SV: SV: {UAH} Pakasa/toil forum in Kampala: Are we in diaspora too negative?

WBK,

Let me just jump into this question of yours, by saying that I think, there had never been any Pakasa / true hard-work and, or pure labouring for the last 30 plus continuous years of the NRA/M7ism regime.  I hope I can recall that, during my youth days in the late 1950s running through the early 1960s we were used with pure Pakasa/true hard-work and, or pure labouring to get our school fees and school uniforms and other needs.

I remember, staying very far from my primary school, but I must wake up in the every morning daily and go to dig a piece of land for a field where I must plant my cotton, which I must work on it every time till harvest period. The little cotton lint I got would be sold and some little amount of money got from it would be added with the ones my parents had harvested. Later, the school fees and school uniforms and other needs were bought.

These days, when I went home, I found that the younger generations do not do what we did in the past for our school fees and our school uniforms. This means, these days the younger folks just loiter in towns and they have forgotten the issues of Pakasa, true hard-working and, or pure labouring. At the building sides in Gulu, I was shock whereby I saw older people work harder than the younger generation. In short, the younger generations do want quick money, but not hard work.

 

Ocaya pOcure  

 

Den lördag, 23 augusti 2014 21:16 skrev WB <kyijomanyi@hotmail.com>:

Mr Ocaya:
 
I agree with you. I also worked hard during holidays as  conductor/inspector/turn boy on family bus to earn pocket money.  I had found minding the shop boring and restrictive so preferred the bus. The good thing about it is that I came to know parts of Uganda from Kampala all the way to Gulu via Mbale.  So in the 70s hard work was the norm.  Many of our classmates made their fees/pocket money through 'casee'/coffee/magendo. 
 
Although our generation was arguably the most traumatized and oppressed, we embraced hard work.
 
Talking about cotton. Many in UAH may be surprised to know that Busoga was one of the leading cotton growers in Uganda.
 
It may take Pakasa forum to remind Ugandan youth that hard work/honest living is preferable to idling/corruption. But to be effective it must spread out throughout the country especially the countryside to try and check the attitude of Ugandan youth and adults too.
 
Pakasa also needs a motto glorifying hard work.
 
WBK
 

 

Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 19:55:46 +0100
From: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com
Subject: SV: {UAH} Pakasa/toil forum in Kampala: Are we in diaspora too negative?
To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com

WBK,

Let me just jump into this question, by saying there that had never been any Pakasa / true hard-work and, or pure labouring. I hope you can recall that, during my youth days in the late 1950s running through the early 1960s we were used with pure Pakasa/true hard-work and, or pure labouring to get our school fees and school uniforms.

I remember, staying very far from my primary school, but I must wake up in the morning and go to dig a piece of field where I must plant my cotton, which I must work on it till harvest time. The little cotton lint would be sold and some little amount of money got will be added with the ones my parents had harvest. Later, the school fees and school uniforms are bought.

These days, when I went home, I found that the younger generations do not do what we did for our school fees and our school uniforms. This means, these days the young folks just loiter in towns and they have forgotten the issues of Pakasa, true hard-working and, or pure labouring.

Ocaya pOcure  

Den lördag, 23 augusti 2014 20:36 skrev WB <kyijomanyi@hotmail.com>:

Folks:
 
Let me pose this provocative question: are those of us in the Diaspora too negative to appreciate the good in Uganda? Put differently is Uganda undergoing some form of what Schumpeter famously called 'creative destructive'.
 
I ask because the Pakasa ideal and its promotion of hard work/ honest living is something that needs to be harnessed.  So who is against pakasa/toil and why?
 
 
WBK
 

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