Photo: Mujahid Safodien/IRIN The Gisu tribe, also known as the Bamasaaba, live in the landslide prone areas on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda. Even after the recent landslide on 25 June, they remain greatly attached to their ancestral land and its fertile soil and resist government efforts to relocate them to safer locations.
The Gisu tribe's coat of arms is emblazoned with the words 'Lwe liswa nibulamu bwe Bagisu' ['The life of Bagisu depends on their land']. It helps explain why the Gisu continue to live dangerously.
Ancestral land
Bernard Mujasi , the Mbale district chairman, says people who live in landslide-prone areas have been resisting government plans to relocate them to safer areas because they fear losing their tribal identity.
"Bagisu do not want to be detached from where their ancestors are buried," says Mujasi.
According to Alice Natsila, a mother of five children, tribal elders who perform the circumcision rituals on young males are particularly resistant to moving outside the Bugisu sub-region.
Fertile soil
"The Gisu also know that their staple food matooke [bananas] does well in the fertile volcanic soils of Mount Elgon. They feel that if they move to a different climatic condition, they may not be able to grow their favourite food and cash crops," according to Mujasi.
"The soil's fertility is also favourable for growing the Bugisu variety of Arabica coffee which remains the main source of income for several households in Bugisu region," says Mujasi. The area also provides good yields for vegetables, yams, beans and maize.
People also have access to bamboo shoots which is a delicacy among the Gisu. The mountain also provides a livelihood for the communities who have limited land on which to carry out agricultural activities.
Cool climate
Many locals fear that if they are resettled in the hotter lowlands, they may be exposed to diseases like malaria which is less common in the hilly and landslide-prone districts such as Bududa.
Meanwhile some electioneering politicians are contributing to the degradation of the environment by encouraging residents to do farming on hill tops, cut down trees and, in some cases, build houses in landslide prone areas, according to Natsila.
Costs
Former Sironko district chairman David Wambi Kibale says that since the El-Ni-o rains of 1997 the Bugisu sub-region leaders have been asking the Ugandan central government to secure funds to resettle people encroaching on Mount Elgon National Park in the densely populated Bugisu sub-region.
After the massive landslide on 25 June that struck several villages in Bududa district, the Minister of Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, announced that the government needs over 5 billion shillings (around 1.6 million euros) a year to resettle approximately 10,000 people.
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There maybe a compromise: The bagishu can stay where they are but the 'geography of the land' can be changed for them. For example, the land can be 'shelved' to reduce the risk of of the landslides. This method is also of better value than resettling the people elsewhere and the people get to keep the land and the benefits they derive from it. Changing the geography is NOT NEW: deserts have been irrigated for cultivation etc, etc. THE UGANDA GOVERNMENT IS URGED TO CONSIDER THIS COMPROMISE.
