A letter to my beautiful stranger

Well, of late I have been having zero motivation to writing of articles simply because there is zero drama in my life. Every night after the long partying sessions with the boys, I usually stare at the ceiling of my room, waiting for a miraculous appearance of that `beautiful one that is born’. In the dark, I think about her and love her all over. Her red cute lips haunt me, her melodious voice serenades me. But then I think, why should I miss her instead of actually going out and search for her? But wait,  what if I go out and search for her then no positive outcome hits my face?

This is a short letter to you, my Beautiful stranger.

You, my beautiful stranger should show your way into my heart, teach me to love you right. Intimately brush your lips against mine so I can feel your breath, as you cuddle in my arms, I can feel your scent, as you sing along to the songs love, your melodious voice I will love. I want to hold you by your waist, and kiss all your sorrows away. Please, just listen to the loudness in my thoughts as I hope that you will come to me, I am optimistic you will come.

 I just want to see my life with that someone, so beautiful, so sweet and loving, nothing I will compare to you my beautiful stranger, no is one more perfect than you. I don’t want to feeI vulnerable in the presence of any other woman all i want is to always love you. So as I cry out loud in my thoughts tonight, I know, I know that this letter will hopefully reach you, that you will forever remain my gorgeous mistake. A mistake I will not be ashamed to call my own, my most beautiful fault. So I can live to tell of this tale of love to my lovely, lonely nights.

But again, my inner feelings tell me that am done for good this time round. Go and tell the night to stop bringing you to me in my dreams, tell the night I have had enough of this bullshit, tell the night that I am actually trying to forget how loving you feel like. I shouldn’t even like you, because Kenny already sang the song to you, he told you NEVER to fall in love with a dreamer.

-guest writer Peter Kariuki Waigwa

RELIGIOUS BLACKMAIL...

Religious blackmailers. Oh My Goodness! Where the hell did you come from? Jupiter or Saturn itself, I guess! You keep posting queer messages and pics that drive me craa…zzyy! Arrrgghhh!. You make me feel like finding you and baptizing you myself in the name of the living, One  true God. Even Jesus who is the Son of God did not blackmail human beings. Instead, He told everyone the truth which many  didn’t want to hear. Jesus further encouraged human beings on the importance of private prayer. You don’t have to show people that your praying and God shall surely bless you. These people try to make you feel guilty if you don’t like or comment on their pics or status. Some of these blackmail messages include:

1.                  A naked girl could get millions of likes… Lets see how many likes Jesus can get.

This is usually written when they have posted a pic of Jesus and a nude girl!

2.                  If you love Jesus like and share. If you love satan ignore!!!

Normally this is a conversation between Jesus and satan.

3.                  Type Amen!  And God will give you your heart’s desires. What if your desire is to get wings?

4.                  If you don’t like and share this, then something bad is going to happen to you!

5.                  Share this with 12 people or groups and a miracle will happen to you.

6.                  Deny me in front of friends and I will deny you in front of my father if you don’t like and share this post.

Please, if you’re the type just repent and change. If not, show me where the Bible tells people to do this absurd things in order to receive love, mercies and blessings of God. If you think that the ticket to heaven is like the one you receive at the bus station or at an airport, then am sorry to disappoint you! You’re wrong as hell itself.

Lest I forget, Matatu pastors! Angel Gabriel Please come and save us all. Am sure all of you have experienced these preachers who always board Matatus to preach to people who are minding their own businesses. The other day I was on my way to town when a preacher boarded the bus. I thought he was going to a private service but alas! He stood right next to me and started telling people that God had sent him to come and preach to all those travelling to different places. At that time my head was pounding so hard and I didn’t want to hear any other noise apart from the one coming from the daytime club I was travelling in. To make matters worse, the preacher was giving us the weather instead of the news as he kept on spitting tiny droplets of saliva all over. Have you ever felt like committing a crime but your afraid of going to jail? Well, that was me at the time. After he finished preaching, he prayed. I thought he was going to get off, but instead he said cunningly that even God said that when a preacher finishes his duty he should be given “some water”. Water? like seriously?.  Some people contributed some money, but still he wanted more. I just had to take out a bottle of water from my hand bag and give him! After all, its only "water" he wanted. Right?

