Perhaps
you know that on November 9, 1989, the communist regime of East
Germany allowed its citizens, for the first time since 1961, to cross
over to West Germany.
On this day, jubilation reigned in the world as Germany ushered in
the demise of Europe’s communist regimes when millions of ordinary
Germans brought down the Berlin Wall, a literal 12-feet high concrete
slab installation separating the East from West Germany through the
heart of Berlin.
It must have fallen with a deafening thud.
To a postmodern especiallly one enscapsulated in democracy rhetoric,
the end of the Cold War narrative easily passes as quaint. But there
is alot in anthropology, politics, diplomacy, and economics that the
world can learn from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
And every indication points at a world at different levels of learning from the fall of the Wall.
25 years later, aljazeera.com reported that Palestinian
youths hammered down parts of ‘arphatheid wall,’ a barrier separating
Palestine from Israel. In the same year, Julian Assange, an Australian
hackitivist famed for accessing and publishing confidential
information on states, corporations and individuals, and the founder of
Wikileaks is on the run Ecuador.
What a small world!
In The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman links globalization
to the end of extremism in Germany. That East Germans could easily
interact with West Germans and indeed the rest of the world was an
important milestone in the turning the world into a global village, in
the words of Marshall McLuhan.
Thanks to globalization such ideals as democracy have permeated the
world. With the 2010 Constitution, Kenyans are empowered to play an
active role in government through voting, as well as participating in
deliberating on national and county governments’ development
initiatives.
It is unfathonable that some leaders are hestitant to rollout civic
education programs, or at least invite their electorates to deliberate
on development projects. Those who attempt opt for miniscule adverts on
dailies whose circulation among the people is wanting.
Communication is an important cog in globalization. Until the world
comes together, its inhabitants will remain underdeveloped. This is
what a section of Italians hurling racially derogatory remarks on black
minister Cecile Kyenge, and those placing embargoes on others, for
instance, fail to aknowledge.
With embargoes, what easily comes to mind is the barrage of
conditions that an applicant must brave meet to acquire a visa to, say,
the United Kingdom. Or the kneejerk travel advisories Kenya places on
Whites perhaps to retaliate on the embarrassment that is Western
governments advising their citizens on their safety in the country in
the wake of terrorism. This is not all.
Protectionism is rife at the counties. Despite clear provisions in
the law that counties should have the face of the nation in their
workforces, they have become tribal turfs. Not so long ago, a
politician was reported in the mainstream media intimating of a plan to
impose heavier levies to ‘outsiders’ who seek healthcare services in
his county. That Kenyans could troop to social media the other day and
chastise South Sudan for announcing an intention to evict foreigners
from plum positions in the newest state in Africa is the height of
mendacity.
It should be noted that the Berlin Wall came up as a way to contain
brain drain. Just like most Third World countries, East Germany should
have known that to mitigate against brain drain, creating opportunities
at home is inevitable. Globalization serves this truism with utter
notoriety.
Counties are linking up to the world to benefit from business
process outsourcing. India would not have been an industrial giant
today had it had not found a way of working with the West, and
empowering its populace.
Similarly, county governments should find ways of creating
opportunities at home. But this does not mean competing on who acquires
more ambulances and bribing MCAs by paying for their benchmarking
trips in far-flung lands.
While at it, effective communication should characterize the
interaction between leaders, their subjects, and the causes they are
pursuing. The reason United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) extols communication is that it’s a precursor to freedom, and an
ingredient to sustainable development.
Attempts by governments to distance themselves from accountability
by embracing opaque and propadandist top-down approaches to
communication fly in the face of the new world order. Gobbling county
resources by installing county radio stations in the wake of social
media is not only unfortunate but also laughable.
Youths who used hammers and bare hands to bring down Berlin Wall had
no idea that in 2011 their counterparts in the Middle East would turn
to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to topple despots.
Leaders shunning use of interactive media must be students of the
communist regime in China. When in this year authorities in Hong Kong
added Instagram to the list of social media tools the masses could not
access, the expectation was that marauding youths were to be cowed.
Instead the “Umbrella Revolution” went on and on.
What distills from the recent development in China is plain; leaders
and subjects cannot continue staying on different sides of information
and ideological walls.
By communicating at the same level as Wanjiku, county and
national governments can effectively tame tribal and religious bigotry
among the masses. If this happens, Kenyan Somalis would stop referring
to the area beyond what was until recently North Eastern Province as
“the other Kenya”.
Do we now understand why community policing in Turkana, Pokot, Tana
River, and Lamu has failed to bear fruit 25 years later after the fall
of the Berlin Wall?
