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    "content": "I have got grandchildren and when they come to my house, they say “Hi Guka” and I say to them “stop it; you speak to me in the language I understand. That one you are trained in school.” They think that I have never gone to school, but I tell them “do not talk to me in that language; talk your mother’s language with me;” but they cannot understand and I tell them “you go home; if you cannot understand your mother’s language, I also do not understand English.” All of them speak very good Kikuyu because I am proud of the language that I found my mother and father speaking. But for us to think that once you speak the Queens English, you become a Mzungu, then you are nothing; you are just a slave of other people’s culture. I respect the Maasai people and even the Turkana because they have sustained their culture. The Turkanas and even the Pokots still respect advice from elderly people. They can be told not to do something and they will not do it. However, the Kikuyus now and, probably, the Kalenjins are also joining our bad band wagon - they do not listen to an old man. They think that since they speak in English, they are advanced. They have no idea that the English Language is only a means of communication. It is just for communication. I remember one time, in 1952, when I was in secondary school. The late former President Kenyatta was just a politician at that time. He visited our school and told us that the most educated person is not the one who speaks English through his nose the way the Queen does. He said that this is a person who can put pieces of wood together and make a table out of it or put sand and stones together to build a house. He said that is considered to be the most educated person. He said that the English Language is a mode of communication and has no borders, respect or anything. I will stop there. Thank you for allowing me to say something. God bless you."
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