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    "id": 1354539,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Culture is a powerful identity that each person has and we have to protect it. Since we lost our culture during colonial time and slave trade, we lost so much. We not only lost human beings as the people of Africa and Kenya, but we also lost the artefacts that we are talking about here, which is our identity. We need to bring them back and we must be proud of them. We do not need to think about them as old-fashioned things of traditional life and that they are past our history. We need to remember that a people must survive by knowing what their past is. Our artefacts that were there since time immemorial were taken away and that is how things fell apart in Africa. We have lost so much in terms of our culture and identity. If we import back our artefacts, clothes, photographs and even music, we will be back again to being Africans. Our young people today do not even know their homes, culture or language. They do not even speak it because they are not even proud of it. It is time we became proud of our past and culture because that is what makes us Africans and human beings. In other African cultures, like in South Africa, they have tried their best to maintain their culture. You see a lot of artefacts, admire their photographs, see their past and the suffering that they went through during apartheid. We do not have anything to call ours or to show. I support this by saying that it is a very good Convention in the sense that it is helping us restore what we lost in the past. Thank you for giving me this opportunity."
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