- See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/lessons-fall-berlin-wall#sthash.9tAzDIdv.dpuf
Perhaps you know that on November 9, 1989,
the communist regime of East Germany allowed its citizens, for the first time
since 1961, to cross over to West Germany.
On this day, jubilation reined the world as
Germany ushered in the demise of Europe’s communist regimes when millions of
ordinary Germans brought down the Berlin Wall, a literal 12-feet high concrete
slab installation separating East from West Germany through the heart of
Berlin.
It must have fallen with a deafening thud.
To a postmodern especially one encapsulated in democracy rhetoric, the end of Cold War narrative easily
passes as quaint. But there is a lot in anthropology, politics, diplomacy, and
economics that the world can learn from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
And every indication points at a world at
different levels of learning from the fall of the Wall.
Today, 25 years later, aljazeera.com reported that Palestinian youths hammered down parts
of ‘apartheid wall,’ a barrier separating Palestine from Israel. In the same year, Julian Assange, an
Australian hackitivist famed for accessing and publishing confidential
information on states, corporations and individuals, and the founder of
Wikileaks is on the run Ecuador.
What a small world!
In The
World is Flat, Thomas Friedman links globalization to the end of extremism
in Germany. That East Germans could easily interact with West Germans and
indeed the rest of the world was an important milestone in the turning the world
into a global village, in the words of Marshall McLuhan.
Thanks to globalization such ideals as
democracy have permeated the world. With the 2010 Constitution, Kenyans are
empowered to play an active role in government through voting, as well as
participating in deliberating on national and county government development
initiatives.
It is unfathomable that some leaders are hesitant to roll out civic education programs, or at least invite their
electorates to deliberate on development projects. Those who attempt opt for
miniscule adverts on dailies whose circulation among the people is wanting.
Communication is an important cog in
globalization. Until the world comes together, its inhabitants will remain
underdeveloped. This is what a section of Italians hurling racially derogatory
remarks on black minister Cecile Kyenge, and those placing embargoes on others,
for instance, fail to acknowledge.
With embargoes, what easily comes to mind
is the barrage of conditions that an applicant must brave to acquire visa to,
say, the United Kingdom. Or the knee jerk travel advisories Kenya places on
Whites perhaps to retaliate on the embarrassment that is Western governments
advising their citizens on their safety in the country in the wake of
terrorism. This is not all.
Protectionism is rife at the counties.
Despite clear provisions in the law that counties should have the face of the
nation in their workforces, they have become tribal turfs. Not so long ago, a
politician was reported in the mainstream media intimating of a plan to impose
heavier levies to ‘outsiders’ who seek healthcare services in his county.
That
Kenyans could troop to social media the other day and chastise South Sudan for announcing
an intention to evict foreigners from plum positions in the newest state in
Africa is the height of mendacity.
It should be noted that the Berlin Wall
came up as a way to contain brain drain. Just like most Third World countries,
East Germany should have known that to go round brain drain creating
opportunities at home is inevitable. Globalization serves
this truism with utter notoriety.
Countries are linking up to the world to
benefit from business process outsourcing. India would not have been an
industrial giant today were it had not found a way of working with the West,
and empowering its populace.
Similarly, county governments should find
ways of creating opportunities at home. But this does not mean competing on who
acquires more ambulances and bribing MCAs by paying for their benchmarking
trips in far-flung lands.
While at it, effective communication should
characterize the interaction between leaders, their subjects, and the causes
they are pursuing. The reason United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) extols communication is that it’s a precursor to freedom, and an
ingredient to sustainable development.
Attempts by governments to distance
themselves from accountability by embracing opaque and propagandist top-down
approaches to communication fly in the face of the new world order. Gobbling
county resources by installing county radio stations in the wake of social
media is not only unfortunate but also laughable.
Youths who used hammers and bear hands to
bring down Berlin Wall had no idea that in 2011 their counterparts in the Middle
East would turn to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to topple despots.
Leaders shunning to use interactive media must
be students of the communist regime in China. When in this year authorities in
Hong Kong added Instagram to the list of social media tools the masses could
not access, the expectation was that marauding youths were to be cowed. Instead
the “Umbrella Revolution” went on and on.
What distills from the recent development
in China is plain:
Leaders and subjects cannot continue
staying on different sides of information and ideological walls.
By communicating at the same level as Wanjiku, county and national governments
can effectively tame tribal and religious bigotry among the masses.
If this
happens, Kenyan Somalis would stop referring to the area beyond what was until
recently NorthEastern Province as the other Kenya.
Do we now understand why community policing
in Turkana, Pokot, Tana River, and Lamu has failed to bear fruit 25 years later
after the fall of the Berlin Wall?
