Serfdom inherited by Africans

Jomo Kenyatta was the first President of Kenya. His date of birth, sometime in the early to mid-1890s, is unclear, and was unclear even to him, as his parents were illiterate, and no formal birth records of Africans were kept in Kenya at that time. 

However, most biographies give his date of birth as October 20, 1891. Kenya observed a public holiday every 20 October in Jomo Kenyatta’s honor until the 2010 constitution abolished Kenyatta Day and replaced it with Mashujaa (Heroes’) day.

Here are Ten Powerful Quotes by Jomo Kenyatta:

“Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.”

“When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.”

“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.” ~from the dedication in his book Facing Mount Kenya (1938).

“Many people may think that, now there is Uhuru, 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.” ~from an Independence Day message to the people, as quoted in Sanford Ungar’s Africa, the People and Politics of an Emerging Continent, New York, 1985.

“Many people may think that, now there is Uhuru, 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.”

“The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers … those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.”

“God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people… 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.” ~from a speech given in Nyeri, Kenya, 26 July 1952.

“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.” 

“Don’t be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.”

“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 … 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 forever.” 

Rev. Malong Baak

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Never Let Things You Want Make You Forget Things You Have

Never Let Things You Want Make You Forget Things You Have

Do not let your wants deprive you of making the best use of every good thing God has already given to you. Make the best use of your life. Do not wants or seek to be like others, be yourself. Do not copy anyone, live your original life. Do not aim to speak like someone, speak the way God created you. Do not intend to walk like others, walk the way God created you. Be original.

If you copy others by living their lives, you will only be the second best because you can never be better than whosoever you are copying

You have freedom, don’t let whatever you want take away your freedom. Many people have been incapacitated today because of their wants. They can’t move to anywhere on their own without the authority knowing about it. They are imprisoned. Because they want more money, more prestige, more fame and more respect; they have gone out of their way to seek more money in an ungodly way and nemesis has catch up with them. As you may know before, there is a tiny gap between freedom and imprisonment. It is therefore important to avoid anything that can bring quick money, quick fame, quick prestige and quick honor in a way that is contrary to God. Take care and be careful so that what you want will not take away the freedom you already have.

You have families, parents, husband, wife, children, friends, relatives, colleagues and neighbors. Don’t let whatever you seek or want take away your people from you. Some people have lost their families, friends and relatives because of their wants. They traded their people for their wants and thereby they can no longer identify with such friends and families. Some others have, through their unabated wants, brought shame on their families and friends; hence, they have been renounced by their loved ones.

Your children need you. Your parents need you. Your friends will be happy to have you. Your relatives will not like to pass through the pain of visiting you in the prison or hospital or the pain of mourning you. Your colleagues still need their blossom friend in the office, your community still needs that vibrant neighbor, your nation still needs that law-abiding citizen and above all, the church, the Kingdom of God still needs that heaven-bound brother or sister.

What can make you not fulfill the above expectations of your friends, families and the church? Drop those and seek the face of God. You don’t need a million dollar before you can live peacefully and successfully here on earth. One thing you need in addition to godliness is contentment. No wonder Apostle Paul advised Timothy about contentment in 1 Timothy 6:6, he said, “But godliness with contentment is great gain” For you to have great gain, you must be content with what you have. I am not saying you should not aspire, but your aspirations must be tailored and structured by Christ to the glory of God. Anything outside that is of the devil and can never yield and good result but will only lead to perdition. Beware!

What are your wants? What are you seeking to become? Weigh those things whether they are in line with God. If not, drop them. Remember, the Bible says, “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

You have peace, don’t let whatever you seek take away your peace from you. Take things easy. Do not become someone who will be running up and down, to and fro from the authority or friends and families. Take life easy! Put God first and you will have good success. Remember, the Bible says “He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.” 1 Samuel 2:9KJV)

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5 NIV)

You have Christ Jesus, don’t let whatever you seek or want take away Jesus Christ from you. To tell you the truth, there is nothing you can have, be or achieve in life that is greater than having Jesus Christ as your Lord and your Savior. Hold on tight to Him because He is the secret of your success and joy, as well as the hope of your glory.

Christ Himself said, “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” (John 15:5 KJV.)

It is not possible to achieve anything in life outside Christ, therefore stick to Him, and you will not achieve only here on earth but you will also reign with Christ in heaven. 

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