Mega Katonda Afirika, WIFE OF GOD.
HEARING THE TONES OF THIS AUTHOR I SEE THE RITES OF ISRAELITES IN THIER EXISTENCE. ALL THOSE WHO READ THE BIBLE ARE READING OF THEMSELVES. THIS IS JUST FOR THOUGHT. AS HISTORY AS TAUGHHT THE ORIGINAL JEWS IN 1948 WANYED TO MOVE TO UGANDS ; I OD NOT KNOW WHY? WHAT I DO KNOW IS THE CREATION OF HUMANITY THE ONES WE KNPW IN THE BIBLE BEGAN HERE AND SPEAKS OF THESE PEOPLE THRUOUT ALL AFRICA. I SAY TO AFRICANS EVERY TRIBE OR NATION THAT STILL HAS ITS TRADITIONAL WAYS , YOU WILL FIND EVERY ASASET OF THE BIBLICAL RITES TRADITIONS INSTILLED IN THESE PEOPLE FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS. THE EARTH THE SOIL IS A VERY PROFOUND THING TO MOST AFRICANS, AT HOME AND ABROAD IT IS A TRADITION THAT IS VERY MUCH RESPECTED AND PROTECTED. WE RECIEVE ALL OUR PRODUCE OUR LIVES DEPEND ON OUR LOVING PROTECTING OF THE EARTH AS IT SERVES US WITH NUTRIENTS AND LIFE "FULL STOP".NOT VEERING FROM THE SUBJECT IS THERE SOMETHING TECHNOLICALY WE CAN DO TO DIVERT THE CONDITIONS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE MUD SLIDES. WHY? WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT MOVING 500,000 THIS IS NOT AN EASY ASK!!! WHAT ALSO WE MUST KEEP IN MIND THE TRAUMA THAT GOES ALONG WITH EVEN VOLUNTEER MOVEMENTS. SHOULD THE LAND BE ARID DRY AND COMPLETELY BARREN THEN PEOPLE WOULD GLADLY MOVE. WHAT I SUGGEST IS THE RESEARCH OF PLACES LIKE PERU AND CHINA WHERE PEPLE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS PERFECTED THE ART OF LIVING WITH THESE CONDITIONS PREVENTING WITH A STRATEGY TO DENY THE EROSION OF THE LANDS. ANOTHER THING THAT WE MUST RECOGNISE IS THESE BRAINWAHSED AND SILLY POLITICIANS WHOM HAVE DISTANCED THEMSELVES FROM THIER CULTURES THINKING THE ARE SO BRIGHT AND CREATING MORE MISERY THAN BENIFIT. WE MUST RECOGNISE THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE FOOD EFFICIENT THEY ARE NOT A BURDEN ON THE STATE.. THEY NEED TECHNOLOGY THAT WOULD TRANSFORM THE AREAS INTYO MEGA ENRICHED PROSPEROUS REGIONS IN UGAND. UGANDA ISA VERY FERTILE PLACE AN SHOULD BE RICH WITH AGRICULTURAL GAINS. THE THOUSANDS OF FARMS COULD FEED THE NATION WHILE EXPORETING FEEDING OTHERS WHOM ARE ALSO LESS FORTUNATE. THE LEADERSHIP IN UGANDA IS POOR IN REGARDS TP UPLIFTMENT EDUCATION AND THE ASSERTION TO THIER PAYMASTERS IN WASHINGTON AND TELAVIV THEY WANT TECHNOLOGY. IT IS IMPERATIVE WE EMBRACE TECHNOLOGY EVEN IF WE HAVE TO DO FOR SELF . PRIDE IS A BIG THING IN STEAD OF HANGING ONTO OUTDATED ETHNIC RIVALRIES WE SHOULD BUMP HEADS RESEARCH WHAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO PURSUE TO MAKE THE NATION VIBRANT AND ALL PEOPLE FINANCIALY STABLE. DO NOT BE LIKE THE WEST ERNERS WHOM ALWAYS HAS AN AGENDA THEY DO NOUGHT OFR NOUGHT, THERE IS ALWAYS A CATCH IN WHATEVER THEY DO. THE THINGS THEY DO WILL ALWAYS I REMIND YOU TURN AROUND AND BITE YOU IN THE BACKSIDE; THIS I GAURANTEE