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/lessons-fall-berlin-wall
Perhaps
you know that on November 9, 1989, the communist regime of East
Germany allowed its citizens, for the first time since 1961, to cross
over to West Germany.
On this day, jubilation reigned in the world as Germany ushered in
the demise of Europe’s communist regimes when millions of ordinary
Germans brought down the Berlin Wall, a literal 12-feet high concrete
slab installation separating the East from West Germany through the
heart of Berlin.
It must have fallen with a deafening thud.
To a postmodern especiallly one enscapsulated in democracy rhetoric,
the end of the Cold War narrative easily passes as quaint. But there
is alot in anthropology, politics, diplomacy, and economics that the
world can learn from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
And every indication points at a world at different levels of learning from the fall of the Wall.
25 years later, aljazeera.com reported that Palestinian
youths hammered down parts of ‘arphatheid wall,’ a barrier separating
Palestine from Israel. In the same year, Julian Assange, an Australian
hackitivist famed for accessing and publishing confidential
information on states, corporations and individuals, and the founder of
Wikileaks is on the run Ecuador.
What a small world!
In The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman links globalization
to the end of extremism in Germany. That East Germans could easily
interact with West Germans and indeed the rest of the world was an
important milestone in the turning the world into a global village, in
the words of Marshall McLuhan.
Thanks to globalization such ideals as democracy have permeated the
world. With the 2010 Constitution, Kenyans are empowered to play an
active role in government through voting, as well as participating in
deliberating on national and county governments’ development
initiatives.
It is unfathonable that some leaders are hestitant to rollout civic
education programs, or at least invite their electorates to deliberate
on development projects. Those who attempt opt for miniscule adverts on
dailies whose circulation among the people is wanting.
Communication is an important cog in globalization. Until the world
comes together, its inhabitants will remain underdeveloped. This is
what a section of Italians hurling racially derogatory remarks on black
minister Cecile Kyenge, and those placing embargoes on others, for
instance, fail to aknowledge.
With embargoes, what easily comes to mind is the barrage of
conditions that an applicant must brave meet to acquire a visa to, say,
the United Kingdom. Or the kneejerk travel advisories Kenya places on
Whites perhaps to retaliate on the embarrassment that is Western
governments advising their citizens on their safety in the country in
the wake of terrorism. This is not all.
Protectionism is rife at the counties. Despite clear provisions in
the law that counties should have the face of the nation in their
workforces, they have become tribal turfs. Not so long ago, a
politician was reported in the mainstream media intimating of a plan to
impose heavier levies to ‘outsiders’ who seek healthcare services in
his county. That Kenyans could troop to social media the other day and
chastise South Sudan for announcing an intention to evict foreigners
from plum positions in the newest state in Africa is the height of
mendacity.
It should be noted that the Berlin Wall came up as a way to contain
brain drain. Just like most Third World countries, East Germany should
have known that to mitigate against brain drain, creating opportunities
at home is inevitable. Globalization serves this truism with utter
notoriety.
Counties are linking up to the world to benefit from business
process outsourcing. India would not have been an industrial giant
today had it had not found a way of working with the West, and
empowering its populace.
Similarly, county governments should find ways of creating
opportunities at home. But this does not mean competing on who acquires
more ambulances and bribing MCAs by paying for their benchmarking
trips in far-flung lands.
While at it, effective communication should characterize the
interaction between leaders, their subjects, and the causes they are
pursuing. The reason United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) extols communication is that it’s a precursor to freedom, and an
ingredient to sustainable development.
Attempts by governments to distance themselves from accountability
by embracing opaque and propadandist top-down approaches to
communication fly in the face of the new world order. Gobbling county
resources by installing county radio stations in the wake of social
media is not only unfortunate but also laughable.
Youths who used hammers and bare hands to bring down Berlin Wall had
no idea that in 2011 their counterparts in the Middle East would turn
to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to topple despots.
Leaders shunning use of interactive media must be students of the
communist regime in China. When in this year authorities in Hong Kong
added Instagram to the list of social media tools the masses could not
access, the expectation was that marauding youths were to be cowed.
Instead the “Umbrella Revolution” went on and on.
What distills from the recent development in China is plain; leaders
and subjects cannot continue staying on different sides of information
and ideological walls.
By communicating at the same level as Wanjiku, county and
national governments can effectively tame tribal and religious bigotry
among the masses. If this happens, Kenyan Somalis would stop referring
to the area beyond what was until recently North Eastern Province as
“the other Kenya”.
Do we now understand why community policing in Turkana, Pokot, Tana
River, and Lamu has failed to bear fruit 25 years later after the fall
of the Berlin Wall?
