rom: NZEYIMANA Emery Fabrice
To: Edward Mulindwa ; RwandaNET ; Rwanda-L ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [abujaNig] WINE DRINKING AND COLONIAL MENTALITY
Hello Mulindwa,
Could you please help me and pass this message to Alao or simply forward it to
the AbujaNig group since I am talking on a thread started there?
Dear Alao,
The point you raised about colonial mentality is very important but you added
possibly misleading information. From your message, It appears as if only
people from so-called "francophone countries" have that colonial mentality.
This is a problem of the entire continent, not only "francophone countries".
You will realize that I write francophone with reserve since I don't agree that
Rwanda, my country, is a francophone country. Most Rwandans (more than 75 %)
don't speak neither french nor english (I don't have exact statistics though).
They speak Kinyarwanda (which is our mother language for the entire country).
So, I never understand those people who say that Rwanda is a francophone
country (and of course those who say that it is becoming an anglophone
country).
Because I can speak english and french, those who are less informed say that I
am bilingual: wrong because I speak Kinyarwanda more than any of the two. There
are things I can only express in Kinyarwanda (like feelings and other
impossible-for-foreigners-to-understand as we call them in Kinyarwanda
[INSHOBERAMAHANGA]). But still, they call me bilingual which I find insulting
since they try to enforce the slave era mentality that Africans had no
languages.
By the way, we don't have palm trees in Rwanda. We instead have Bananas giving
the greatest wine known locally as URWAGWA. Don't be surprised if you hear some
Rwandans who have never tested it (some think locally made stuffs are for poor
rural peasants !!!). I think US$ 25 000 would plant thousands of them.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Subject: [rwanda-l] Fw: [abujaNig] WINE DRINKING AND COLONIAL MENTALITY
From: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:04:44 -0400
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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CC: <[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Pan-Africanist Forum"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL
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Alao Babajide
You raise a very good reason, and I continue that I have two bottles of
Uganda Waragi that I have kept now for ten years, can I auction them?
EM
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ibukunolu Alao Babajide
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 3:55 AM
Subject: [abujaNig] WINE DRINKING AND COLONIAL MENTALITY
Dear Friends,
I have worked with a few people from the Francophone countries who think and
feel that anything European or French like wine drinking, haute couture,
perfumes, etc etc are superior to African things. They therefore live like
Europeans in their heads and minds but sport a black skin. What other than
sheer packaging and brain-washing can be corked in a bottle and be made to be
worth $25,000.00 - Imagine the number of palm trees that $25,000.00 will grow
in Africa and the drums of palm wine that we can generate from that talk less
of the kain-kain, burukutu, and ogogoro that we can produce.
I have drunk wine(s) from Australia, France, Portugal, California, and my Inn
of Court serves only Port from Portugal. I swear none even the $30,000.00
ones ever compare to the humble palm wine that I drank at Ya' ko yo (Stop by
and be fed) a village near Ile Ife and another one I drank in Oke Igbo on my
way from Ile-Ife to Ondo town.
Why have we thrown away all that is great and good in us in Africa and we
embrace cheap and less useful products simply because they are foreign.
People who are enslaved in their minds think this way. If I bottle palm wine
for 30 years and place it for auction will a European send an e-mail to fellow
Europeans to come and buy it at $10.000.00 talk less of this insane and
obscene amount for less than a litre of alcohol? Palm wine has yeast that is
great for the eyes. Tell me what is healthy in that stupid bottle and the
stupider call to call Africans to come and waste hard earned money on a silly
acquired taste.
Everything is in the mind - when we treat the colonised minds of Africans, our
bondage will be over and our genuine liberation will start.
Cheers.
IBK
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Received: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:50:46 AM EAT
From: "Edward Mulindwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [abujaNig] ARE YOU A WINE DRINKER?
People
To those interested in wine, there are two bottles of Richebourg wine that
have been put up for auction in Toronto. Starting bidding price a bottle is
25,000 dollars. They are fifty years old. So if you are interested in wine
collection don't miss this opportunity for a nice wine.
EM
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
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