with Francis, Alex and Michael and others, I would like to stress that the hospital should, to act appropriately in all respects, release Edward's mahiti, sympathetically be guided by the Hippocratic Oath and mirror the family's anxious need to have the Mrehemu (the one mercifully granted rest) taken for burial before Christmas so that the family can confidently move into the grieving process, to get over their loss, move on and rebuild their lives in the memory of their beloved who must also move on.


Mrs Edward and her family receives the guests who come to condole in a small space behind the field at the school with grace and dignity, ensuring that she cushions all of us from the gravity of the moment with quiet strength and composure that is just amazing.


Tomorrow (ie today at 5pm) there will be a fund-raising drive that will hopefully be attended by the management, teachers and parents of the school, and friends, the people whom he taught to swim and feel at ease in the water.  The school is closed so I am hoping that the teachers and the students will address the questions we are facing supportively, when the school starts.   Will we collect the 1.1 million?  What do you think?


Here is an incomplete report on what may have happened to this great swimming coach, as received by oral testimony from his widow and others:


Edward was taken to the hospital (Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi) and moved directly to the ICU.  He may have, from a report I received today, possibly been assessed as clinically dead on arrival; for, that may have happened at the moment he had suffered a severe brain haemorrhage on December 12th.  Is this true and could the hospital confirm and help to fill in the blanks?


The object, I am told, was to raise his heart beat from 52 to about 75 before they could proceed with draining the brain.  It had started going up slowly, though not at the same rate as the charges were mounting and not high enough to safely perform a procedure.  He was already on a life support.  The school's insurance company had paid their obligation (KES.200,000/-, about USD.2,500.-).  There were now the questions of holding him on life-support and the monetary cost of offering further treatment.


When I called Mama Raveena (Mrs Edward)  on the 17th to find out how he was she told me that he had died the day before.


Naturally I was stunned.  But he was only 40 years of age.  I had started to make friends with him and I was looking forward to having Saida learn competitive swimming under his auspices and care.  He had taught Saida, her mother, sister Nelly to swim within the span of three or four lessons.  He knew exactly where to challenge them and where to limit them.  On sunny  or chilly days it was a pleasure to swim in that pool at Aga Khan Primary School. He was diligent and everyone in the pool was laughing and larking about, bumping into one another.  The atmosphere was much jollier than any pool in the vicinity and his approach was casual, friendly and confident.


But Edward was suffering. I wish I had known.  I wish he had known (didn't he know?) that he had very high blood pressure.  My mum:  "High blood pressure is a devilish trickster.  We should all check our pressure regularly."  Men are dying younger and younger from cardio-vascular related diseases because of extreme stress (being pushed into fighting against poverty and indigence by the ultra-rich who control our worlds).  I have personally experienced this sort of stress where one is constantly on the edge of being relieved of one's rightful possessions, spaces and memories by a process that is making us poor while the economy grows.  I am on medication, myself.

Edward was complaining of backaches.  I had invited him to my studio to learn a few yoga moves and he came two Sundays in a row. He said that he had found relief through yoga.  So when I heard that he had fallen ill I was in a spin.


But now he's gone.  The family stays at the Aga Khan Primary School workers' quarters.   Mama Raveena (who is my daughter's friend) will have to move out at some point though I expect the school will give her time to get herself organised, first.  Where will she go and how will she manage the four children?  She doesn't work.


Photo of Edward   Photo of Edward's family

I have to try to find a way to get access to the Aga Khan University Hospital administration for advice on several questions:

• Can they assign a qualified person to us, someone with humanity, to explain to us what actually happened and why they are demanding such a sum?
• Can we know who the doctor was?
• What is in the medical report?  What was the prognosis and the line of action that they proposed to take and why?
• Was the family informed of the patient's state of health and of the implications of continuing the treatment the way it was projected?
• What were his chances of survival?
• Cause of death?
• Why did he have high blood pressure?
• Was he never checked and warned about the risks of his high blood pressure?
• What could have prevented him from obtaining the correct information about his health if he was already on some sort of insurance?
• Was he on life support?  From what moment?
• Was he taken off the life support machine?
• Why do they hold the body?  Is it as a 'collateral' against the amount being owed when the person who owes them the money is dead?  
• Is this morally correct and what does the constitution have to say about it?
• Can we come to an arrangement about the release of the body so that he can be taken home before Christmas?
• Should the family not be supported by the hospital and the Aga Khan institutions and advice about how to go about preventing this blockage of a natural course of events that follow a death?
• What other advice can they give us?

