Party Oligarchies:

The Invisible party oligarchies in African Democracies: The case of Uganda

Abstract

The proverbial voter apathy in African “Democracies” can never surpass the attention of an ardent observer of African political cycles. A keen observer of African government regimes must have noted at one point or another disgusting manifestations of a rule by the irresponsible multitudes in the name of Democracies. Occurrences across the globe have indeed proved beyond doubt that Democracies are not only governments founded on mob-psychology but also a mere organization of opinion and propaganda which hides from the people their deficiencies and lures them into a false sense of equality. In the book “Money, Power and Politics”, Bryce would probably have included the Corruption dilemma in Kenya as one of the abuses of democracy as it is evident that bureaucracies in democracies are indeed an avenue for illicit gain and undue extravagance. However, it is not prudent to dwell on the known evils of democracy. This article examines Party politics in Africa, using a demonstrative case of Uganda. The case of Uganda as far as this subject is concerned is transferable to Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and South Africa just to name a few states. This article points to the harsh reality of Oligarchic Governments masked behind the veil of `ideal` Democracies through Political Parties.

In the paper(Upcoming)- Find out a critical analysis of National Resistance Movement(NRM-Uganda), African National Congress(ANC-S.Africa),Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM-Tanzania) , Rwandan Patriotic Front and Kenyas (KANU& TNA ) .

The Feminist War On Women

By

Lisette Muntslag

“The most awful thing that can happen to a person, is being uprooted from their natural habitat and considered less than an animal in a strange land.”

Feminists cry war on women. They advocate sex without responsibility. Anything and everything goes. If it feels good do it, if something goes wrong blame it on men? Under the guise of “a woman’s right to choose” feminists justify the killing of the unborn as a human right. Feminists demand equality for LGBT’s but government dependency for women with children. Feminists want to be free from oppression but they engage in the oppression of others.

I ran away from the social welfare system of Amsterdam, the Netherlands that had hijacked my life. I left without my daughter because I didn’t want to expose her to the uncertainty. After four years of living in the shadows in New York City, I was introduced to this ugly reality when I turned to Amsterdam. During my New York stint I was able to make my own decisions, be self-reliant and function normally. For the sake of my daughter, I decided to return but I ended right back in cruel clutches of this system of dependency. A bunch of tormenters employed by the government again tried to dictate my life. This time, I came up-close and personal with women who despised women with children.

Making my own decisions was out of the question, I had to be re-educated on how things worked in the Netherlands. That’s when I became aware that the “single women with children had to be in the kitchen” dependent on the government from the cradle to the grave was the milestone of Dutch feminism. I had already debunked the false notion that I was incapable of living my life without being dependent on the welfare system. Women from Suriname in the Netherlands, accepted this oppression and social exclusion as normal but to me it was not. Things began to unravel slowly but surely because I defied the authority these women who tried to dictate my life. My defiance resistance to this oppression turned me into persona-non-grata.

When I complaint about the abuse the city Ombudsman, Jewish feminist and member of the Dutch labor Party (PVDA) asserted that, “women in my position had no choice, I had to put up, shut up, accept my condition and be thankful that I had enough to eat, no other government in the world took such good care of people.” Feminist Hedy D’Ancona who was Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport for the same party ignored my complaint and did nothing. PVDA Minister of Interior Ien Dales , forwarded my complaint to Hugo Fernandes Mendes the director of “minority affairs” at that, but who again didn’t do a thing. They all belonged to the same party and call themselves Social Democrats.

Hell broke loose when I filed a sexual harassment complaint against a male feminist was covered up and exposed the hypocrisy of the female feminists.  They took the lead to intimidate and prevent me from taking this misconduct and violence against my person to the public. According to them “I didn’t have the right to jeopardize their financial interest, and nobody would believe a Surinamese woman like me, my life would never be safe if I appeared on national television  .” Like the said I had to put-up and shut-up. 

A couple of years later Angela Davis was invited to Amsterdam. I attended two of the meetings to listen to the black feminist perspective on women’s issues. When the women’s organizations representatives in attendance were asked about the position of women in the Netherlands, I was expecting to hear from the experts but the only thing that came out of their mouth was, “we want to attend the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing but we don’t have the money.” Their silence about the condition of women in the Netherlands was very telling.

In the Netherlands, Philomena Essed who wrote Everyday Racism and  Gloria Wekker whose Politics of Passion in which she glorifies lesbianism as part of Afro-Surinamese culture, perpetuating the age old stereotype of women of African descent in the diaspora as one-dimensional brainless creatures and published by Columbia University press, are considered experts on women’s issues. Like Angela Davies these two experts share the same political ideology as their white counter parts, which influences government policy and wreaks havoc on the lives of other women who are not feminist.

