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hi
my name is joma phillips and this is
musingi africa television thank you for
joining us again for another episode
behind me you see the beautiful lake
paradise which is the top
mount mars marseilles in marseille town
in marseilles
county it's just so beautiful
you know many kenyans are surprised to
find out just how green marshabit can be
because
growing up all we were told is that it
is a semi-arid area
barely gets any rainfall so it's very
very dry
and so when we tell them that in marsaba
town it gets very misty and actually
it's rains
and it's really cold people are usually
tremendously surprised to discover well
here is your proof today this is one of
two lakes
on mount marshabit um the other one is a
little is about
eight kilometers away from here and
marshabit is also known as the cradle of
mankind and why is that
because the leakys found remains human
remains the earliest human remains in
marshabit
county and so when the county system was
set up in
kenya marshabit county became the cradle
of mankind which is amazing yes we know
there is a debate about whether
the earliest humans were from east
africa or whether they came from south
africa
but well that kind of brings me to
another point
with all the beauty and with all the
diversity that is around us
somehow in africa we always seem to
manage to find a way to divide
and to debate endlessly about things
that
at the end of the day if you actually
sit down and think about it they might
not be
as important as we try to make them
by which i mean is it really really
necessary to have endless arguments
about origins
of mankind does it make us more superior
if we came from the south or from the
east or from the north or from the west
i don't really know what i do know is
that
as beautiful as this landscape is
you and i are more beautiful and you and
i
are the point of life in africa
because at the end of the day it's not
about the acquisition of things it's not
about building roads or building
hospitals
it's about us being able to actually
come to a place in a position where we
see
each other we see each other as brothers
and sisters
instead of walking into a room and
people immediately start to check you
out
and then ask you which country did you
come from which community are you from
those features look like you speak this
language you guys you look like you're
those guys who like to
herd cattle that means you people you
people are the ones who like to love
money
i don't know i don't know why it's so
important to
focus on discord rather than finding
ways to build
concordance and harmony and brotherhood
and
family between us we have 1.3
billion africans based on different
people's recordings of the numbers
and all those 1.3 billion people
represent
an opportunity for africa to be amazing
and to be great and to be strong and to
build something that is so great and
awesome
because among us we have scientists and
we have doctors and we have engineers
and we have teachers and we have mothers
and we have fathers
we have students people willing to learn
we have people who just
want to work the earth and grow crops
we have people who understand the
dangers of toxicity and of chemicals we
have people who have
studied issues to do with illnesses we
have people who are
experts in herbal medicine and remedies
i mean we
are amazing and we are amazingly
equipped and not only that
our brothers and sisters who were torn
from africa
during the period of slavery and taken
to different parts of the world
have been spying out the lands for us
for generations
400 years and like the israelites
it is time for their return so
we have resources and skills and people
and ideas
and people to love and whose company we
can actually enjoy
who we can work together with as one all
we need to do is shed off
every attitude that we have any pride
any arrogance
any perception that we are better or
greater than anybody else
what is better than and greater than any
way except
another line of division
what for to what end
the division between africans only works
to benefit those who are working against
africa the other night we were camping
in the forest and we met a group of
lovely people from merced county each
one coming from different communities
all of them hanging out together and
interacting like with just so much fun
and when we talked to them we
immediately formed bonds on the basis of
african brotherhood we were united on
the basis that
these invisible imaginary borders that
were imposed upon us by the colonialists
only serve as hindrances to our liberty
africans should be able to move
north west east and south without any
hindrance in fact that reminds me
one day my husband and i were sitting
and talking about visas
and we were laughing about how in the
masayama
you know tourists will go there in their
vans to watch the wildebeest crossing of
the mara river and you know watch
animals being devoured by crocodiles but
then
miss the whole point and the whole irony
behind the fact that
these animals will cross freely between
two countries
with no visa required they're just
crossing i want to go and eat here and
drink this water they cross again i want
to go and eat here and drink this water
the lions are following them because
they want to eat them and everyone's
just sort of crossing back and forth
however
however they please but when it comes to
humans
you have to get a piece of paper that is
signed and stamped by a government
official
that will then allow you to walk through
a very narrow border crossing
so that you can then access the other
country and you have paid for this piece
of paper
and for access to this country so those
animals are there crossing the river
looking and saying look at these pools
no freedom no liberty our question is
why would you subject people to that
sort of torture and
torment what's the point we are better
off together
we are better off bringing our brothers
and sisters from the u.s and other
countries where they want to come
from to come home we're better off
bringing them back home
they have knowledge and understanding
and wisdom and experiences we don't have
we have knowledge understanding wisdom
and experiences they don't have
imagine the power of all of that put
together you guys come
on we are amazing together we are better
off together
so let's find a way to eliminate this
whole thing of let me see your passport
first
and come to the place where we ask
what's up with you how are you doing is
your family well
is there any help i can offer you
talk to me even if it's a listening ear
it can make a tremendous difference what
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stop by we just wanted to share with you
our thoughts on love and african
brotherhood and is it possible
yes as long as you and i get down and
get it done
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