YOU". AFRICA IS IN A PERFECT POSITION NOT TO MAKE OR GO IN THE WAYS OF THE WEST. THIS MENAS NOT FOLLOWING THEM FINACIALY BY ADAPTING THIER METHODS OF BUSINESS WHICH IS PRIMARILY DYSFUNCTIONAL SINCE EVERYTHING THEY OD IS BASED IN CORRUPTION THEFT AND GRAFT" THIS SHY WE SEE THEM COLLAPSING EVERYTIME YOU HEAR THE TALK ITS ABOUT FAILURE IN THIER BANKING SYSTEMS. IT IS TIME WE KEEP OUR PEOPLE ALIVE WITH HOPE FAITH AND THE TRUST IN THE "ALL MIGHTRY GOD" I UGGEST WE ALL READ THE BIBLE ALL THOSE WHO LIVE TRADITIONALY AND TELL THE WORLD IF YOU SEE YOURSELVES IN THESE SCRIPTURES. IT IS ORU TIME THIS THE AFRICANS TIME. THIS IS NTO TIME TO SELL OUT TO THE USA GIVING THEM THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE THOSE WHO ARE STRUBBORN AND FROM A LONGER TIME WHERE THE KISSING OF ASS TO WHITE SUPERIORS IS NOT THE WAY FORWARD ANYMORE. THE PEOPLE WANT BENIFICIAL EDUCATION THEY WANT TO TAKE THIER LIVES FORWARD BRINGING SECURITY PRIDE DIGNITYNOT BEING BLACKMAILED I CALL IT WHITE MAILED BY THSE WESTERN HYPOCRITS WHO HAVE BEEN USING BLACP PEOPLE AS SLAVES PHYSICALLY AS WELL AS MENTALLY WITH THIER ECONOMICAL SLAVERY THIER MENTAL SLAVERY POTRAYING THEMSELVES AS GOD IN THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST. SHOUDL WE TRUE TO ORUSELVES WEWOULD RECOGNISE THAT THE LINE OF DAVID WAS STILL WITH US IN OUR LIFETIME IN THE PERSON OF 'HIS MAJESTYMEPEROR HAILE SELASIE 12. HE ATRUE DECENDANT OF DAVID ESTABLISHED HIS THRONE TO GIVE TO THE AFRICANS THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLICAL ACKNOLEGEMENTS THAT WE ARE THE FIRST AND WE HAVE THE ESATBLISHED LINKS TO WHAT IS HERALDED AS THE WHITE MAN IN THIER FALSE IMPRESSIONS THAT THEY WERE IS RAEL THEY MIRACULOUSLY DID ALL THE THINGS WE DID JUMPED OVER US IN THE ESTABLISHED LINKS OF THE ORIGINS OF MAN. THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL EGYPTIANS WHO WERE THE ISRAELITES. WHAT I WANT AFRICA TO KNOW IS THAT THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE HAVE AGREED THAT YES AFRICANS WERE THE FIRST EGYPTIANS THEY RESPECT THAT AND ACKNOWLEDGE THIER AFRICAN ROOTS. ARE WE AS AFRICANS GOING TO RESPECT OUR BEGINNINGS OR ARE WE FOINT TO DENY OURSELVES THE POWER OF THE TRUTH??? STEP UP YOUR IDEAS ASK OTHER NAT5IONS HOW THEY GOT AROUND THSE PROBLEMS ASL BRAZIL ASK PERU THEY HAVE BEEN MOST SUCCESSFUL IF WE DO NOT REACH OUT TO OUR HUMANITY WE WILL NOT ACCOMPLISH OUR PROMISE TO THE "ALL MIGHTY GOD" THAT " HE" ALONE IS OUR MASTER " AND WE WILL SEEK TO MAINTAIN THE PERFECTION OF HSICREATION BY ENTERACTING WITH ALL OUR PEOPLE ON THE EARTH. WE MUST NOT NOR SHOULD NTO EMBRACE A CULTURE THAT WANTS TO HAVE ENEMIES WANST TO DISCRIMINATE WHAT KIND OF MIND SET IS THAT?? " OUR CREATOR" IS COMPASSIONAT FORGIVING LOVING TRUTHFUL HONEST IMPARTIAL TRUSTWORTHY HOLY HONOURABLE" THESE ARE THE ATTRIBUTES HE ENGRAVED IN OUR SUBCONSCIENCE WE ARE NOT HATERS NOR ARE WE BIGGOTS BIASED PEOPLE WE ARE HONOURABLE TRSUTWORTHY RIGHTEOUSS DIGNIFIED PEOPLE COMMING FROM A TRADITION OF KINGS AND QUEENS EVERYSINGLE COMMUNITY IN AFRICA HAS A KING AND QUEEN THIS WAS TO REMIND US OF OUR COMMITTMENT TO "OUR LOD AND MAJESTY THE ALL MIGHTY