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    "content": "Prof. Mazrui developed a theory which he came to propound to us, then as students of the University of Nairobi. He said that East Africa has three traditions; the sage tradition where as a philosophy king ruling in one country, that country then was Tanzania under the late President Nyerere. According to Prof. Mazrui, he was a wise man and philosopher King of East Africa. He also said that there was also the tradition of the warrior and Iddi Amin then represented the warrior tradition where you rule not by consent of the people but by virtue of either your personal strength over the others or by virtue of others fearing you. Then there was the third tradition which he called “the elder tradition” and the elder tradition was Kenya and then the late President Jomo Kenyatta. He said that under the older tradition, one did not have to be wise, but it was assumed that by the very passage of time, you would have acquired enough experience for you to be a good ruler. This is what he accorded the late President Jomo Kenyatta. Being the oldest of all the presidents in East Africa then, President Jomo Kenyatta was supposed to be the most experienced of the presidents. So, this is a summary that Prof. Ali Mazrui gave of the political leadership of East Africa at the time he was leaving East Africa to go and live in exile in the United States of America (USA). Madam Temporary Speaker, a lot of intellectuals and academicians of this country are non-committed. They are people who do not even believe what they teach. They are people who do not practice what they teach. This very term “professor---”"
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