1. We used to grow maize in our backyards and some greenways back in the day. Our strategy was simple, we choose Pioneer seeds because it had more kernels per cob and it was resistant to drought and heat.
2. We used to sakura at least twice, first at knee level then again before tassels come out so that by the time harvesting was ready we would have sorted the whole field. Fertilizer we used both compound D or and KN at appropriate times.
3. This was just town farming, not even a huge place. Every year for our family of 4 we had at least a tonne. The conclusion from our neighbors was that we had "divisi" a form of mbashto that stole their success in doing the same.
4. You see what I mean. Hardwork doesn't count in our culture, organization and skill and intelligence and the application thereof doesn't count, it has to be superstition! This is why we are ill equipped for the 21st century!.
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1. Even if Christianity had not made it into the African continent we would still be stuck in a rut. We believe there is a mbashto for everything and anything. KuMasowe they give muteuro we chibereko, muteuro wekuwana basa, wekugona chikoro, webusiness.
2. Our traditional beliefs unfittted us for a fast evolving world that needs dedication and full application of the mind without rabid superstition. Right now a whole cabinet in country X is obsessed with the bones and a ruling staff from a dead corrupt leader.
3. We believe success can only come through engaging in some super human ritual. Grown men rape mentally ill vagrants in the name of luck, some sodomize little boys coz n'anga told them so. Some become gay for a moment to secure good luck.
1. The problem isn't religion, the problem is we plan and don't act, elect criminals and then cry when they impoverish us. We have no willpower to save ourselves nor do we respect ourselves to go beyond what our ancestors did. We are rabidly nostalgic living in the past.
2. We need to be serious about solving the problems we face. Everything we have received from other cultures we have made it an end unto itself. In religion we stop working hard and being aggressive in getting more because we want it to rain from heaven.
3. We got democracy but we have made elections the goal and not part of the process. Ours is an inability to improve and go beyond what our ancestors left us. They left us many things but we still want to just do what they did in their time.