We are just Poor Dreamers

The final verdict is Kenyans’ dreams are too boring. And it will take spiritual intervention to rescue them from wallowing longer in this miasma of ‘tasteless’ dreams.
From our top, middle to bottom leaders, old and young, sick and healthy, learned and illiterate, their future life is around visions too blurred and will take several millenniums to make them clear.

Musicians
Our so-called artists lead this pack. The hugely over-publicised men and women of the voice have never had dreams beyond their one-step boundary. Their music, for secular artists, borders only around western love, money, fame and bling bling, and others keroro. Others who have tried to wade differently have not gone so far. They have either been consumed by immorality or embroiled in beefs and Dismissals and its cousins (dis...).
For gospel singers, it’s about how fast they can emulate their secular counterparts; the only difference is that their stock-in-trade is warped songs, meant to offer spiritual nourishment but which fail terribly in this duty.

MPs
They don’t often dream. Fortunately they try to when raising their salaries in parliament, thumps up for them for frequently succeeding in this pseudo-dream- Someone may wonder where their idle minds roam to when they are taking quick naps in the House during important occasions as Budget Reading.

Voters
They dream alongside their dreamless politicians. So when an Mp dreams of repairing a road, for instance, in two years, they will dream along into the fifth year and vote him back without fuss.

University Students
They dream a lot. How to get luxurious jobos, when to oust Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph, how to land a job with leading corporate institutions comprise their dreams. They are good dreams, aren’t they?
However, a lapse in these castles built in the air lies in their oblivion of the damage caused their wishful thinking by their stoning of cars, destroying buildings- including their classrooms, incessant chanting of comrade’s power! These actions, often not sweet music to GSU, have led to some of them being clobbered to wheelchairs or to the world of the blind, raise eyebrows among employers. The hundreds of jobless graduates speak well of the twisted dreams.

When you are not busy please try to think of ways we can dream better. All the best! I will too.


By the way...
*Media Houses seem not to have learnt enough lessons from the recent post-election violence. If they had, they wouldn’t show clear preferences for either of the sides campaigning for or against the proposed constitution. I wish they paid more attention to fair and balanced reporting.
*The ukweli-meter is the most daring move to confront chameleon-like politicians in Kenya, though it’s more like a copy from CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Anyway it’s a good way to mum opponents. I would have preferred if they distanced themselves from politicians to avoid soiling this creative design. That would have enhanced their fairness!