{"id":1022,"date":"2016-10-19T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:43:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:43:45","slug":"mashujaa-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/mashujaa-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashujaa Jamhuri Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Magari poa wishes all Kenya a Happy Mashujaa Day, Enjoy the following quotes by Kenyans and about Kenya:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cWe\u2019re small because when they took them (Africans) into slavery, they took the big ones.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Mwanasiti, a Kenyan woman, accounting for the small size and height of Kenyans<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cIn Kenya you\u2019ve got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It\u2019s a chance to remember what the world is really like.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>British actress Joanna Lumley<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201cM<strong>uzungu [white man] is great \u2013 so full of wonders. We are on a piece of metal and we\u2019re not sinking.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>A Kenyan woman onboard the South Mombasa ferry<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cLife is simple. You are born, you do your thing, and you die. It\u2019s easy. Anyone can do it.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Joan K., a young Kenyan business woman commenting on people who are confused about life<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cMy name is Maina, the opposite of major.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Maina, on how to pronounce his name<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cRioting is a Kenyan thing. If they didn\u2019t do it, they\u2019d be Tanzanian.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Dr. Mavura, from Tanzania<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cSugar, maize, soap, and cooking fat.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Beatrice, a Kenyan woman, on being asked about the most important needs in life<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cThe new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Famous runner Noureddine Morceli, 1988, when asked if he feared any other runners (Kenyans are among the world\u2019s best runners)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cWhen the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, we had the Bible in our hand, and they had the land.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Jomo Kenyatta, fist president of Kenya<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cWhen my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Famous British-Kenyan archaeologist Louis Leakey<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cI can\u2019t think of any other region in the world [Kenya] which is such a vast source of fossils.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Richard Leakey, son of Louis Leakey and an accomplished archaeologist himself<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cAfrica, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Danish author Karen Blixen, who lived in Kenya for a large part of her life<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cThere is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne \u2013 bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one\u2019s camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Karen Blixen<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cAll of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. \u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Prof. Wangari Maathai, a former Kenyan Government Minister and the first African woman to win a Nobel Prize<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cAfrican women in general need to know that it\u2019s OK for them to be the way they are \u2013 to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Wangari Maathai<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cKenyans must learn on how to believe in themselves and do away with this culture of dependency on donors for everything.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Mutahi Kagwe, Kenyan Minister for Information and Communications<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cI knew him (Mwai Kibaki) when we were young boys and he was brilliant. You could tell by the way he took care of his father\u2019s sheep.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Kenyan voter Daniel Gitu<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cLeadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>President Mwai Kibaki<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cCorruption will now cease to be a way of life in Kenya.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>President Kibaki, upon becoming President<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cThe vote has shown clearly that the majority are opposed to the proposed constitution. As we had said before, my government will respect the wishes of Kenyans.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>President Kibaki, upon losing the referendum on the new constitution in 2005<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cThe people of Kenya, the political leaders and the parties deserve to be congratulated on their demonstrated belief in, and commitment to, democratic values and ethics, in particular to free, fair, peaceful and transparent elections.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Commonwealth election observers on the 2002 elections (the opinions of international election observers on the 2007 elections were slightly different\u2026)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><b style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201c(<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Long-time<\/b><\/span><b style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> Kenyan strongman Daniel Arap) Moi had no concern whatsoever about the poverty of his people and I doubt very much that he has actually ever walked in this very place (Nairobi slum of Kibera).\u201d<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> \u2013 <\/span><\/span><i style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">David Mugonyi, Kenyan clerical officer<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cWe want the economy revived, but not at the expense of our sovereignty.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Kenyan political analyst, Mutahi Ngunyi commenting on the attention paid to donors and foreign investors by the government and President at the expense of Kenyan politics and people, Sunday Nation 23\/3\/03<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cKenya has become a country of ten millionaires and ten million beggars.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 <i>Kenyan politican J.M. Kariuki, assassinated in 1975<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>It Africans were left in peace on their own lands, Europeans would have to offer them the benefits of white civilization in real earnest before they could obtain the African labour which they want so much. They would have to offer the African a way of life which was really superior to the one his fathers lived before, and a share in the prosperity given them by their command of science. They would have to let the African choose what parts of European culture could be beneficially transplanted, and how they could be adapted \u2026 The African is conditioned, by cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom for ever.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from the conclusion to his book <i>Facing Mount Kenya<\/i>, 1938.