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    "id": 1478786,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1478786/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "This would help in explaining why we have such advanced technology in places like Cairo in Egypt, where we have what you would call the Pyramids. People see pyramids just as structural formations, but I would like to say that even today, with all the advanced western knowledge that we have, scientists are unable to explain how the traditional African was able to put up such technological marvels as the pyramids. The Pyramids are aligned astronomically, astrologically and scientifically perfect to pyramids that are in South America and the East, all scientifically aligned to a scientific exactitude that cannot be achieved even by the knowledge and scientific advancements that we have today. Most importantly, Africa has not always been a technological dwarf. At some point, in its moments of greatness, it was a scientific and technological giant. The misconceptions that it is a scientific dwarf emanate from the fact that all of African traditional knowledge and heritage has neither been put in books nor recorded in words and figures. As such, the people who read science today only understand what is captured in books - in numeracy and literacy. However, they may never understand some of the oral traditional African knowledge that used to be preserved and transitioned to other generations orally. That is why Africans today suffer inferiority complex. Africans, like Hon. Charles Nguna Ngusya (CNN), may never know that they are the ones who civilised Europe into hygiene. Between 700-1400 AD, emperors from Africa went to Europe and conquered and civilised it from its barbaric ways and taught them how to use toilets. Those Europeans were just busy defecating in the streets. It is a historical fact that the Black Moors were the emperors who ruled Europe between the years of 700-1400 AD. The absence of the recordings and exhibits of our history, and not being able to preserve our technological advancements, make us suffer the risk of misunderstanding our history. Therefore, we shall only be served that which the oppressor wants us to know. However, we ought to understand that if you do not tell your story the way you want it to be told, it shall be told by somebody else in the way he or she wants to tell it."
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