A letter to my guest who later decided to be my enemy. Dear Sir, I write this letter in pains. My heart is bleeding because I cannot come into terms with what you have done to my children. I was kind enough no to chase you on your first arrival. I was kind enough to allow you to occupy my space. It did not take you a very long time to wage war on me and my children. You never cared about the goodness of my heart. You defeated me in the battle to defend myself, my children and my turfs with everything in them. You fought me everywhere. You instilled fear in my children. You made them your slaves. You introduced education. You taught them to hate themselves. You taught them to prefer you more than me. You taught them your religion. You threatened them with punishment. You taught my children that they will burn in Hell. My children were original. You changed them. You made them to despise themselves. Today my daughters are proud of wearing your artificial and processed hair. You made my children to hate what my God bestowed on them. You made them to be proud of fake things. Believe me you did not do all this because you were wiser than me but you did this because your God was leading your fight. Your God intervened. That is the reason you appeared superior and that is the reason my children were mentally destroyed. I am glad for one thing, my God did not forsake me and my children. My God is still with me and my children. He made my children realize that you are a liar and you cannot be trusted. My children continued with the battle for freedom and independence. And after so much I have given you are still not satisfied. I accepted your principles. I accepted your civilization. I forgave you and agreed to go for elections equal with you. I don’t expect you to oppose me but I expect you to be ashamed. I expect you to work with me and show remorse. I expect you to work hard to redress the past. Your continuous fight with me makes me realize that you are an ungrateful person who can never be satisfied. Of late you are spying on my children. You write about them on papers. You say they are corrupt, incompetent and cannot be trusted. Some of my children who suffer a mental defeat and who lack pride in themselves are following you. They see themselves through your eyes. They are busy opposing their own brothers and sisters. I can’t blame them because you brain washed them. Let me remind you of the following: My existence was never a fault in the creation. My God knows why I and my children are here. You found us not wanting. You found us not sick. You found not fighting. You found us having a proper administration in our own standards. There was justice and order in my children. Our Kingdoms were suitable for our circumstances. We needed no prisons because we never had a situation that necessitated that a man be locked up just to waste his time and destroy his mind permanently. You came to destruct my people and you created prisons in the process because they were helping your agenda. I had a justice system that was working smoother than yours. I was always listening to the other side. I never detained my children. My children knew what was right and what was wrong. I had a better system to deal with circumstances of promiscuous wives. I was punishing the man by means of a fine. I was not promoting dissolution of marriages. There was peace among my children. The land was our only source of survival. We did not use tractors and harvesters but we were food secured. We never ran out of maize or meat. In fact we were spoiled for choice. We never killed our wild animals for sale as you are killing my rhinos and lions for trophies. Me and my children knew the culling season. We hunted in winter because we knew that none of our wild animals was pregnant in winter. Me and my children were drinking uncontaminated water. We drank natural spring water. My rivers were free from chemical pollution. Your mines did nothing good to my land except to pollute my rivers, damage my landscape and displace my children. You export million tons of gold and diamond at the expense of my children. They bear the negative consequences ranging from air pollution to poor wages, unfair labour practice to unfair dismissals. My grandmother was a midwife to my pregnant daughters. I had no gynecologists but my indigenous knowledge enabled me to tell if it’s a boy or a girl that was being carried by a pregnant woman. In certain circumstances I threw bones to determine illnesses. I did not need a fancy laboratory to process my medicine. I gave my children organic plants that I picked from the homestead or from the fields. I ground them using a stone. At that time my children never suffered from incurable diseases or illnesses. I passed knowledge to my children through a word of mouth. My granny would sit with them in the evening around the fire. She would tell them stories of life. The stories were well articulated and were about miracles and wisdom. Don’t be surprised when I tell you that my God works in miracles. He is communicating with me and my children in so many ways. Some things come us in dreams. We see visions. We hear messages. Our ancestors are our angels. Let me say goodbye for now. But I am not done. I am totally unhappy with your attitude. You are not thankful. I have given you so much and I demand nothing because I love peace. My forgiveness must not make you think I am a fool. This is my space.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:59:30 +0000
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