Let’s mobilize our community to know their rights.
We are a peace loving people. We try to do the best we can and go along with everybody even when we know we are sidelined. We are a people not well represented. We all know that we ought to be protected by our sovereign state but we are suffering quietly. We don’t like to cry in public and we can take a hit or two and still hold unto our faith.
We can elect the same Member of Parliament even when they reveal to be unwilling to help us as the one who was before him (HIM-not a single Maasai woman elected so far). All our cows can die as we migrate them along a 12m long colonial fence that took away our livelihood and identity and we cannot do anything because they are nowadays wildlife conservancies and we a wildlife loving community. FINE, FINE… YOU ALL KNOW THAT OUR GIRLS ARE CIRCUMCISED BUT WE, THE EDUCATED YOUTH ARE SERIOUSLY AGAINST THE RETROGRESSIVE TRADITION THAT DISCRIMINATE OUR GIRLS FROM ENJOYING THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO THEIR BODIES.
We don’t normally like to talk about sex and anything to do with this topic because is just not anything we do and absolutely not in public. However, the youth are learning how to write and type and even use online video to air their grievances. We, the younger generation of the Mukogodo Conservancy wants to be free from all oppressive ways of life. This is why we want to join our efforts as community mobilizers! That is us the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania.
Muraang Kipish. Yes, it’s about you and me, and Mepukori and, now let’s see the other soldier in Nairobi, thinking, and the other banker, and the other KWS, and the other social worker in Nanyuki? So many well placed Maasai grassroots “Tools”! That is what we need and we already have it.
OK, we know that the government is very heavy and slow! Let’s see what we can do for ourselves first! Can we mobilize each other with the word(s) you have the right to equal participation or you have the right to a portion of the cake! Kila mtoto ako na haki zake sio? Haya ambiya mwenzako(genderJ) lets peacefully and obediently engage in a civilized dialogue with the system.
We need 200 informed mobilizers. You already know what you want but no one gonna give you if you don’t ask for it! 1 step at a time.
Koree Laikitalak loo Laikipiak? Akiti! Eishaitie loodo kilani ntare engae?……:)
Saidimu Ole Ngais.
