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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "content": "He encouraged that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am surprised that during our days when we were being taught from Standard 1 to 4, we used to be taught in vernacular, our own language. I learned to read and write in Luo. All the subjects were taught in Luo up to Standard 3 when they introduced English. We started speaking English and doing exams in English in Standard 4. From Standard 5, you had to do English, whether you liked it or not. If you did not speak English, they gave you a disc in school. This great man wrote more than 200 books and they were literatures in schools. They were not only in Kenya, but in the whole of Africa and in the world as well because he went to teach in America. He was teaching Americans. He was not teaching Kenyans there in America. This was a great Professor of the world. He had a great passion for our country because he believed that even after Independence and when the colonial flag was brought down, our people were still culturally colonized, mkosa mila ni mtumwa . When you lose your culture, you are like a slave. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, he believed that even though we got our Independence, that independence did not give us the freedom of being colonized culturally. It did not give us the freedom of being colonized economically because our economy was still tied to the Metropolis. We were like an appendage of the colonial regimes. We have been unable since then to shed ourselves of colonial dependence and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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