{UAH} Why do we forget people quickly after their death?

By Professor Afuna Adula:

Many people are forgotten as soon as they die  on society, or because they reigned injustice or oppression on people, or robbed national resources for self aggrandizement instead of being transformational and developmental for the common good.

There was a veteran journalist called Musa Njuki between 1986 And the very early 1990s. He published a magazine called The Shariat. It was a popular magazine, which sought to build an open, self-critical society. I used to read it a lot. Unfortunately, he was arrested and died in a police cell. I remember when he was arrested his magazine had just published an article, which claimed that a secret document was found in 2960 in the thick forests of Congo. 

The story was that refugees organising themselves to invade Rwanda and then establish their ethnic hegemony over the Great Lakes Region and the whole cattle region up to Namibia. According to the story, the strategy was to conquer the natives first using four major tools: the beautiful women of the group, jobs, drink and money. 

Women would be allowed to inflitrate the genetic pool of the natives through marriage. According to the story, the children born by the women belong to the group; not to the natives. 

Drink would be used to stupefy the natives and distort their thinking, eventually making them dependent on the group for anything. If you have no time to think you can be used to do anything, even against yourself. You will have no time for originality in thought and will most likely be an extension of the thought equipment of the drink providers.

Jobs are a source of self-actualization. The one who gives them has power and influence on those who are given  the jobs. They can be used to marshal loyalty required to ensure continuity of power and influence over a people. They can be given selectively and used to create disharmony among a people subject to manipulation through jobs. People of same qualifications and experience may not get rewarded the same way even if they are at the same rank in terms of salary. One may even be boss of the other even if they are equal in exposition. That will make people feel inadequate and vulnerable. They can be easily hired and fired at will to conquer their self-concepts.

According to Musa Njuki's story, money was to be the most effective tool for conquering he natives. It would be made more important than anything else. It would be concentrated in the hands of the conquerors who would then use it to achieve their goals of conquest, power, wealth, domination and control. Those with money would control the lives, thinking and movements of the natives. The would be worshipped and glorified. They would choose who to give free money or deny money either to build loyalty or dismantle disloyalty. If people over time started to worship money, they would be compelled to destroy their social and cultural ethical-moral fabrics and to surrender to money. Like drink money would stupefy many natives and make them easily manipulatable in service of the conquerors.

It is many years since Njuki collapsed in a police cell and died. 

*How much of what he wrote has come to pass?*

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