I hate wiseacres like Odwe. Instead of requesting to be educated, they display their ignorance about an issue by pretending to know more about that culture than the people who belong to it. There is nothing backward about the three phrases he refers to and therefore there is nothing wise about resisting them.
I'm in no mood now to start explaining to him the whole background of those phrases, but I'd just like to point out to him that 'yedira ki' (i.e. the clans) is the basis on which the whole Kiganda culture is built on. The clans are the means through which a Muganda can identify him/herself. There are several reasons why one has to know which clan he/she belongs to. For more information he should ask a Muganda near him (but he has to be a real Muganda).
Kasangwawo
From: Rehema Mukooza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: ugnet_: Re: Mulindwa is not Mulindwa! - Can the North survive without the South??
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 14:57:43 -0800 (PST)
Odwe:
Hahahaha, do not make me laugh! "Oyo yedira ki, mwana wani, oyo munamawanga etc" is practiced by Northerners. Recently these Northerners refused to apologize to Luwero people for the atrocities they committed on them. The reason was because they are Baganda. These Northerners apologized or burried the differences between themselves (Acholi, Langi, Teso) but they could not do the same to themselves. You see with such kind of discrimination, do you really think Museveni is stupid?? He can deal with that nonsense real well and manipulate it to his own advantage.
Uganda has tribes and tribal identity is very alive. We have Odwe who identifies himself as a Northerner. Why do Northerners want to fit in in Buganda, anyway?? May I ask. Why don't they like Southerners in the North and yet they want to come to the South?? This is the kind of nonsense and sillyness many Northerners feed on. They are indeed living in a fantasia. They panic whenever a Southerner buys land in the North. Why?? Because our brothers and sisters in the North descriminate against tribes. That's how they've have been in the past and I don't see them changing in the near future either.
Edward is not what he is presenting himself to be to us. That's the truth. Odwe, you can make up stories of how you've meet this man and I don't give an ear to such lies. Any fool can come here and try to convience me how he/she has met "Mulindwa". And how "Mulindwa" never asked for his/her tribe. I have had a different encounter of "Mulindwa" contrally to yours. The first thing Edward ever asked me on this forum when I was new as my tribe. He automatically tribalized me to the Kiganda tribe. That's why I can not believe this lie of yours. I am a critical thinker. This nonsense can not work with me. Try a new lie.
Uganda is diverse. We have to accept that. More Northerners are moving Southwards than Southerners moving North, in times of peace. Why?? This is the kind of stupidity I will not tolerate. Can the North survive without the South?? You need to have sense in your brain cells. Uganda is tired of liars like you, that is why this country is stil backwards.
Zakoomu M.
joseph odwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Members
There are many other important things we should be focusing on instead of allowing ourselves to be diverted by the itellectually lost bunch, who have opted for such silyness in the absence of sound keen reasoning to any inteligent questions and points put to them. The questions and points to which they solicite by their obvious hunger for knowledge depicted through their utterances here on the forum. I happened to meet Mr. Mulindwa back in 2000 when he visted London Ontario from his base then in Toronto. Belief me he is what Uganda needs. He is one of those who have seen the wisdom in resisting the "oyo yedira ki, mwana wani, oyo munamawanga etc" bakward thinking that some regretably share to this day. In fact I don't remember Mulindwa having asked me as the tribe I belong to. After being introduced to him as a fellow Ugandan we got right into normal coversation that lead us to the brain storming about our country's herples situation. I must also admit that during the discusi
on he
opened my mind so much as to what we could do as an individual and as a group to futher the cause of our motherland. Let's stop dweling on individualistic interests that tend divid our people along un-productive ventures. Anyone who advocates for any form of protectionistic approach to any issue would only be admitting the weakness of such product or in this case culture to trive by itself along side others. Fellow Ugandans who have sturbonly chosen to live in the oudated thinking and mindset which imprisons their productive reasoning capacity would rather hold the whole country in captivity than think anew. To those I say open your mind for new ideas and thinking please. Uganda can entertain divisionitic gosips any longer. We have an tremendous task to free our motherland at hand. To whose side are playing on such thinking and waste of energy or you'r at work?
>From: "aokwong-okumu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] Mulindwa is not Mulindwa! - is this a joke?
>Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 00:08:37 -0500
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>HI,
> Mulindwa is MULINDWA, alive in the same skin I have known him in since September 1989 when I came to Toronto and met him. He has grown day and night, intellectually since the advent the world wide web. The unfortunate thing about UGANDANS is that they think and believe that one is educated only and only if he went into a class or lecture hall. It is a myopic belief, which those who have it and their classroom/lecture hall education think they have a right and only them can comment/analyse/prescribe to Uganda's political chaos. My brother Mulindwa gooo on, make their blood boil with your incisive questions and commentry. May Allah sharpen your mind and make it more potent!.
>
>Aloysius.
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