Vukoni,
Bail me out here:
WHAT WAS THE CENTRALITY IN THE RAT EATING? I do not think the significance in the particular "rat eating" var gastronomi.
Rgds
Noc'l
--- On Sun 04/03, Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:44:57 -0500
Subject: Re: [Ugnet] Rat eating Iteso are not serious!
Ndugu Mitayo,
So, now the newest solution to Africa's problems boils down to a matter
of changing culinary tastes? With all due respect to your African
American friend, if he was serious about what he said, I wouldn't
hesitate to call him IGNORANT and STUPID.
And in defence of those eating rats and snakes, I don't think that
practice has any negative implications for our economies in Africa as
long as we don't import the delicacies from China or other rat- and
-snake eating places. A diet of rats and snakes may actually be an
environmentally friendly way to keep down the population of vermin.
What I can't quite take is eating raw rat
s to prove a political point.
It's as brainless as wearing dry banana leaves in support of Museveni's
quest for life presidency.
vukoni
Mitayo Potosi wrote:
>
> An African-American man was bitter to me recently, that if we
> continental Africans stopped wasting time in eating snakes and rats
> maybe we all would hasten our emancipation.
>
> My first instinct was anger at him, but then I remembered the
> herds-boys in South Africa who, while grazing the animals, roast
> snakes. ('They hold the tail and swirl the snake - making it "drunk"
> and immobile, and then put it aside, to make fire').
>
> Still, I was mad for our categorization as rat eaters!!
>
> But lo and behold - hardly more than a week has passed and rat-eating
> rears its ugly head; and morever, as part of President Museveni's
> State dialogue with citizens!!
>
> One wonders w
hether to laugh or cry!!
>
> =============================================================
> Rat eating Iteso are not serious!
>
> It is interesting to note that although civilization has been around
> for years, some citizens still hold onto outdated cultural practices.
> A headline in the The New Vision of Friday, March 4, 2005: Man Eats
> Rat For District is very instructive. I was stunned to read that some
> Iteso chewed raw rats in front of President Yoweri Museveni, to prove
> their ancestry in Tororo County and to demand that the county be
> elevated to district status. Such barbaric and horrendous acts do not
> justify ancestry.
>
> Rather, they portray insanity. Rodents are supposed to be a delicacy
> for cats but not for human beings! The Iteso from Tororo should learn
> that it is not the number of rats eaten but the number of reasons
> given that will c
onvince relevant authorities to grant them a district.
>
> Henry Onyango,
> Kampala.
>
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