28/04/2023
When you come to think of it;African history has a disconnect between precolonial and post colonial period.One can easily tell what happened during and post colonial period.This generation is almost a blank slate on matters precolonial period.Academically,we interact with history of the Caucasian stoke that dates back as far as humanity began.Their is nothing on the African people except the fact that Africa is the cradle for mankind(based on archeological evidence) and maybe something about slave trade and early kingdoms such as Buganda kingdom.and whenever there is, it is from Eorupean records or whichever race that was exploring in Africa.That is why we had the explorers 'discovering' African mountains and lakes as if Africans did not exist .Like any other race,we had a life as a black people but it is 'erased'.The black race must learn from the past as humanity progresses.Much History on Africa is from an interpreted perspective,not a first hand account of events or materials that have a direct relationship to the context of the events .Again,African oral tradition is not considered at all or taken lightly when considered,not only by other people on this Earth but even amongst ourselves. I, in many occasions have shared accounts from what I have heard and read growing up as kalenjin,about a lot within the Kalenjin set up and I encountered a fair degree of disbelief bluntly, boldly laughed off as one of those 'stori za jaba'.Studying German,I have learnt a thing or two about Germans.Learning the language goes hand in hand with getting to know them culturally too.They sell their ways of life ,their ideas to the world.Back home,a lot is 'sacred' women can't know this or that; children can't know this or that or better still ,a certain tribe can't know this about us.We don't sell our ways of doing things or rather consequently opposed to culture growing through critical 'review' from our immediate next sorrounding,it remains within and becomes somehow primitive and can't therefore stand time.Culture known to the world is embraced in a best case scenario and trimmed in worst case scenario.It is also,as it is embraced,preserved.