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    "id": 1478810,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1478810/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Masaba, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clive Gisairo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am a proud product of the Alliance High School, not Alliance Boys. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this very good Motion by my friend, Hon. Kiarie, on the need to establish a science museum in Kenya because of the many reasons he has raised, which are positive, including to preserve our culture for future generations. African history today is better documented outside Africa than in Africa itself. If you want to learn about the cradle of mankind, you will have to go to Europe and visit their museums for them to tell you that the first invention of “ABC” was in Africa. However, there is no place in Africa where you will find such documentation. This explains a broader challenge that we have as Africans. We have embraced westernisation to the point that anything African is bad and anything from the West is good. Africans could perform surgeries before the arrival of the white man. We could perform caesarean sections, but who knows about that? We have been made to believe that all those medicines, surgeries, operations, and bone repairs came with the white man. There is nothing further from the truth. This has gone further to ensure that we believe that the African way of worship was evil and it was easily classified as witchcraft. We were taught that the white man's way of worship is the right way and, therefore, we were forced to discard our traditional African religions. Such a museum will ensure that we have positive ethnicity. Each community and its history and innovations can be preserved in a place where our young children can see the good about culture A or culture B. That creates a united country because we can learn from each other and embrace the good in each other. We should not just see the negative in other communities. We may be the last group that can explain slavery because of our education system. The generations coming after us may not even understand what we are talking about. The only knowledge they get about slavery, because we have even adopted their education system, is what they tell us. It is not what we tell them. It is not what was documented by us. It is what the white man, the westerners, want to tell us about slavery. The perpetrator cannot have a better view of the subject matter than the person affected. The best people to document this for the future generation are us Africans. Unlike Hon. ‘CNN’, who has been to Greece and has interest there, I happen to have toured very many African countries. I have been to the deep of Congo. The history there is rich, but no one writes about it. Outsiders come and write how they discovered Mount Kilimanjaro. Where were we when they were discovering it? How they discovered Lake Victoria. Where were the Luos? We cannot sit down for people to discover us. They say they discovered Africans. We should support such a Motion to ensure we are able to give our children something to look back to and something to learn. We have absconded our languages. The Bible is translated into almost all native languages, but the child of today struggles to speak even The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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