Now because the district was being claimed by the Japs and the Iteso the guys ate the rat to prove to the Japs that Oguti was Iteso and daring the Japs to eat a rat too if they want to lay claim to the district.
Kiggs
On 4 Apr 2005, at 11:00, Okuto del Coli wrote:
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 for years, some citizens still hold onto outdated cultural practices.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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