What are the ethical guidelines that govern cases like this?

APPEAL

I am hoping that people who come across this article will contribute to the fund of having the body released, taken home to Western Province and buried as soon as possible.  Can you contribute something - anything?  If so, then the details of Mama Raveena's account are below.  If you are going to make Western Union or similar payment please note her name and ID number, or if it will be a bank transfer here are the details of the bank account, too:

MPESA TELEPHONE NUMBER IS 0700103662 in the name of Conceptar (Mrs Edward)

Bank and International Wire Transfer Details
Account Name:	Conceptar Nabwire Oucho
Account Number:	1108532003600
Bank:	Coop Bank, P  O  Box 38764-00600, Nairobi, Kenya
Branch:	Sitima Plaza Branch, Nairobi Kenya
Bank code:	11000
Branch code:	11035
Swift code:	KCOOKENA

Western Union and similar: Conceptar Nabwire Oucho Kenya ID number: 25650053


Keep the payments coming as Mrs Edward will have to pay the bills, move, set up home once again, possibly in the village, and yet ensure that the children keep going to good (boarding) schools.  Note that if she buys cows and produces milk for sale then she will probably have a gross income of about KES.7500 p month (all less expenses that can climb fast).  Each cow can support one person at the lowest level of life only.  She needs an income from about six cows to make it, and each cow will cost about 50,000.- (USD.600).


I guess (correct me where I am wrong) she will need to collect altogether:

Schedule of Estimated Cost of Rebuilding a Small Family in the Countryside
		KES	Exch Rate	USD
Bills		1,200,000	83	14,457.83
Burial		50,000	83	602.41
House move		100,000	83	1,204.82
Cows		300,000	83	3,614.46
Rebuilding		100,000	83	1,204.82
Fees six mths 4 kids*	25,000	100,000	83	1,204.82
		1,850,000	83	22,289.16

*@25,000 each


Is it possible to collect the funds by sending out information/ publicity via Twitter and the blog?  I don't know. I will report our progress back.  Please use the COMMENTS facility on this blog to advise, comment and send condolences, if you like, and spread this around.


I shall update this blog post regularly.  I am working on the questions of intention to repay the hospital (within the context/ need to question the bill and the reasons why a particular course of action was taken), transparency and accountability.


If you contribute something to any of the above payment points please send a note to me (as a self-appointed accountant) so that we can keep a track of the amounts that we have collected and report them back to you together with the budget as it becomes more accurate.  Meanwhile, I have requested the family (led by Michael Wambwere, Edward's cousin) to advise me on how to maintain transparency and accountability because it is not easy to do this through the bank account and the Mpesa account  until we have the approvals necessary.


Most importantly, if there is anyone who can advise us on how to negotiate with the hospital (if the hospital itself cannot take the role of counselor because it is an institution of healing and wholeness, ideally speaking) please contact me through my Twitter account @kirimba:  Healing and wholeness would naturally and obviously include the wholeness of the patient, the family, the community and the public, in a manner that mirrors the anxiety of the people affected at this time.

Photo of Edward   Photo of Edward's family

Edward Shikuku Wanzala (1973-2013), Swimming Instructor with the Aga Khan Primary School, Nairobi.  Survived by Conceptar and four children (Meshack, Fernando, Raveena and Praise) relatives, friends, and hundreds of students who loved and felt secure with him in the water.

G Mohamed Jiwa
@kirimba
19th/ 20th December 2013

(to be continued)
Drafted 10:46 AM 12/19/2013
Third edit 2:32 PM 12/20/2013
Fourth Edit 8:12pm 20th Dec 2013
Edit 9:50am 22nd December, 2013
Update 1 at 7:20pm 20th December 2013

Times of India article on Gujeratis bringing glory to East Africa and comments

Edited on 18th Nov 2013 10:42h

Caution:
I made up a new word, I think:  "residuality".  It denotes the quality and composition of the (human) residue of those left over after society has lived and produced.  (G  M  Jiwa November 17th, 2013);
I produced a new definition of 'rich':  conferred with generosity and humanity for your fellows in a manner committed to their uplift in socio-economic terms;

 

Times of India has regional sections.  In the 'City/Vadodara' section there is an article entitled,

Gujeratis brought glory to E Africa.

