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The Second Leg of the Mission

The mission embarks on its second stage, based on the values of peace, reasoned dialogue and the strong ancestral origins of a shared life.

WE'VE COME A LONG WAY!

The question now is, how do we continue to define ourselves? Who are we? Are we apes or are we human beings? Are we more special than the rest?

These questions call us to take a good look at our children who mirror our future.
1. What kind of education are we instilling in our children? Is it acceptable and comparable to the guidance of our ancestors' Gods? Is it acceptable to the very spirits of our struggle and awareness?
2. What are the definitions and importance of our values to our children? Are divorces the best way to go? Is the family any longer united? Let us go nowhere without one voice! We hope, as ever, to achieve peace.
3. What about justice for our children? The ways of our fathers and ancestors, the reasons for their actions (pros and cons ) - how significant are these still? What are the failures and triumphs of those rituals - especially those which were not debatable and banished as unbonding? What we know is that blood had to be shed for drought to end, for wars to stop. It was obvious that the rain god was not happy with the verdict passed. Showing the magnitude of our lesson and plea for forgiveness, blood had to be shed. A life had to be given as proof of a testament.
But are we better now with our modern justice system? What is it that our intelligence is measured on? The INDUNAS and ongeren, bura's, the baraza justice system… was incorruptible. It belonged to the people. They had a right to listen and consult with the Gods and pass the judgment, and that judgment was acceptable to the parties concerned. Is this to be denied our children?
4. The very fact of the mission's Journey, whose main objective has been peace through freedom to unite, shows that something else can be possible. It is promoting interaction and participation in peace debates from the primitive minority point of view. This is something our children need to know.

Starting from the universe's level (which is the solitary being), it seems there is an individual right to claim one's clan. There is also a right for the individual to claim minority rights - of freedom, self-definition and clan-definition, and choice.

Our goal has been to see to it that respect of our values is restored. And while land is a major component of the solutions to the present world crisis, it has also has been one of the symbols associated with the mission. The four elements of life - water, air, fire and land - are now owned by individuals, but in fact they are universal resources that ought to be utilized for the good benefit of all.

I have found out through my journey that respect is the way to love. It is a priceless value. No respect means no love, no peace. So the minority has to be respected and allowed the benefits that come from the use of the God-given natural resources.

In terms of peace, it is sadly true that the modern world has never known total peace at any given time and that tells us of which way we are going. We had an exhibition in Cape Town entitled NO BORDERS, addressing the issue of uniting, and breaking finally from the root principles of strongly held division. We need to break from the division caused by the fear of the unknown.

This will not be a running away from the ills in our society by building high fences and tying our faith and hope on the Panic button. Instead it will be what we need - a true solution. We shall not again price-tag our lives for auction by the highest bidders. In terms of security, we want to be secure without being forced to pay. For we all know that one cannot be at peace when buying and paying for freedom - that simply represents the use of blackmail and ransom.

Instead what we need is to break our borders and realize that we can only be stronger and win together.

In the exhibition, we faced the blunt brutality of borrowed rules and laws and outcomes: police cells, prisons, beatings and deportations. This has definitely strengthened my will for peace and self-definition and my quest for freedom of movement. It has also strengthened my belief in the Nomadic nature of human beings, and dynamics of life itself.

We have now got underway to attract the world's attention to the Kenya's true nature. We went through a beautiful experience in our journey and effort to reveal to the world and Africa the reality of things in Kenya. We had a good media coverage and great support from most of the people.

I have realized that all people understand the need for unity and everyone wants and loves peace. But not many are ready for peace. In my opinion, the present undercover governance in our world is leading us to the bins. We've just come across the season for the East African time bomb (elections). And the wars in Africa are not going to be solved lightly if we choose to remain divided as Africans.

As part of the comfortable universe that we all want a piece of, solving the borders dispute will eventually be the only way through our problems. This border issue is being fought by those who do not believe in it.

This is because the walls are going down in other continents. For instance, the EU brought their walls down in order to unite - the same people who once introduced and erected the African borders. Their earlier colonialists once drew up the African borders and told us that we had to stay and leave in accordance with their paper drafts, their title-deeds which ensured that we remained enslaved to them. The paper world was eventually brought to Africa and used to buy Africa. This was the cost of the African lives, but it is an illusion - a paper illusion.

It has become evident through EU examples that the way for peace to prevail is for borders now to be entrusted to and governed by mutual agreements between neighbors. They would suggest that we have to define our borders before we expect to achieve peace and development in our world - most urgently in Africa.

But let us not be like the elephant calf, tied to a pole while young and conditioned to believe that even when the chain is released it still cannot move.

We cannot live in peace, in a paper controlled world. The truth is all that will free us from the bondage of destruction and make it possible for forgiveness to lead us to peace. Trust has to be the leading ethic of our society. We do not have to exchange anything for paper. And certainly not our values, not at all.

We have to bring down the divisive borders in and around us, for peace to be attained.

The borders have been designed to affect and infect the minds of the people ensuring that fear becomes the leader. But it is not true that you have to settle where some one wants you to settle. It is just a method of control



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