Disability is not Inability

:: Where are we going?

Its only when you as a leader know the problem that you can offer a satisfactory solution. Home grown solutions vs. outside prescriptions from Breton Woods we have overcome. But home grown solutions mean that leaders with disabilities need to learn to think beyond their disability and build solutions that can mobilize all persons with disabilities.

We need to think beyond our constituencies as the deaf or the physically challenged and look at solutions that would improve our lot as PWDs in the country’s institutions of governance.

Many fear that even with nomination say of five representatives of PWDs into parliament, they will not pursuer the interest of whom they are supposed to represent, but those of self or tribal or political masters. Leadership has to define where are we going before you mobilise to a point of no return...

There are those who argue that election of these representatives within the constituencies of disability will make them represent interests of PWDs community. It is only then that they can come up with disability-friendly legislations or mobilize resources to improve the service delivery in education, health, and employment.

In transitional Kenya this has been a big challenge to many a leader in various sectors including the Media, the MPs and the Civil Society, and Political Parties. Because a consensus of where we are, does not mean consensus of where we need to go. Opposite mutual forces will pull in all directions.

This is the tests of leadership, for much delay or too early departure may be critical. The days when you would oppress economically or militarily those who do not support where you want to go are but past…

I have never understood why we cannot pull our communities out of the pathetic worship of unproductive land. Land is only useful if it is used within productivity best beneficial to the bigger good. But depending on perception that statement can mean anything.

To some the high concentration on education is good but only with increased disposal of graduates into non-land intensive economic activities that can be undertaken in the same rural areas they live in.

:: Leadership 1

:: Leadership 2.

:: Leader's meditation

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