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    "id": 1478842,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1478842/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.)James Nyikal",
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    "content": "God created the world, at the end of it, he said: 'I put this in the hands of human beings'. Man was created last to take care of them. You cannot have dominion over anything if you do not understand it. Therefore, the basis of our existence in this world is understanding how creation works, and that is what science is all about. What we do in politics is basically to manage that knowledge, whether it is technology or pure knowledge for the benefit of mankind. To that extent, it is our duty to store that knowledge in a structured manner that can later on be actually used so that knowledge grows upon existing knowledge. It is incremental. Many people do not think there was science in Africa. But how could we have survived in a technical world if we did not understand? I am amazed by the indigenous knowledge we have. I look back when I was a child and I think of the environment. One thing my grandfather hated was people who cut trees. He would always say: ‘‘Why are you cutting that tree? You will create a desert.’’ Did it have to take time for us to know this or go to international conferences to know what my grandfather knew? Of course, not! If you look at food in terms of storage, we look at freezing as the best way of storing food. But look at how we stored food in the old days. Drying food with salt is extremely scientific. No bacteria can grow in a dry environment, which is with salt. It is extremely scientific. Fermenting food produces antibacterials. It took a long time before it was realised that fermented milk or sour milk stays longer on the shelf without invasion from bacteria. When we were giving our children fermented milk, people thought that this was not smart. Look at food. In my culture, people knew that children and pregnant women needed to be fed blood from animals and now, we go to the hospitals to get folic acid so that we can get iron. Them, they were just given food. When the Europeans came, those things were seen as backward and we did not continue with their storage. Just like iron mongering, all cultures…"
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