Since I very busy in the private sector, I really missed what was happening in women’s movement in the United States the first time I was in exile. When I came back to New York in 1999, however, I began paying attention what was governing the land of the free and home of the brave. The incestuous and elitist atmosphere at the events I, attended during the U.N. "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century" in New York City, made me very uncomfortable. I didn’t know what to make of it but soon after I applied for political asylum I began to detect things that were familiar. It was a very nerve wrecking time but I couldn’t turn back the clock.

When Pim Fortuyn broke the conspiracy of silence and challenged the multicultural apartheid and radicalization of Muslims in the Netherlands, he automatically put those women in the spotlight….the Social Democrats and feminist cadre immediately went into damage control mode. They used Hirsi Ali as their poster child to look good and discredit Pim Fortuyn, who in essence challenged the liberal establishment for using the welfare system as a means to enslave women with children. Calling Pim Fortuyn, a racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, right-wing extremist, fascist, Dutch Hitler and danger to minorities was very disturbing as I watched the drama unfold from a distance. But this article The liberal as oppressor and victim by Dutch author Bart Croughs enabled me to get a grasp on this dynamic that I was still trying to understand.

“The liberals play different roles at the same time. Some only play the role of victim: a black lesbian woman in a wheelchair for instance is a fourfold victim. Others only play the role of oppressor: a healthy white heterosexual male is a fourfold oppressor. Many liberals play both roles. A white woman for instance: as a woman she plays the role of victim, and as a white she plays the role of oppressor. Here we see two souls living in the same chest.” “There are also people who don't wish to play their predetermined role: they refuse to play the game. The man who is predetermined to play the role of oppressor, but refuses to play his part, is banned from the intellectual community. He is called 'reactionary' or 'fascist'.” “For instance: a white homosexual man who as a homosexual plays the role of victim, but refuses as a white male to play the role of oppressor. He is half good, half reactionary. The liberal gets very confused by this kind of person: they don't fit into his system.” “But the liberal gets really scared by the people who are predetermined to play the role of victim, but bluntly refuse to do so.”

Pim Fortuyn was assassinated in the Netherlands on May 6, 2002 because of his political opinion and 6 months later my appeal for asylum in the United States was sabotaged for the same reason. He challenged the oppression of minority women in the Netherlands and I applied for political asylum in the United States to be free from that oppression. Christina Hoff-Sommers Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women, gave me insight into the women’s movement in the United States….very creepy. The 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C. brought me face-to-face with the extremism of women in the US. The hatred for women with children was on full display….protesters told me to my face that they didn’t want to be run over by women with children. “There were no violent incidents, despite the Washington Post's Hank Steuver referring to it as "aggressive and even occasionally, almost delightfully, profane."

This 2005 New York Times article, was a continuation of the damage control after the unconscionable betrayal of Pim Fortuyn. The article glorifies Hirsi Ali who became a Dutch citizen by asylum fraud because of the special rights the sexual organ obsessed feminists put place for their favorite “victim” group….if this “Migrants from the former Dutch colony of Suriname were the problem immigrants of the 1970's, with high crime levels. Now they are classed among the success stories of Dutch immigration”, was true I would not be running away from the party, come to the United State and suffer the same indignities. Hirsi Ali who became a Dutch citizen by fraud had more legal protection in the Netherlands than I did thanks to the Social Democrats and the feminist cadre. She received her green card in a private ceremony months after Department of Homeland Security (USCIS) declared me to be a fugitive from the law who was evading sentencing. She became a U.S. citizen a week after (ICE) New York, threatened me with deportation. Confirming once again that in liberal democracy some lives are worth more than others and that freedom and liberty is only for some.

The Western world enabled Feminism to flourish into a corrupt and murderous cult, only interested in power and privileges for some women at the expense of others.

*The United Nations declared the Netherlands the number one country for gender equality in Europe.

* Hillary Clinton called “equal rights for women and girls the “great unfinished business of the 21st century.”  Who are the women and girls she is talking about? In the United States Hillary Clinton is considered the number one person to step up and advocate for the expansion of the unsustainable European style welfare state as explained in Uncle Sam’s Plantation by Star Parker that is already enslaving black women with children. In The Decline of Males, Lionel Tiger, posits the troubling paradigm which he labels “bureaugamy. A new trinity: a woman, a child, and a bureaucrat.”