GOD" THIS WAS THE REASON FOR KINGS IN AFRICA. WE WERE ALL BOUND BY TRADITION TO "GOD THE KING" WE HAD OUR LAST KING TRUE KING OONE WHOM BY TRADTION AND TRUTH WAS THE PERSONIN "HAILE SELASSIE THE FIRST HE WAS OUR REMINDER THAT HE WAS FROM THE ANCIENT TRADTION THAT WE ESTABLISEHD IN YERUSALEM YORDAN YERICHO ALL THESE WERE PART AND PARCEL OF OUR KINGDOMS. WE HAVE TRUTH BEFORE US YET WE STILL IGNORE ALL THE SIGNS OF OUR HONOUIRABLE AND GLORIOUS PAST. WHEN EGYPT SAYS TO0 AFRICA WE ACCEPT THE TRUTH WE KNOW WHERE OUR BEGINNINGS LIE""" THOSE ARE3 MONUMENTAL WORS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY WE MUST EMRACE ALL OUR BRETHERN FROM UAE BAHRAIN YEMEN ALL THE WAY TO CAPE TOWN EAST WEST NORTH SOUTH. WE MUST LOOK TO EACH OTHER FOR OUR ASPIRATIONS THERE ARE OVER ONE BILLION OF US WE DO NOT NEED TO BEG OR BORROW. WE MUST STIMULATE TRADING WITH EACHOTHER FOR EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY WE CAN HAVE GROWTH WITHOUT BEING SLAVES OR DISHONMOURED BY THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE OUR SUPERIORERS. WE ARE A VERY POWERFUL PEOPLE AND WE MUST LOOK TO THE INSPIRED ONES IN ALL AFRICA, TO ESTABLISH A FRAMEWORK WHICH WE CAN SET THAT IS TRULY DEMOCRATIC UNAMBIGUOUS AND FREE FROM INTERDICTION BY THE WEST " "WE MUST TRUST OUR ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS. REMEMBER THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN"!!!!!
HEARING THE TONES OF THIS AUTHOR I SEE THE RITES OF ISRAELITES IN THIER EXISTENCE. ALL THOSE WHO READ THE BIBLE ARE READING OF THEMSELVES. THIS IS JUST FOR THOUGHT!!. AS HISTORY AS TAUGHHT THE ORIGINAL JEWS IN 1948 WANTED TO MOVE TO UGANDA ; I DO NOT KNOW WHY? WHAT I DO KNOW IS ,THE CREATION OF HUMANITY .THE ONES WE KNOW IN THE BIBLE BEGAN HERE AND SPEAKS OF THESE PEOPLE THRUOUT ALL AFRICA. I SAY TO AFRICANS EVERY TRIBE OR NATION THAT STILL HAS ITS TRADITIONAL WAYS , YOU WILL FIND EVERY ASASET OF THE BIBLICAL RITES TRADITIONS INSTILLED IN THE PEOPLE FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS. THE EARTH THE SOIL IS A VERY PROFOUND THING TO MOST AFRICANS, AT HOME AND ABROAD IT IS A TRADITION THAT IS VERY MUCH RESPECTED AND PROTECTED. WE RECIEVE ALL OUR PRODUCE OUR LIVES DEPEND ON OUR LOVING PROTECTING OF THE EARTH AS IT SERVES US WITH NUTRIENTS AND LIFE "FULL STOP".NOT VEERING FROM THE SUBJECT IS THERE SOMETHING TECHNOLICALY WE CAN DO TO DIVERT THE CONDITIONS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE MUD SLIDES. WHY? WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT MOVING 500,000 THIS IS NOT AN EASY ASK!!! WHAT ALSO WE MUST KEEP IN MIND THE TRAUMA THAT GOES ALONG WITH EVEN VOLUNTEER MOVEMENTS. SHOULD THE LAND BE ARID DRY AND COMPLETELY BARREN THEN PEOPLE WOULD GLADLY MOVE. WHAT I SUGGEST IS THE RESEARCH OF PLACES LIKE PERU AND CHINA WHERE PEPLE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS PERFECTED THE ART OF LIVING WITH THESE CONDITIONS PREVENTING WITH A STRATEGY TO DENY THE EROSION OF THE LANDS. ANOTHER THING THAT WE MUST RECOGNISE IS THESE BRAINWAHSED AND SILLY POLITICIANS WHOM HAVE DISTANCED THEMSELVES FROM THIER CULTURES THINKING THE ARE SO BRIGHT