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    "content": "cost us so much if the Government decided to provide animal feeds, especially during drought. We do this to other farmers; we provide subsidized or free fertilizer just to ensure that they farm and produce enough. Why can we not ensure that during droughts, we allow these pastoralist communities to either access subsidized or free animal feeds in the same way that we support other forms of agriculture? I want us to take a critical look at economies like Botswana that have supported livestock rearing and depend largely on that kind of economy. We are quickly turning into a nation that celebrates anything that is Western or that looks to the West for all its solutions. Instead of trying to support our own indigenous way of life and innovations, any time we want a solution, we quickly want to look to the West to support us in everything. At the same time we want to pride ourselves that we have 50 years of Independence. So, why are we independent if we are always running back to the colonialists for support when we fought so hard to free ourselves and become independent? Is it not time that we, as a nation, refused to be fed by those that we think might create for themselves a platform of re-entry? A desperate person cannot claim to be independent. When you have to be supported by any means and you depend on another person, then you can sing about it, talk about it, talk about your freedom, write it in the papers and praise yourself for being free. The reality is that you are the slave of the person that you depend on. So, if we want to be a free nation---"
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