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>Europeans assume that, given the right knowledge and ideas, personal relations can be left largely to take care of themselves, and this is perhaps the most fundamental difference in outlook between Africans and Europeans.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from his book <i>Facing Mount Kenya<\/i>, 1938.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from an Independence Day message to the people, as quoted in Sanford Ungar\u2019s <i>Africa, the People and Politics of an Emerging Continent<\/i>, New York, 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from the dedication in his book <i>Facing Mount Kenya<\/i>, 1938.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>Don\u2019t be fooled into looking to Communism for food.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, as quoted in David Lamb\u2019s <i>The Africans<\/i>, New York, 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from an address given on Kenyatta Day, as quoted in Anita King\u2019s <i>Quotations in Black<\/i>, Greenwood Press 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we shall have gone a long way to solving our economic problems.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, as quoted in David Lamb\u2019s <i>The Africans<\/i>, New York, 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>Many people may think that, now there is <\/i>Uhuru<i>, now I can see the sun of Freedom shinning, richness will pour down like manna from Heaven. I tell you there will be nothing from Heaven. We must all work hard, with our hands, to save ourselves from poverty, ignorance, and disease.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, from an Independence Day message to the people, as quoted in Sanford Ungar\u2019s <i>Africa, the People and Politics of an Emerging Continent<\/i>, New York, 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>If we respect ourselves and our <\/i>uhuru<i>, foreign investment will pour in and we will prosper.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, as quoted in Phyllis Martin and Patrick O\u2019Meara\u2019s <i>Africa<\/i>, Indiana University Press 1986.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>We do not want to oust the Europeans from this country. But what we demand is to be treated like the white races. If we are to live here in peace and happiness, racial discrimination must be abolished.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, as quoted in David Lamb\u2019s <i>The Africans<\/i>, New York, 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201c<b><i>God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people\u2026 we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.<\/i><\/b>\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan president, from a speech given in Nyeri, Kenya, 26 July 1952.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> \u2013<em>Mwai Kibaki <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country\u2019s unity.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> \u2013<em>Mwai Kibaki <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> \u2013<em>Mwai Kibaki <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> \u2013<em>Mwai Kibaki <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>African women in general need to know that it\u2019s OK for them to be the way they are \u2013 to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> \u2013<em>Mwai Kibaki<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>First, let me quote my 10th great grandfather Ragem, \u201cThere are movers and there are shakers. I was a mover, but you Joram is a shaker. Raila is both.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Kenya is up and running once again. Kenya is ready to do business.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Tsvangirai\u2019s decision to campaign in the runoff would show-how far Mugabe and his cronies are willing to go<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia \u2013 I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe deserve a free and fair election.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he is not willing to hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his own political party .<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe .<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Central to our Vision 2030 is that our country will be firmly interconnected through a network of roads, railways, ports, airports, water and sanitation facilities and ICT<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>President Kibaki and I are aware that we cannot do everything overnight<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>The Vision 2030 is aimed at transforming Kenya from a struggling third-world economy into a second world economy \u2013 We do believe that it is a realizable objective; we don\u2019t believe that it is utopia. We know that it has been done in some.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>We all saw what happened. Let\u2019s forgive each other so that we can move ahead and let\u2019s be our brother\u2019s keeper.<\/strong><em><br \/>\n-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>If we have shown unity here, we can demand unity down the line<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>At independence Kenya\u2019s economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea\u2019s economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent .<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Raila Odinga<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>I am working to make sure we don\u2019t only protect the environment, we also improve governance.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa .<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>It\u2019s a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>It\u2019s the little things citizens do. That\u2019s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>There\u2019s a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Wangari Maathai<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia , anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn\u2019t have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>I can\u2019t think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa , more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa .<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya , which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>To investigate the history of man\u2019s development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>-Richard Leakey<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jamhuri Day (#JamhuriDay) is a heroes day as well as Mashujaa Day (#Mashujaa Day)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magari poa wishes all Kenya a Happy Mashujaa Day, Enjoy the following quotes by Kenyans and about Kenya: \u201cWe\u2019re small because when they took them (Africans) into slavery, they took the big ones.\u201d \u2013 Mwanasiti, a Kenyan woman, accounting for the small size and height of Kenyans \u201cIn Kenya you\u2019ve got the great birds and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1644,1836,1636,1640,1838,1835,1635,1639,1837,1638,1642,1641,1643,1637],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-hominid-fossils","tag-independence-day","tag-jamhuri-day","tag-jomo-kenyatta","tag-katiba-day","tag-kenyatta-day","tag-mashujaa-day","tag-mwai-kibaki","tag-pulmugation-od-the-new-constitution","tag-raila-odinga","tag-richard-leaky","tag-uhuru","tag-vision-2030","tag-wangari-mathaai"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-gu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/mashujaa-kenya-magaripoa.jpg?fit=2048%2C1002&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}