Comments on: Welcome to our world… http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/ Opinions, commentary, na kadhalika Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:39:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: MG http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-696 MG Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:01:42 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-696 Ory, Thank you for your response. I am an Ethiopian-Eritrean who was raised in America. Let me tell you my feelings about this Italian journalist. She is a so-called expert on Eritrea. Eritrea was Italy's first colony. I accidently brought her book about Eritrea ("I didn't do it for you"). Let me start off by saying that I never finished the book. Within the first couple of pages I was completely dumbfounded with her overall condsending attitude towards Eritreans. Her book is a historical account of Italy's colonization of Eritrea. (I guess, the 1930's to 1970's/present). It gives details of the terror that Eritreans lived through by ger forefathers but yet it was ... It seemed as if she wanted to relive the good ole days. At times I wanted to burn the book, but I have to remember that the apple doesn't fall to far from the tree. I can't help but wonder if she's related to any of the colonizers?? Thanks for your well warranted response. Ory,
Thank you for your response.
I am an Ethiopian-Eritrean who was raised in America. Let me tell you my feelings about this Italian journalist. She is a so-called expert on Eritrea. Eritrea was Italy’s first colony.

I accidently brought her book about Eritrea (”I didn’t do it for you”). Let me start off by saying that I never finished the book. Within the first couple of pages I was completely dumbfounded with her overall condsending attitude towards Eritreans. Her book is a historical account of Italy’s colonization of Eritrea. (I guess, the 1930’s to 1970’s/present). It gives details of the terror that Eritreans lived through by ger forefathers but yet it was …
It seemed as if she wanted to relive the good ole days.
At times I wanted to burn the book, but I have to remember that the apple doesn’t fall to far from the tree. I can’t help but wonder if she’s related to any of the colonizers??
Thanks for your well warranted response.

]]> By: Osas http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-330 Osas Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:24:34 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-330 I reserve judgement (rare with me, I know)... But for all those who are interested, and who want to gain a deeper impression, here is the URL for more of Michela Wrong's writings: http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/Michela_Wrong Osas <strong>Rare indeed :-)</strong> I reserve judgement (rare with me, I know)… But for all those who are interested, and who want to gain a deeper impression, here is the URL for more of Michela Wrong’s writings:
http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/Michela_Wrong

Osas

Rare indeed :-)

]]> By: chepkemboi http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-324 chepkemboi Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:05:22 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-324 Am with you Ory, she has to get over herself and join the rest of us. I read her book about DRC and the thing that struck me is that she had very few congolese as references. Kwani how can you research a country without talking to it's people ? As you aptly put it, welcome to our world Keep writing Am with you Ory, she has to get over herself and join the rest of us.

I read her book about DRC and the thing that struck me is that she had very few congolese as references. Kwani how can you research a country without talking to it’s people ?

As you aptly put it, welcome to our world

Keep writing

]]> By: Tsegaye http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-312 Tsegaye Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:00:32 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-312 How wrong Ms. Wrongs keeps on being. This "expert" is not done damaging some more African souls. She had recently published an article on the BBC website, an article that was unprofessional at best and very divisive and hateful at worst. The article was about what she said attitudes taken by ordinary Eritreans regarding their bretheren to the South, in Ethiopia, especially the Tigrigna speakers. Anyways, as she keeps on specializing fumbling the facts and distorting truths whenever she has the chance, I just remembered a video movie that was produced in Ethiopia showing a visa interview session at the US embassy in Addis Ababa. I was laughing through the roof when I saw the scene where this otherwise normal and decent middle aged Ethiopian tell the white consular officer, "you go to your country!". As she is bewildered and wide eyed with astonishment and looking for an explanation through the interpretor, the really angry man tells her, "if you don't want me in your country, then I don't want you in mine either." Well, surely an argument he will never win. Ms. Wrong, do you have any idea how wrong you are? How wrong Ms. Wrongs keeps on being.

This “expert” is not done damaging some more African souls. She had recently published an article on the BBC website, an article that was unprofessional at best and very divisive and hateful at worst. The article was about what she said attitudes taken by ordinary Eritreans regarding their bretheren to the South, in Ethiopia, especially the Tigrigna speakers.

Anyways, as she keeps on specializing fumbling the facts and distorting truths whenever she has the chance, I just remembered a video movie that was produced in Ethiopia showing a visa interview session at the US embassy in Addis Ababa. I was laughing through the roof when I saw the scene where this otherwise normal and decent middle aged Ethiopian tell the white consular officer, “you go to your country!”. As she is bewildered and wide eyed with astonishment and looking for an explanation through the interpretor, the really angry man tells her, “if you don’t want me in your country, then I don’t want you in mine either.”

