Our history on the continent for a long while was written by hostile foreigners to this land who were not true to their stories – well, not true to the African. When I was a little girl I would hear my then president, the first one of Kenya, repeat a slogan regarding our country – that when the white men of the British Empire came to our country, they found us with much land. They of course came without land, but they had 2 tools, their guns and the Bible. These men taught us how to (1) revere and fear the gun as a tool of death, and (2) how to close our eyes and pray.  However, when we opened our eyes after prayers, we saw that before us we had a Bible, but we had lost our lands and ways of life, while the white men had gained our lands.

We also have an African proverb that laments thusly - that "until the Lionness tells her story, the accepted and known tale shall always be that of the Hunter."

This is why I call myself an Afristorian and I ask both men and particularly wombmen begin to speak out regarding their HerStories and Shestories.


©The Maaitu Podcast Show, January 2022