The fake miracle workers are another lot of preachers that disgusts me to my core. The gift of healing is very special and if you don’t have it, just don’t use lies in order to have more followers in your church so as to have more offerings. Most people who practice fake preaching and healing argue that it’s better to do what they do instead of engaging in crime. They forget that what they practice is a criminal offence. They contract people to give false testimonies of how God healed them. How do you get healed and you're not sick in the first place? Jesus too said he came for those who were ill and not the healthy ones. Although he never meant it literally, it’s the same thing. Use proper means to earn a livelihood because at the end of the day choices have consequences! I detest these religious blackmailers and forever will..

LET OUR ELEPHANTS LIVE!!!

The African elephants are the largest animals on land. They are gray in color and have a height of about 11ft tall. A mature male could weigh up to 6000 kg while a mature female could weigh about 4000 kg. Elephants also have tusks which are used for grasping objects, breathing, smelling, drinking water, lifting objects such as tree branches as well as sound production. Their large gray ears and wrinkled skin act as a cooling mechanism. They have 26teeth. 12 premolars and 12 molars and the two tusks themselves. One adult tusk weighs about 79kg for males and 20kg for females. These graceful animals move in large herds called parades.

Elephants in the Wild

Although elephants are way bigger than human beings, it is clear that we are more similar than we thought. For instance, did you know that these animals mourn their dead just like you and me? To top it all up, they shed tears to express their emotions of sadness when one of their own dies. They also give the deceased a good send off by burying them under dust or even covering them with branches and leaves whichever is available at the time. Elephants also pay homage to the dead by caressing their bones. Their memory capacity is very high as they tend to remember things that actually happened many years back. They are loving to each other and always stick by each other during hard and good times. In short, they are a typical extended family!

A weeping elephant

As graceful and as beautiful as these animals could be, they are facing a great challenge from the poachers who kill them for their tusks and sell them in the black market in Asia. This is such a great threat as these barbaric selfish acts could lead to their extinction! Very many countries have started seeing the effects of poaching and have moved a step further to create awareness against poaching. In 2013 for instance, more than 20,000 African elephants were killed by poachers for their tusks which was such a great loss to Africa and the whole world at large.

An elephant and its calf

The World elephants day was formed on August 12^th ,2012 to bring plight to the Asian and African elephants. Kenya as a country has been on the forefront to stop poaching of elephants since July 1989 when the then, President Daniel Moi ignited a pile of 12tonnes elephants’ tusks to send a strong message to the poachers that elephants with ivory are worth more than ivory without elephants. President Mwai Kibaki continued with the legacy when he burned 335 ivory tusks and  41,000 minklets at the Tsavo West National Park. On 3^rd March 2015, President Kenyatta set fire on 15tonnes of elephant  ivory tusks during a ceremony at the Nairobi National Park. Recently  on April 30^th, he also led in the setting up on fire of 105 tones of tusks piled up in pyramids. Many have argued that since Kenya is a poor country, the Ivory burned was worth more than three trillion, then Kenya should have sold it and acquired the money to develop the country. They forget that it’s like killing another human being in order to benefit from what he/she has left behind. Others went ahead to say the black market in Asia will hike the prices of Ivory leading to more poaching. Does it mean that if elephants never existed, that all these people would not have found another alternative of making a living  instead of taking away  innocent lives to create  “dead” objects? In my opinion, destroying of ivory is such a courageous act and other countries who have not joined the campaign against poaching should make an effort in doing so.

President Kenyatta getting ready to light the Ivory!

Other countries that have also taken measures in destroying the ivory include Gabon headed by President Ali Bongo Ondimba through fire. The United States of America has also engaged in the fight by crushing of the ivory which had been confiscated. In total, 14 African countries have also carried out ivory destruction and the fight is still on, stronger than it started. I do not understand why any individual would take pleasure in killing such huge animals just for two tusks without knowing the effects that it causes to the environment. They forget for, instance, that these animals help in  dissemination of seeds of all kinds from their waste.

The first lady Margaret Kenyatta lighting the Ivory

 

Let me ask you this question. Have you seen the way women  and their kids play and share so many moments? How happy do they look? They play with each other, kiss, hug and generally, their worlds revolve around each other. If circumstances separate them such as death, then there is pain, grief and depression. Tears and sadness never  seem to end and life for them seems like the end. It’s the same way poachers are destroying the lives of young elephants by killing their parents and leaving them in sadness and lasting tears. I don’t wish such kind of pain to anyone. Elephant calves go through depression when their mothers are killed. They could cry for days and refuse to eat just like humans.