Turn to the Times and read it.

The only comment I found therein added to the article's information base with a great punch.  But it was thought-provoking, too.  I attempted to add my comment and tweet the thing but the mechanism failed.


Here is the comment by one Farouk Jamal who shares his ancestral lineage and antecedents with the reader, too, which is fascinating.


Farouk's comment:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/opinions/23106715.cms?ordertype=asc

Farouk S. Jamal (Vancouver, Canada) 1 day ago

The earliest Indian settlers in East Africa were Khojas, Dawoodi Bohoras and Bhatias from Kathiawar and Kutchh, in today's Gujarat State. They built financial Empires in the19th Century. In mid 19th Century, Sir Tharia Topan, a Khoja (the first Indian knighted by the British Crown in Africa) was the right hand man to the Sultan of Zanzibar, before the British Imperial East Africa Company had achieved a stronghold in that part of the world. I myself am the great grand son of Jamal Suleiman Virji, son of the Indian pioneer of 1872, Suleiman Virji, who hailed from the Junagadh region of Saurashtra, Gujarat, the son of one Shivjibhai Haji. Suleiman Virji with Alidina Visram, the latter known as the Uncrowned King of Uganda, along with A M Jivanjee that you mention in your article, were the wealthiest people in East Africa at the time, in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Today's Lord Verjee, my blood relation, in the British upper house of Parliament, is also a descendant of Suleiman Verji. Whilst we made (and often lost) fortunes in the those lands in trade and commerce, the Africans have very little idea and knowledge of the difficulties endured and sacrifices made by our forefathers in developing today's Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, putting East Africa on the map. The British sahebs ("Bwana" in Swahili) meanwhile had occupied the position of rulers and Administrators of those lands under whom we suffered discrimination and the apartheid system, particularly in Colonial Kenya. Farouk Jamal Vancouver, Canada

Here is how I respond to the above comment (remembering that both Farouk and I are Ismaili Khojas while he is a Canadian and I a Kenyan - with no dual citizenship):

"Accurate and something to feel proud about, indeed. 

Perhaps they brought glory, yes, but not to E Africa which (having been robbed of its unadulterated natural evolution) is, was and promises to remain for some time: poor (if you would be willing to define rich in terms of being conferred with generosity and humanity for your fellows in a manner committed to their uplift in socio-economic terms. 

Glory was to the empire and still is, for even Lords are bound to be imperialists. 

There were no strong loyalties, as such, to Africa from the late 19th century up till today with exceptions where a few thinking people and groups idealise the notion of Kenya, or Uganda, for example.  But these are countries that are scarred by their artificial geographical national boundaries.   In most cases, life and culture developed on the templates of survival in an exciting and wild environment where there was room for obtaining success mostly because one was protected under the British imperial umbrella.   

The loyalty, on the part of everyone, including the black Africans who claim lordship over the land against a historical backdrop and in an environment which have reduced agents of self-centred growth including Gujus, to corrupt people who are ruthlessly exploiting the situation, today, amounting to loyalty to their own glory and not E Africa's, to their own protection, raj and self-aggrandisement, in face of Western neo-colonialist, imperialist incursions through agencies like Africa Command.   

90% of human beings in Africa are poor and vulnerable and I doubt whether even 99% of the people who have connections to this piece of real estate care enough to search for lasting solutions.   

We as Indians, like all other colonised and once oppressed races, languish in the memory of lost glories and our nostalgia for unrequited imperial ambitions, making up for them with life-styles that compensate for such losses.  We celebrate our gujerati or Englishness by creating and adding to what we perceive as the most important values in life, wealth, power and affluence to dress our dignity.  Therefore, whilst we stumble through the age on chauvinistic crutches and the need for glory (a colonial hangover) the world turns and leaves the marks of our neglect on peoples who have no clue how to rise from the swamp of residuality."

Mohamed Jiwa
@kirimba
habaripoa
18th November, 2013