Well, surely an argument he will never win.

Ms. Wrong, do you have any idea how wrong you are?

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » KenyanSphere - Opening 2006 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-310 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » KenyanSphere - Opening 2006 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:24:50 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-310 [...] o be able to travel ‘Westwards’ the Kenyan Pundit has little sympathy when the shoe is on the other foot, as was the case when someone needed to go to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Wan [...] [...] o be able to travel ‘Westwards’ the Kenyan Pundit has little sympathy when the shoe is on the other foot, as was the case when someone needed to go to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Wan [...]

]]> By: Ntwiga http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-309 Ntwiga Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:38:38 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-309 hi Read your comments on surfing the web at cyber-cafes and just thought that I might suggest 2 items that I found invaluable when I was in your shoes. The first is a USB drive - the largest size I could afford and the second was a program named HTTRack found at http://www.httrack.com/ that allows you to copy a an website onto the USB drive to read at leisure wherever. All you do it point it to a web site and click copy and it save a browsable copy of the site on the USB drive. hi
Read your comments on surfing the web at cyber-cafes and just thought that I might suggest 2 items that I found invaluable when I was in your shoes. The first is a USB drive - the largest size I could afford and the second was a program named HTTRack found at http://www.httrack.com/ that allows you to copy a an website onto the USB drive to read at leisure wherever. All you do it point it to a web site and click copy and it save a browsable copy of the site on the USB drive.

]]> By: valdez http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-308 valdez Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:45:47 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-308 Ms. Wrong is misusing international journalism and westerndemocracy . Ms. Wrong is misusing international journalism and westerndemocracy .

]]> By: Ayele http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-306 Ayele Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:55:49 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-306 Won't even go into details, but considering the shame, degrading and denigrating that goes on in places like Ethiopia and Kenya in order for an ordinary citizen to get a visitor's visa to the US or Canada, Ms. Wrong was actually one of the high flyers, who unlike Canadian visa applicants, did not have to sit idle while awaiting the return of her passport and application for one whole month, with the high likelihood that it would return with a one liner indicating that it has been denied. She got some nerve. Won’t even go into details, but considering the shame, degrading and denigrating that goes on in places like Ethiopia and Kenya in order for an ordinary citizen to get a visitor’s visa to the US or Canada, Ms. Wrong was actually one of the high flyers, who unlike Canadian visa applicants, did not have to sit idle while awaiting the return of her passport and application for one whole month, with the high likelihood that it would return with a one liner indicating that it has been denied.

She got some nerve.

]]> By: JKE http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-305 JKE Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:30:46 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-305 Isn't Michela the one who wrote "In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz" (about Mobutu Sese Seko)? Hence the connection between the denial of a visa and journalism. Isn’t Michela the one who wrote “In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz” (about Mobutu Sese Seko)? Hence the connection between the denial of a visa and journalism.

]]> By: Georgia http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2006/01/06/welcome-to-our-world-2/#comment-304 Georgia Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:18:47 +0000 http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=104#comment-304 Here's how Brazil responded to the US's addition of extra requirements to an already stringent system back in 2004 (from http://www.v-brazil.com/tourism/visa-to-brazil.html): "The US government is submitting citizens from several nations, including Brazil, to having a picture and a fingerpring captured on arrival to the country. "Based on reciprocity, a Brazilian judge determined that all Americans arriving in Brazil should have the same treatment; abiding by the sentence, the Federal Police started to take photos and manually take fingerprints of all American citizens; delays of up to eight hours were observed in the first days that the new procedures were implemented." Countries which don't require visas of Brazilians are for the most part exempt - http://www.brazilhouston.org/ingles/vpaises.htm. Wish we all had the guts to act like this. Here’s how Brazil responded to the US’s addition of extra requirements to an already stringent system back in 2004 (from http://www.v-brazil.com/tourism/visa-to-brazil.html):

“The US government is submitting citizens from several nations, including Brazil, to having a picture and a fingerpring captured on arrival to the country.

“Based on reciprocity, a Brazilian judge determined that all Americans arriving in Brazil should have the same treatment; abiding by the sentence, the Federal Police started to take photos and manually take fingerprints of all American citizens; delays of up to eight hours were observed in the first days that the new procedures were implemented.”

Countries which don’t require visas of Brazilians are for the most part exempt - http://www.brazilhouston.org/ingles/vpaises.htm.

Wish we all had the guts to act like this.

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