- See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/lessons-fall-berlin-wall#sthash.9tAzDIdv.dpuf
Perhaps
you know that on November 9, 1989, the communist regime of East
Germany allowed its citizens, for the first time since 1961, to cross
over to West Germany.
On this day, jubilation reigned in the world as Germany ushered in
the demise of Europe’s communist regimes when millions of ordinary
Germans brought down the Berlin Wall, a literal 12-feet high concrete
slab installation separating the East from West Germany through the
heart of Berlin.
It must have fallen with a deafening thud.
To a postmodern especiallly one enscapsulated in democracy rhetoric,
the end of the Cold War narrative easily passes as quaint. But there
is alot in anthropology, politics, diplomacy, and economics that the
world can learn from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
And every indication points at a world at different levels of learning from the fall of the Wall.
25 years later, aljazeera.com reported that Palestinian
youths hammered down parts of ‘arphatheid wall,’ a barrier separating
Palestine from Israel. In the same year, Julian Assange, an Australian
hackitivist famed for accessing and publishing confidential
information on states, corporations and individuals, and the founder of
Wikileaks is on the run Ecuador.
What a small world!
In The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman links globalization
to the end of extremism in Germany. That East Germans could easily
interact with West Germans and indeed the rest of the world was an
important milestone in the turning the world into a global village, in
the words of Marshall McLuhan.
Thanks to globalization such ideals as democracy have permeated the
world. With the 2010 Constitution, Kenyans are empowered to play an
active role in government through voting, as well as participating in
deliberating on national and county governments’ development
initiatives.
It is unfathonable that some leaders are hestitant to rollout civic
education programs, or at least invite their electorates to deliberate
on development projects. Those who attempt opt for miniscule adverts on
dailies whose circulation among the people is wanting.
Communication is an important cog in globalization. Until the world
comes together, its inhabitants will remain underdeveloped. This is
what a section of Italians hurling racially derogatory remarks on black
minister Cecile Kyenge, and those placing embargoes on others, for
instance, fail to aknowledge.
With embargoes, what easily comes to mind is the barrage of
conditions that an applicant must brave meet to acquire a visa to, say,
the United Kingdom. Or the kneejerk travel advisories Kenya places on
Whites perhaps to retaliate on the embarrassment that is Western
governments advising their citizens on their safety in the country in
the wake of terrorism. This is not all.
Protectionism is rife at the counties. Despite clear provisions in
the law that counties should have the face of the nation in their
workforces, they have become tribal turfs. Not so long ago, a
politician was reported in the mainstream media intimating of a plan to
impose heavier levies to ‘outsiders’ who seek healthcare services in
his county. That Kenyans could troop to social media the other day and
chastise South Sudan for announcing an intention to evict foreigners
from plum positions in the newest state in Africa is the height of
mendacity.
It should be noted that the Berlin Wall came up as a way to contain
brain drain. Just like most Third World countries, East Germany should
have known that to mitigate against brain drain, creating opportunities
at home is inevitable. Globalization serves this truism with utter
notoriety.
Counties are linking up to the world to benefit from business
process outsourcing. India would not have been an industrial giant
today had it had not found a way of working with the West, and
empowering its populace.
Similarly, county governments should find ways of creating
opportunities at home. But this does not mean competing on who acquires
more ambulances and bribing MCAs by paying for their benchmarking
trips in far-flung lands.
While at it, effective communication should characterize the
interaction between leaders, their subjects, and the causes they are
pursuing. The reason United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) extols communication is that it’s a precursor to freedom, and an
ingredient to sustainable development.
Attempts by governments to distance themselves from accountability
by embracing opaque and propadandist top-down approaches to
communication fly in the face of the new world order. Gobbling county
resources by installing county radio stations in the wake of social
media is not only unfortunate but also laughable.
Youths who used hammers and bare hands to bring down Berlin Wall had
no idea that in 2011 their counterparts in the Middle East would turn
to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to topple despots.
Leaders shunning use of interactive media must be students of the
communist regime in China. When in this year authorities in Hong Kong
added Instagram to the list of social media tools the masses could not
access, the expectation was that marauding youths were to be cowed.
Instead the “Umbrella Revolution” went on and on.
What distills from the recent development in China is plain; leaders
and subjects cannot continue staying on different sides of information
and ideological walls.
By communicating at the same level as Wanjiku, county and
national governments can effectively tame tribal and religious bigotry
among the masses. If this happens, Kenyan Somalis would stop referring
to the area beyond what was until recently North Eastern Province as
“the other Kenya”.
Do we now understand why community policing in Turkana, Pokot, Tana
River, and Lamu has failed to bear fruit 25 years later after the fall
of the Berlin Wall?
- See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/lessons-fall-berlin-wall#sthash.9tAzDIdv.dpuf