As a mother of a beautiful daughter I am pro-family, in honor of the woman who brought me into this world. Since feminism doesn’t have my human dignity and well-being at heart, I should not be forced to pledge allegiance to this foreign and deviant agent of death and destruction. The slogan women’s right are human rights, is a hype to disguise the dictatorial women who pose as liberators of women while advocating everything that is adverse and detrimental to women who are not feminist.

Economic exploitation, oppression and enslavement through to the might of the government is the feminist war on women….!

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Contribution From My Readers: Gender Feminism Defined by Lisette Muntslag

"We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The origin of feminism can be traced back to the social changes in England and America in the 1800’s. Women who joined the first wave of feminism sought equal treatment and opportunity—to be recognized as human beings—not as property. In addition to seeking the vote, they campaigned against prostitution, child labor and the exploitation of the poor. This developing movement also contained a radical element that did not share a devotion to biblical principles. Feminists, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, saw the Bible and Christianity as the real cause of women's oppression. Despite the early support of African American men such as Fredrick Douglass, suffragists like Stanton could not stomach the idea that black men might get the right to vote ahead of white women.

Stanton didn’t hesitate to voice her opinion that white women were superior to black men, and thus more deserving of the vote. “….the white women who led this movement came to trade upon their privilege as thedaughters (sisters, wives, and mothers) of powerful white men in order to gain for themselves some share of the political power those men possessed. They did not adequately identify ways in which that political power would not be accessible to poor women, immigrant women, and black women.” Yet despite the blatant racism and class bias of the women’s suffrage movement, black women, discouraged and betrayed, continued to work for their right to vote, both as blacks and as women, through their own suffrage organizations.”

The theories that white women were both the same as and different than white men opened up new social and political roles for white women as “civilizers” of the race, strengthening longstanding beliefs in (white) women’s moral superiority. The effort to establish the United States as an empire, both domestically and abroad, fundamentally influenced the direction and content of white feminist thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These twisted views marginalized the radicals from the women's movement—but their ideas did not die.

"Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice." -- Ti-Grace Atkinson

The 1960s spawned the second wave of feminism and a return to radical ideas—that targeted marriage and the traditional family. Women were told that domestic roles were inferior and restrictive; raising children was domestic oppression. Betty Friedan, a former revolutionary-turned housewife, beckoned women to a brave new world outside the home. Her message found a receptive audience in a generation infatuated with freedom and discarding traditional values.

“The nuclear family must be destroyed….Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.” — Linda Gordon

Besides gender, white women also used the concept of ‘race and racism’as the weapon of choice to wage a more potent and successful ideological war against their societies. In 1969, Gloria Steinempublished an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation," which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader: "Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!" Gloria Steinem. Bringing the “black power”women into the plot the radical feminists could eliminate some opposition and achieve their goals.

“Right at the start, it is important to realize that both terms “race” and “racism” are social designations with no factual bases. Genetically, humanity is from one common gene pool. Respect for the inherent dignity and well-being of each member of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. This important principle is enshrined in the United Nations Charter(1945), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights(1948), inspired by the Constitution of the United States. “Psychologically, the practice of grouping people and ascribing its members with certain attributes is a form of generalization.”

By applying generalization, the person/radical feminist/ Marxist, liberal progressive dictator avoids the tedious and practically impossible task of treating each person individually. “Racism is the misuse of generalization that some human groups employ to their advantage, even with the full knowledge of its unjust and EVIL nature.” The Radical Feminist cabal wants me to believe that this trait is typical of the “White Christian Male.” The widely accepted buzz words are racist, poor,  black people hating, conservative, right-wing extremist, fascist or Nazi.

Searching for the truth led to amazing discoveries about this fraud perpetrated against humanity and taught me that your enemy is the one who asserts moral superiority by constantly telling you who your enemy is.

As Catharine A. MacKinnon prominent legal feminist scholar,University of Michigan, & Yale, said: “Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.”

Marxism gave birth to the sinister collection of –isms that are now wreaking havoc on society and innocent human life worldwide. Radical gender feminism is pitting women against men at the detriment of women. The demands for equality and stop the violence against women campaigns arefocused on ‘white males’ as the main perpetrators of violence against women, while the obvious and insidious psychological violence against women and men by this perverted and tyrannical ideology is ignored….who is Hillary Clinton talking about when she say’s “Women Rights Are Human Rights”?....she is talking about white women because feminism is about the rights of, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton said ‘the superior sex’….white women! 

The media propaganda wants the unsuspecting public to accept today’s “feminism” as some moral and harmless women’s movement but "The totalitarian mind can reappear in some new and unexpected and seemingly innocuous and indeed virtuous form. [¶]... [I]t ... will [probably] put itself forward under the cover of a generous doctrine, humanitarian, inspired by a concern for giving the disadvantaged their fair share.” Jean Francois Revel, Democracy Against Itself (The Free Press 1993) pp. 250-251.

