YES! CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION!Sometimes people don't know what they wish for. I do.
Wish to ask the
right questions in the proposed popular referendum!
I heard it loud and clear.
Nipende nisipende, the constitution will be changed. The god
Raila wants it, the deity
Ouru wants it, the sucker
Peter Munya wants it. No one mortal can stop Reggae. It is the music and dance of the gods! No one can stop the looting at the heart of the Kenyan state. Impunity will, like Allah's will to Muslims, continue to reign supreme. Yeah, the political deities shove the middle finger up Wanjiku's.
This abuse and misuse is all the
Raha and Ustawi coming our way --O poor lot!---- in the near future!
I offer a grin to myself. Just too good to be true. Elites can suffer delusions of almightiness. Rotten elites like these even more so.
I thus wanted to write about the motherland Kenya, especially now, that the usual suspects have descended on a clamour to
CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION. Yes, once upon a time when
Arap Moi was set to inherit
Jomo Kenyatta's top seat, a similar clamour came up. Today, it is
Rais Ouru and
Raila Odinga who are at the head of the change the constitution group. The twin Handshake princes are ganged up against
William the Lowly Hustler VP; and their BBI coterie of looter sycophants are in tow. What a coincidence! what a farce .... in the sense of histories that attempt to repeat themselves too transparently ...
But I found these melodramas of the Kenyan ruling class shallow. They are merely the shenanigans of an elite in decay, their rot picking pace all over the place and showing.
The stories of
Mutahi Kagwe sending Emails and SMS's to the
KEMSA directorate, to cancel this or that
COVID PPE tender to award it instead to this or that
Ouru or Raila courtier, is the same old story of post-colonial Africa:
state capture by a kleptocracy or mobutocracy. Mutahi Kagwe is just another handmaid or usetool, a prototype cog just like the former Finance Minister,
Henry Rotich. Neither is the situation much different in some far-away countries that pretend to be better. There, we hear of the
1%-ter oligarchy. This is when a banking and politically connected 1% own 99%; and the 99% rest own only 1% of the economy. That kind of social geography, added to escalating debt, reminded me of the
inherent instability of a classic slave economy. ( a tinderbox waiting for that spark).
When it comes to slave economies, the black history of the Isle of
Hispaniola (San Domingo now Haiti) tops them all. For it is here where one of the most ferocious acts to re-assert the dignity of man denied, unfolded without any romantic retreats.
No quarter was given, in the literal sense. So you may not have heard tell of it in the best schools and carriculum.
Howbeit before I set my mind to the god-fearing Kenyan elections of 2022 which to all practical purposes are primed to be a facade, I had to visit the temple of
Makandal, there to ponder the options of the deep state. Unlike the market and its invisible hands of
Adam Smith, the Deep State has very visible hands. When
Team Kenya senators amassed enough influence to constitutionally derail the robbery of the periphery by the centre, the deep state promptly arrested them on trumped up charges.
But anyway,
Makandal is not really a name many a Kenyan, even educated ones, would care to have heard about.
MAKANDAL.
The reasons are myriad. Good Christians must have no time for Makandal. He must be
Damnatio Memorae'd, like the name
Spartacus for a Millennia to Rome. (Kenya is a good Christian country. The first line in the national anthem references God. And it aint Allah I can assure you!)
But majorly it is this. Makandal was the
spiritual Guru of the Haitian revolution, much as
Ho Chi Minh was the spiritual Guru of the Vietnamese revolution. The One-Handed Makandal, a hobby-to-professional botanist, synthesised and nurtured a radical spiritual movement which would later be bad-pressed as
VOODOO.
Today, voodoo is more likely to conjure up
macabre fantasies of super virile, high-energy sexual debauchery punctuated by sinister all-black bloody rituals. An ancient cult of Satan. The comical
James Bond, this time as Roger Moore in
LIVE AND LET DIE, in a silly fantasy pandering to the residual anxieties of a globally receding Britain, did much to market the human sacrifice angle of the voodoo narrative, especially its alleged priced lust for the blood and body of an innocent, virgin blond female. (Sociologically speaking, the roaring 60's came with such a surge of white female lust for BBC, such that empire saw a need to warn the on-heat citizens:
don't even flirt with it, you will be eaten to death in the aftermath. But that is a story for another day!)
And on the higher scale, students of politics will remember the senior Bush's putdown of
Reagonomics.
During the Nixon and Ford Administrations, before Reagan's election, a combined supply and demand side policy was considered unconventional by the moderate wing of the Republican Party. While running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980, George H. W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics".
The word
voodoo provokes deep-seated anxieties, and, I am afraid, with reason.
Haiti (then alternatively Hispaniola or Santa Domingo) was the
most profitable colony of its time. This was the magic treasure Island, a place where fortunes were multiplied quick time. And it necessarily had the
most cruel slave regimes of all. It
uncannily parallels Africa and the middle east today. (Super profits: Africa for its bounteous natural resources, the middle east for its limitless energy reserves;
the peoples of those areas under the most barbaric of regimes current on earth, utterly downtrodden).TINDERBOX
The thing about the voodoo of Macandal was
its total dedication to the eradication of slavery. This meant any religion, prophet or ideology which in any way supported, alibised for, was but an apologetic for the slavery of black people in the Caribbean (or their exploitation anywhere else in the universe), became persona non-grata for the enslaved blacks who wanted liberation.
Voodoo was pure liberation theology for Makandal. The slave plotting rebellion and escape from slavery, could not share the spiritual construct of the slavemaster. Total spiritual autonomy, total spiritual irreconcilableness was the deal.
