Based on social research conducted by Kandie Institute of Political Science, Many our young people from middle class and peasantry believe and dream about going to the States, Arabian Peninsula, "prestigious" Europe, Australia and other parts of the world in the name of greener pastures as well as the highly and quality education. The general assumption is that the world over their is assumed to be heavenly, full of money and opportunities, ideally place full of comfort and environment that is not polluted and good and humane people. But that is not the narrative. It is the wrong perception that is draining many young people, guardians and parents. The situation is entirely different. Many don't say but the state outside there is dehumanizing, cruel, hostile, busy and bias.
Those who said East-West Home home is the best said it out of logic. I dare to say, Africa is the best and original continent with good people. The only difference between us and them is may be infrastructural and technological developments that we would also achieve over time and only if we deal with the vices facing us.
In the outside, based on the evidence on media and confessions many of people in diaspora are living and learning the hard way.
The open and hidden racial hostility amongst our people in the States and Continental Europe is in itself at worst but many opt to live in silence. In the Transport sector any black driver or any car carrying black people is treated differently from those carrying whites. They are stopped many times !!! We apppear as lesser beings.
In places of works either private or public many black people employed in Western Countries are "only" allowed under middle and subordinate cadre. The rest of Top Management is preserved for supreme race: Whites and natives.
The best job perhaps we may learn in the US so first with little education is the Military, and upon swearing to serve the American People diligently you are sent to Persian gulf, Arabian Peninsula and other war torn regions to serve American industry.
Dirty jobs though sounding humane are jobs many of our diaspora communities do but they keep it silent to minimize humiliation. Looking after the elderly while your mum and dad are languishing at home, cleanings, Waiters and Waitresses, Disco Bouncers, Petrol Station attendance, and other inferior jobs that anyone who have invested 20 years in education may not wish to do so.
In the Gulf Nations, many suffer in the brutal and merciless hands of inhumane employs, many are maimed, killed, raped, sodomised, beaten, clobbered but because they are resilient people who were told by agents that life in Arabian Peninsula is good, have no option but to persevere.
Many have come home in caskets. Many have disappeared. Many have lost dignity. All in the name of going for greener pastures. However much we have issues in Kenya.
Many of Africans in Israel and other countries are on the verge of being deported to many countries in Africa but no Israeli in Kenya or during the Pre and Post 1948 UN resolution of Jewish State has ever been deported from any part of the world. That demonstrates inhumanity act from the nations we desire to go in the name of good life. It is time to reason beyond.
Most of those who are married by whites are believed to live in luxury and great happiness. The truth is that it is not as we think. Many have been used as sex objects. Many have been divorced and some of them though they do not say are facing abominable encounters but won't say. They suffer in silence.
If indeed Diaspora was good why are sons and daughters of the Millionaires and Billionaires of Kenya study in Kenya ? And if indeed Diaspora was good, Why are the Africans extremely rich are very selective on foreign academic institutions they select for their Children ?
Why is that the rich prefer that immediately after their children are done with foreign schooling, they immediately come home ?
Why is that those who have been in abroad for many many years have invested so minimal in their local homes or even empower their immediate family members ?
Even those who were married over there still their local families struggle below the dollar in most cases ?
Why many of Italian foreign billionaires prefer it best to reside Mombasa and Mahindi until they die why we year to visit Rome and Milan ?
The logical answers to this questions display the better fact that East West Home is the best !!! If indeed there was reverse gears...... all these people in abroad will be back.
I don't mean that the world is bad. What I basically mean is that the world we are is good only if we identify the potentials.
Another important aspect is that we need to demistify the wrong perception of glorifying abroad while in real sense we are in a beautiful environment that is has a balance all through the year. No extreme summer or winter !
By Dennis Kandie,
Director and Founder of Kandie Institute of Political Science as as Kandie Intelligence and Cables Headquarters.
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