Tell your story, Africa.

No one can tell our story better than we do.We've lived in these lands andweknow how much the world craves to know us.Tell your story, Africa.... Name your paths as you've knownthem, and let the world identify them so.

MOST OF THE TIME I like it when filling applications online – because they make me feel so great. Not because I enjoy the reviews, or the pressing of the keyboard. It’s the fact that this world always wants to know where I come from.

Ceaselessly, the sites often ask me to fill my nearest town and street while myself I’m at the edge of the earth’s core. Know what I mean? If you ever read articles of people climbing trees, or hilltops to tap network, then you sure read our story. We recently improved though, for we now have rental tree houses so you can take as long as you want – but you must pay for it. It’s a blooming business, and the scenario from that vantage is breathtaking. It is what I mostly like about it.

In this scenario that has repeated itself over and over, I proudly fill Kanyamgotha Street in the slots knowing very well that this in fact is the footpath leading to late Kanyamgotha’s home – who happen to my late grandfather! You know, I say, since these people, neither their system know this place; let me put it into the map! That’s why Kanyamgotha gets into the Google Maps and also into the dictionary. Isn’t that proud, that my Kanyamgotha gets into Google Maps? Someday it would be defined and illustrated like Tom Mboya Street and Boulevard Street, I pray.

We’ve named this paths as we’ve always known them, and that’s how we would like the rest of the world to identify them. So if a tourist visiting this region was to ask where he or she was, I think I would have done him/her a favor. I would proudly say, welcome to Kanyamgotha, even try 'googling' it. And I’m sure it would surprise them to fine the online reviews of the cafeterias that are now booming in this area. That’s how I want it to be.

I’m proud of my origin, in Africa. Our heritage is so unique that the whole world can’t help to admire. In fact, I no longer feel insecure at the peculiar questions, stares and questions anymore, leave alone the prejudices and stereotypes. It is stories that define us that the lack. We’ve lots of their in books, and movies, why not even us tell ours to them, in the ways we know best, through this technology?

The world needs or stories, which we are the only ones to tell. If only all of us could talk to them our stories as I do. I encourage Africa to be brave before this vast multicultural audience. In their lands, they face almost the same thing as we do, they just don’t know how we cope. The vastness of the world we’ve watched and read, but ours is still muffled in our fear. And day by day it gets tainted when we alienate ourselves to the foreign cultures. We’ll leave no real history if what we live are the lives of others, what we wear and the names we give to our homes and streets.

Where is us in us?

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