I am not aware of any religion in history which has ever completely and wholeheartedly taken the side of the slave against the master. This Makandalian tenet is the heart of the matter;
this is the true insight to understanding the terror voodoo wreaks among establishment intellectuals of any era since. The Voodoo of Makandal takes no prisoners in a slave revolt. Dignity is not negotiable.
Makandal maintained:
'No True God could desire the cruelty perpetrated on us (black slaves), in these slave farms. The Christian God under whom the Portuguese and the Spanish sail their slave ships and keep us in chains is thus a False God.' So too could the Christian God under whom the English and French traded and brutalised African Blacks in the slave plantations of the Americas, be no true God.
This wholesome, Makandalian rejection of the Christian God and its Theology which defined Makandal (and his ilk) a labour tool of no soul, a theology which was propagandised by the Europeans as Civilisation, goes to the heart of the matter: the matter of the ostracisation of Voodooism, and the subsequent ruling-class campaign to conflagrate it with SATANISM; Occultic recidivism and other parahuman entreaties.
It is important to set ones thinking right.
Two of Europe's most radical thinkers on the issue of labour and capital in politics, would later review all religion thus:
Marx: Religion is pure superstition and ....
2 (Lenin)
Religion is the opium of the people.Now, the potency of an OPIUM which intoxicates SLAVES with the desire to act, the drive to seize their future, to break their chains, to end their bondage, to KILL all their masters and change the order, REVOLUTION, can not be understated. Too, the total dedication of slaves to end their slavery and regain their freedom, in a total war of annihilation if necessary, Armageddon, is a superstition easily a revolutionary zeal.
Makandal was thus possessed of this revolutionary zeal.
And this remains the potency of Voodoo. The potency which necessarily need must have it outlawed, or at least institutionally disenfranchised.
Within Voodoo is a strand which acts as the blast furnace keeping up a fearsome fire, the fire that burns in the heart of every slave: the dream of liberation. And then, Black Liberation. It has thus been banished to the outskirts of our civilisation which is based on exploitation. But it continues outside, in the underworld. (yeah, talking of Black Liberation USA style, you will never see any BLM activist give a voodoo salute!)
Now you know why! House Negroes will be house N-word!
And talking of the outskirts, so too did it occur to me, that the true essence of Kenya's independence and her second liberation continue outside the political bureaucracy currently looting the state and the people.
The next president is obviously set to be recruited from this narrow criminal crop of Cartelists. At the frontline is
William Ruto and Raila Odinga. Both are political pus seeking to recycle themselves in various rituals of purification. They are old dogs too set in their old ways to chart any new course further for the nation. They are the kind of politicians we best call morgue-men. They attend Africa as a carcass, they do nothing to revamp her, to rise her up. They are scavengers. The past rather than the future. They are the Dead, Living.
The next election will in probability be a rigged affair like the last. Everything in this order is thus a facade.
Wafula Chebukati and his body are a facade; the BBI is a facade; ODM and Jubilee are a facade; The Big 5 agenda, the constitution, the separation of powers, Governor Sonko and General 'Saddam' Badi --they are all facades! the DCI and DPP ...
. the Churchliness or godliness of Willam Ruto, the second liberationism of Raila Odinga, Uhuru Kenyatta's Handshake and anti corruption harangues ... all facades!And we know it!
Like so, in a nation of
mpango wa kando's both ways, we know how fake our marital vows are at the altar on the wedding day with one and the only one love! So it is with all oaths in Kenya, even the
high one for the presidency and fidelity to the constitution, is a most fake ritual. ---And so Big Brains
Mwai Kibaki had the presence of mind, even as he was totally drunk, to, the Bible aloft in his hands, mock it:
'DULY ELECTED Huh!? You Ameru piece of sh!t hypocrite!' Kibaki chided the furtively officiating
CJ Evans Gicheru famously after the
Kivuitu fiasco of 2007 which ushered in the infamous PEV.
Few Kenyans even of tremendous intellect can match Kibaki's practical presence of mind even if the Othaya charlatan be dead drunk, or now, Alzheimer senile for all I know!
Okay, I wont match Kibaki's wit but I will give it a shot any day am sober!
Kenya has continued to be a house of cards. And State House the epicentre of Graft. Methinks so long as we can still stick to our roles paid for by ever increasing debt or China's largesse, we can keep up our sky-high appearances. But deep down we know we are on the edges of a precipice. That is why everybody at the top is yelling UNITY, SISI ZOTE PAMOJA KENYA!
WE feel the heat even if we don't know the source.
Well, you never know what disciples of Makandal are stoking fires below. Some are teaching all thieves must go, underground! Big and small, they all must dance in the air before they become still and bow out.
There is an appetite in the land for Zero-tolerance to corruption. The appetite could mutate to kind of lust associated with mobs. You never know really when it is exactly, that the last drop this is which turned a peaceful, god and law-abiding docile population like we are, into a fest of piranha-like hyper activity. But it sure happens in life, in real time.
Petty thieves, even for a chicken or single egg caught, are already being burnt in the land.
Obado and family are very lucky I tell ya. Obviously the KEMSA thieves know very well what Kenyans want and would do to them, given a chance. A chance like at a referendum question: what do we do with these goons who loot the state and impoverish Wanjiku?
1. Burn, 2. behead or 3. hang?As for forgive (the thieves) and forget (their crimes), I don't think that is no more an option for the Kenyan public. Even the Christian ones who pack the Church weekly and meekly, are the ones who are more likely to be the best burners --0like they did witches and heretics!)
Let the change the constitution referendum come. We know the question: Thieves: burn, behead or hang?
What answer lies in your heart --O fellow Kenyan!
