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Understanding this website
This website, Mbinji-Tange Mufalo, is a recast of
"Echo in the Dark". This is, firstly, because the
thoughts, expressions and intellections in "Echo in
the Dark" can, to a considerable degree, no longer
be conceived as an echo in the dark.
Today, in my travels around the country of my birth
and beyond, I now know that even in the most distant
of places, the thoughts, expressions and
intellections in "Echo in the Dark" have touched a life.
I am grateful to
the many institutions and persons that have
indirectly and directly provided me opportunities to
expound my ideals, ideas and mentations.
Second,
"Echo in the
Dark" is here recast to broaden its scope, without
minimising its intent.
Just as "Echo in
the Dark" was a
a manifestation of freedom of expression by me, Mbinji-Tange Mufalo,
the website Mbinji-Tange Mufalo is the expression.
In essence the voice of 'the Teacher'.
The
expressions here-in seek to
bring forth into humanity the non-mainstream intellections that much too often we do not want to
accept. These are intellections we gloss over and attribute to a despondent mind, a dissident or
as it is said in Zambia a frustrated mind or non-patriot.
Yet, our inability to accept non-mainstream intellections is because
often they are contrary to what is politically or morally
accepted. Take the non-mainstream intellection that Jesus was not born
on December 25. How many people will give merit to such an
intellection!
It is heresy, I am always told.
The tragedy of our
existence is that often the politicians, and religious leaders
intellections are what constitutes
what is politically and morally accepted.
Our woes, our plight, the
misery and death of the children is simply symptomatic of our inability to assert
ourselves and argue for the contrary. We feel powerless because we have allowed ourselves
to. We even lead ourselves to obey laws that put a yoke around our skinny necklines,
simply because some "learned fellow" we consulted says it is law (sic).
Strangely, rarely do these "learned fellows" remind us that law is not
equivalent to justice or equity.
In asserting
my expressions, I will not hesitate to say I am no saint, I too I am powerless. And this fact I
never hide. If you seek to use it as an excuse, well go ahead, after all I have accepted
my own weakness. But this does not and should not stop people like us from continually
asserting ourselves in whatever media we can find. And please do not be naive about your
criticism. Always remember that in believing mainstream
intellections, be it political or
religion, you too are powerless.
I will
seek not to be racist, sexist or discriminatory in a manner that demeans individuals or
groups of individuals. But I will not hesitate to call a politician, president, king or
queen stupid, idiot or cabbage, if their governance behaviour is such that a child dies
because of their neglect and preservation of self interests. I do not owe a politician,
president, king or queen anything, as I do not subscribe to laws, customs, and traditions
that protect idiocy. I owe my existence to the children in whose borrowed time I exist. I
will express myself as I think, and not as it is expected of me to think!
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