When we understand the demonic influence behind radical feminism, it is not surprising why the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing (which promoted abortion, prostitution, child sex and pagan goddess worship) has been called" the most radical atheistic, anti-family crusade in the history of the world" (O'Leary, p. 173).

The above takes us into the mindset of radical feminists, since they are blatant in their extremism and quest for power nobody can claim “ wir haben es nicht gewusst”….we didn’t know about these  holier than thou predators of the “poor anddisadvantaged”….liberal progressive, double talking, racist anti-racist, equality demanding, thought policing, multicultural apartheid advocating, poverty pimping, race-hustling, dictatorial, charlatans posing as liberators…..

Notes:

·        Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw the bible and Christianity as the real cause of (white) women’s oppression?

·        She didn’t like the idea that“black men” would get the right to vote in advance of white women?

·        White women are the civilizers of their race and therefore ‘morally superior’ to all.

·        In their quest for power and more privileges white feminist wage an ideological war against the ‘powerful men’ who are in fact their sons, brothers, husbands, Fathers.

·        Gender Feminism reduced men and women to a penis and vagina in name of political ideology.

·        Both men and women are equal because human dignity knows no gender, but the collectivist nature of feminism does not respect the inherent dignity of the individual.

(Kindly Note This is unedited response from Lisette- I am soliciting your opinion. Find out more about lisset on https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisettem)

Laikipia County: The Dry "Oasis of Opportunities"

Introduction to politics in the Treeless Plateau

A diligent  investigation into history leaves a lot to be discerned about Laikipia County. The halcyon days when colonialists grabbed the white highlands of which a part of Laikipia belonged , the days when streams still flowed with heavenly serenity from the summit of the glorious Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares , days when African Jumbos roamed the jungle freely and the days when the maimed party, K.A.NU was a big hit in the Rift Valley.Poverty is part of our history; children went to school barefooted, patients waited outside Nanyuki District Hospital in long ques, farmers toiled so hard but couldn`t get their products to the markets because the roads were all dirt, and of course, the interior places were  inhabited by rural folk constrained by its low literacy level.Big chunks of land belonged to government bureaucrats, ranchers and Private investors who were majorly remnants of colonial inhabitants. This piece of work seeks to evaluate the changes between the old Laikipia and the new Laikipia under the Administration of Joshua Irungu. In it, you will find an analysis of the political, social and economic development as regards to the "Treeless Plateau" as the original inhabitants ,the Maasai called it. 

Politics in the tree-less Plateau

Parseleo Kantai, an investigative jouranlist from London and author of "In the Grip of the Vampire State: Maasai Land Struggles in Kenyan Politics" would agree with me that Laikipia is endowed with resources that cannot be found elsewhere in Kenya.  Laikipia is basically known because of its rich diversity in tourism attractions; a gate way to Mt.Kenya through Nanyuki or Narumoru, the Abedares, the Ark, Mountain Lodge famous for housing the British Royals,the Olpejeta, borana, loisaba wilderness, Mpala and such attractions. Laikipia is also known for its high population of diverse wildlife, both flora and fauna, in the seven forests reserves among them being Mukogodo and Rumuruti. Rasna Walah, author of "Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits: an anthology" underpins Laikipia`s richness and refers to it as " a far away place of endless Savannahs and rolling Mountain ranges teeming with wildlife.."

Nanyuki Town is also a major part of Laikipia that cannot be ignored in a quest to establish what is popular in Laikipia that attracts the tourists. This town which is the seat of Government also happens to be the base for Kenya Rifles, Laikipia Airbase and most importantly, the British regiment training unit(BATUK).This makes it the most thriving business town in Laikipia. With land measuring 9462Km sq and a population of 400,000, you would definitely agree with me that Laikipia is indeed a rich County based on the extent of the resources it is endowed with.However, as we shall see, this remains a news paper headline and a statement in the countless speeches made by political elites in Laikipia.

In the book "Illusions of power: Fifty years in Kenya Politics, by G.G.Kariuki, you meet Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki, popularly known as G.G. Kariuki. This autobiography has a rich history to learn from. It teaches you how our leaders who served in Government used that opportunity to enrich themselves, to grab public resources and property and more so, how much they contributed to underdevelopment in the five decades after Independence. This auto biography presents the view of an individual looking for an avenue to exonerate himself from the jeopardy the citizens of Laikipia found themselves in. The author as shown below served as MP between 1966 and 1983 in Laikipia West during the one party system.He lost to Githae Mathenge but later rejoined politics as MP in 2002 through a NARC ticket. He is currently the Senator Laikipia County. I have compiled a few things in a table to help us understand the politics in the treeless plateau. We will look into the programs initiated during the reign of G.G.Kariuki in West and that of Mwangi Kiunjuri because they stand out as longest serving MPs in Laikipia County. 