Ivory on fire

 

The late Mother Teresa once said that if you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out and to keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. The same way if we all  want to eradicate poaching, then we have to keep talking about it and the effects it has to the decreasing numbers of elephants in the wild. Punishments that equal to murder should also be subjected to the poachers and their accomplices. The game wardens should also perform their duties to the best of their abilities to avoid compromising the lives of these elephants. I don’t wish for a scenario where the generations to come will only know that elephants existed through documentaries, pictures and books. I want them to see the elephants roam in the savanna gracefully just like many of us have done.
I BELIEVE THAT AN ELEPHANT ALIVE WITH TUSKS IS WORTH MORE THAN IVORY WITHOUT ELEPHANTS. DO YOU???

WOMEN ARE ANGELS…

A very intelligent person ones said that women are angels and even when someone breaks their wings, they simply continue to fly. They are flexible just like that. Women are very important people in the society as they form a part of us. Therefore, they should be treasured and honored for the great people they really are. Personally, I do appreciate and give women the respect they deserve. They carried all of us in their wombs for nine months, gave birth to us through so much pain, breastfed us, put up with all our tantrums, changed our nappies and diapers, kept us safe through thick and thin and more so gave us the basic education a child needs. In short, mothers are the first teachers that young children have to pass through. If you are a mother am sure you already know that the journey is not that easy. It has its ups and downs. Despite being wonderful people, there are various challenges that they go through most of which can be avoided by having a society that is well informed on the rights of women whether young or old.

I understand that it is not easy to change traditions overnight. But for heaven’s sake, for how long will the African people keep on using that phrase as an excuse not to do away with bad practices such as Female Genital Mutilation, Early marriages, Wife inheritance, Gender discrimination, breast ironing, painful tattooing, removal of teeth and other bad practices? FGM for instance is not even important; those who practice it do it because others did it:  which is not a good reason to cause a lot of pain in young women. Those who carry on FGM argue that they carry it out as a way to control women’s sexuality by removal of the clitoris in order to ensure that a girl preserves her virginity until marriage and to increase male sexual pleasure. I don’t understand why male sexual pleasure should make a young girl go through the knife. During the process of FGM, a girl can bleed to death or even get complications during childbirth. Breast ironing is another challenge whereby, breasts are pounded on with hard or heated objects in order to stop their development or to disappear. Africans, though, they always try  to correct what is not wrong and leave what ought to be repaired unattended to.

Women also suffer from poverty, hunger and homelessness. Sometime back, I was going through a local newspaper and I couldn’t help but notice a woman from Turkana County bury her own child in a shallow grave who had died of hunger. Women also tend to be violated in instances such as rape and domestic violence. Is it so hard for some men to keep their “goodies” intact and respect the dignity of a woman? It’s even more disheartening when a man rapes his offspring! I only would hope that the penalty of these sexual offences could be through castration similarly to bulls. If only those who are so heartless could just think for a minute about the trauma they are causing the women they rape! During these sexual harassments, women may get pregnant or even contract sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Domestic violence is at its prevalence against women. I believe that the moment a man raises his hand to hit a woman, then automatically he ceases to be a man and becomes a “boy”. Men should avoid beating up their women and instead treat them like the queens they are. This automatically affects the relationship positively in that a woman also gives the man the respect he deserves and conducts her duties without being forced to perform them.

Women also face under-representation in political life. I have heard many women speak of gender equality and to be honest, I like the way they base their ideas. However, I have a problem with some of them because they tend to behave in a manner that is not desirable. If they argue on gender equity, then they must go through what the men go through in order to reach their peaks instead of insisting that seats be left vacant specifically for women. When will they ever know about the struggles in the real world?  If women want to gain more positions in The National Assembly for instance, they should prove their worth to the public.

Lastly, I would love to acknowledge some of the women who have done so much for other women and the country at large. I start with the late Wangari Maathai who beyond all odds, helped in the Conservation of the Karura forest through the Greenbelt Movement. It is clear what she saw while seated, most of us could not see it while standing. The other is the First Lady Margaret Kenyatta who through her Beyond Zero Campaign, has raised funds both in Kenya and around the world to aid in the health problems of women and children around the country. Not to forget our mothers, our hearts are filled with gratitude from A-Z.