Ours is not Uhuru for freedom; no, it’s Uhuru for independence!
After Africa gained independence, we separated the freedom of our people from our countries. We said that our country's independence has little to do with our people's freedom.
I would propose the examination of the following problematic in any Political Thought 101 class: Does a nation’s independence lead to its people’s freedom? Or, alternatively, how is it that the independence of nations in the Third World has not necessarily translated into their peoples’ freedom?
It is interesting to note, at the outset that in our linguistic construction, in Kiswahili, that is, the two words, “independence” and “freedom” are given as “Uhuru”, which renders the problematic nominally nonsensical, because in our language “freedom” is Uhuru, just as “independence” is.