Laikipia East Membership in Parliament.

Elections	MP	Party	Notes
1966	G. Githui Ndegwa	KANU	One-party system
1969	Tom Gichohi	KANU	One-party system
1974	G. Githui Ndegwa	KANU	One-party system
1979	Charles Ndirangu Muthura	KANU	One-party system
1983	Charles Ndirangu Muthura	KANU	One-party system
1988	Kausai Francis Xavier ole Kaparo	KANU	One-party system
1992	Charles Nderitu Mukora	DP
1997	Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri	DP
2002	Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri	NARC
2007	Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri	PNU

Laikipia West Membership in Parliament  

Elections	MP	Party	Notes
1966	Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki	KANU	One-party system
1969	Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki	KANU	One-party system
1974	Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki	KANU	One-party system
1979	Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki	KANU	One-party system
1983	Joseph Githae Mathenge	KANU	One-party system
1988	Danson Ndumia Murukia	KANU	One-party system
1992	Dixon Kihika Kimani	DP
1997	F. Chege Mbitiru	DP
2002	Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki	NARC
2007	Ndiritu Muriithi	PNU
2013	Wachira Karani	TNA

 At the apex, we will culminate in a detailed analysis of the Devolved Government of Laikipia; Its helm leadership of Wakahora Irungu and Gitonga Kabugi, the bills passed by the assembly and the place of Mwananchi in Laikipia being the largest stakeholder in the Government of the treeless plateau. This is a snapshot of the details in this piece of work ironically titled" The Oasis of Opportunities".

The Enemies of National Growth & Development

A slim tarmacked road drives you to cosmopolitan Lang`ata area. From the roadside a lot can be understood by a first time Greek visitor .That the roads divides the area into two. The rich, elegant and classy suburb on your left and the the obviously impecunious , pauperised and destitute Kibera on the right. Politics never ceases to amaze me.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.This statement holds truth as far as recent incidences in Kenya are concerned. A cocoon of illiterate, malnourished,  and brainwashed Kibera slum dwellers who sweat blood to put food on a "stool" for their families missed their breakfast and absented themselves from work to burn a public toilet constructed by National Youth Service in Kibera. For ages, flying toilets have been a bother in Kibera. Imagine walking from your house heading to work and on your way you are hit by a nylon paper that explodes on your face full of shit.Oh, did I say shit really. Dirt would have been appropriate but no , its shit.

"Baba" ( Raila Odinga) has been abused in public. Imagine somebody coming to your home and abusing your father.What would you do?", a resident of Kibera was quoted saying.I have a few questions for Kiberains;

How many times has Raila Odinga put food on your stool in Kibera?

How many times did you see him sliding on the shit that lay around in Kibera before a public toilet was build for you?

For how long will you be used and be forced to dance to a withered tune like marionette puppets because of sheer loyalty that has not improved your society for the last 25 years within which Raila could have done something about Kibera?

Don`t you know that Kibera is actually an Urban-slum tourist destination where every foreigner wants to visit and see how "good" the destination looks? With all those mud-walled houses which are actually a competition in terms of development to Maasai Manyattas, Kibera is very "attractive".This is Raila`s Legacy for you Kiberians. 

One last thing before I open the floor for your misguided judgements and uninformed comments, when did you see Raila Odinga sleeping on the floor, uprooting the railway, throwing stones to destroy peoples property and looting?He belongs to a group of elites who basically would qualify to be the cream of society. You, and I repeat you, belong hindering your own development would qualify to a better class, more "respected" in the society, the scum of the society. This is the only class  that destroys infrastructure like railways and public toilets which was built using tax payers money.

Conclusions: The sad reality is that Raila will continue dining and living prestigiously with all the luxury he can afford like a king . No not like a King, he is the King of Kibera Kingdom or should we call it Kiberadom? You will continue living like destitute children while your " father " Bwana Tinga enjoys the warmth of his bed with his sweet dreams of presidency in 2017.In the meantime, brethren, kiberians and my good friends will continue fishing the banks of Nairobi river for greens to enable them push Ugali down their throats.Thank God, the shit alongside the river bank nourishes the greens. Long live Kiberadom.Long live "Baba".

By 

Maina Munuhe.