<p dir="ltr">ADMIN.. get me out of this group.. PLEASE.. </p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 7, 2017, 11:04 AM Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Doesn't anyone find it the height of irony that we as Africans are fighting against each other on what foreign language to use? </div><div><br></div><div>Oh Mother Africa..what have we done to you? English Speakers are up in arms against French Speakers. I'd rather we fight on what African language to use:-</div><div><br></div><div>Wolof, Zulu, Xhosa, Swahili, Amharic, Yoruba, Igbo anyone? </div><div><br></div><div>We as Africans need to get very serious. Very fast. The colonization of the mind is far much worse than the colonization of the body.</div><div><br></div><div>As we famously say in Kiswahili ' Mkosa mila ni mtumwa (loosely translated it means - One who has no roots is a slave of others).<br><br><div><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><div><br>On 6 Sep 2017, at 3:25 PM, Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" target="_blank">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">French is not an African language – it is a colonial language – as is English – it was brought here during the days of colonization. But I do not see anyone here asking for Swahili or
Xhosa or Zulu or Tsonga or any of the others – yet you dare turn around and say that because I don’t speak other languages I do not have the African spirit in my heart? I am as African as you will ever be – I was born under these skies – I was bread under
these skies – and under these skies will I die – do not EVER question my loyalty to this continent or to her combined people because of the amount of melanin in my skin.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Racism works both ways my friend – and questioning someones commitment to their continent because they are unable to speak a language or because of the color of their skin – is what that
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">How dare you<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Kangamutima zabika Christophe <<a href="mailto:funga.roho@yandex.com" target="_blank">funga.roho@yandex.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 6 September 2017 at 14:00<br>
<b>To: </b>Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" target="_blank">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Community-Discuss] Community-Discuss Digest, Vol 204, Issue 1- Discriminatory remarks on the livestream of SAFNOG<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard","serif";color:black">Rassurez-vous mon cher il ne s'agissait que d'une conversation instantanée avec un modérateur d'ISOC inutile d'en faire un plat. En plus si vous pensez être doué en technique
ou informatique cela ne veut pas dire qu'en statistiques linguistiques vous l'êtes aussi parceque vous savez tapez des mot-clés sur les moteurs de recherche en ligne.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard","serif";color:black">Malheureusement, beaucoup de gens pensant comme vous vivent dans des bulles croyant que le monde ressemble à ce qu'il voit ou pense c'est ce que les collègues de Steve jobs
ont qualifié de DISTORSION DE LA REALITE . Qu'à cela ne tienne, les sujets débattus au SAFNOG étaient intéressants mais une franche de l'auditoire francophone, lusophone ou même arabophone (ou même zuluphone, etc.) n'aura pas eu l'occasion de suivre ou de
bien s'imprégner de ces riches interventions mais comme vraisemblablement on me fait comprendre que les organisateurs de cet événement n'ont que faire de ces internautes là nous nous en tiendrons à cela.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard","serif";color:black">A Nairobi, lors de l'AFNOG Andrew avait affirmé (à la recherche du vote pluriel) qu'il avait le coeur africain parcequ'il s'est marié à une kenyane etc. Mais ce n'est pas
suffisant, le coeur africain reflète d'abord la culture africaine c'est-à-dire les langues africaines, l'art africain, les us et coutumes africaines, les valeurs africaines et tout cela peut parfaitement s'appliquer au monde des technologies.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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