AND CREATING MORE MISERY THAN BENIFIT. WE MUST RECOGNISE THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE FOOD EFFICIENT THEY ARE NOT A BURDEN ON THE STATE.. THEY NEED TECHNOLOGY THAT WOULD TRANSFORM THE AREAS INTYO MEGA ENRICHED PROSPEROUS REGIONS IN UGAND. UGANDA ISA VERY FERTILE PLACE AN SHOULD BE RICH WITH AGRICULTURAL GAINS. THE THOUSANDS OF FARMS COULD FEED THE NATION WHILE EXPORETING FEEDING OTHERS WHOM ARE ALSO LESS FORTUNATE. THE LEADERSHIP IN UGANDA IS POOR IN REGARDS TP UPLIFTMENT EDUCATION AND THE ASSERTION TO THIER PAYMASTERS IN WASHINGTON AND TELAVIV THEY WANT TECHNOLOGY. IT IS IMPERATIVE WE EMBRACE TECHNOLOGY EVEN IF WE HAVE TO DO FOR SELF . PRIDE IS A BIG THING IN STEAD OF HANGING ONTO OUTDATED ETHNIC RIVALRIES WE SHOULD BUMP HEADS RESEARCH WHAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO PURSUE TO MAKE THE NATION VIBRANT AND ALL PEOPLE FINANCIALY STABLE. DO NOT BE LIKE THE WEST ERNERS WHOM ALWAYS HAS AN AGENDA THEY DO NOUGHT OFR NOUGHT, THERE IS ALWAYS A CATCH IN WHATEVER THEY DO. THE THINGS THEY DO WILL ALWAYS I REMIND YOU TURN AROUND AND BITE YOU IN THE BACKSIDE; THIS I GAURANTEE YOU". AFRICA IS IN A PERFECT POSITION NOT TO MAKE OR GO IN THE WAYS OF THE WEST. THIS MENAS NOT FOLLOWING THEM FINACIALY BY ADAPTING THIER METHODS OF BUSINESS WHICH IS PRIMARILY DYSFUNCTIONAL SINCE EVERYTHING THEY OD IS BASED IN CORRUPTION THEFT AND GRAFT" THIS SHY WE SEE THEM COLLAPSING EVERYTIME YOU HEAR THE TALK ITS ABOUT FAILURE IN THIER BANKING SYSTEMS. IT IS TIME WE KEEP OUR PEOPLE ALIVE WITH HOPE FAITH AND THE TRUST IN THE "ALL MIGHTRY GOD" I UGGEST WE ALL READ THE BIBLE ALL THOSE WHO LIVE TRADITIONALY AND TELL THE WORLD IF YOU SEE YOURSELVES IN THESE SCRIPTURES. IT IS ORU TIME THIS THE AFRICANS TIME. THIS IS NTO TIME TO SELL OUT TO THE USA GIVING THEM THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE THOSE WHO ARE STRUBBORN AND FROM A LONGER TIME WHERE THE KISSING OF ASS TO WHITE SUPERIORS IS NOT THE WAY FORWARD ANYMORE. THE PEOPLE WANT BENIFICIAL EDUCATION THEY WANT TO TAKE THIER LIVES FORWARD BRINGING SECURITY PRIDE DIGNITYNOT BEING BLACKMAILED I CALL IT WHITE MAILED BY THSE WESTERN HYPOCRITS WHO HAVE BEEN USING BLACP PEOPLE AS SLAVES PHYSICALLY AS WELL AS MENTALLY WITH THIER ECONOMICAL SLAVERY THIER MENTAL SLAVERY POTRAYING THEMSELVES AS GOD IN THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST. SHOUDL WE TRUE TO ORUSELVES WEWOULD RECOGNISE THAT THE LINE OF DAVID WAS STILL WITH US IN OUR LIFETIME IN THE PERSON OF 'HIS MAJESTYMEPEROR HAILE SELASIE 12. HE ATRUE DECENDANT OF DAVID ESTABLISHED HIS THRONE TO GIVE TO THE AFRICANS THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLICAL ACKNOLEGEMENTS THAT WE ARE THE FIRST AND WE HAVE THE ESATBLISHED LINKS TO WHAT IS HERALDED AS THE WHITE MAN IN THIER FALSE IMPRESSIONS THAT THEY WERE IS RAEL THEY MIRACULOUSLY DID ALL THE THINGS WE DID JUMPED OVER US IN THE ESTABLISHED LINKS OF THE ORIGINS OF MAN. THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL EGYPTIANS WHO WERE THE ISRAELITES. WHAT I WANT AFRICA TO KNOW IS THAT THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE HAVE AGREED THAT YES AFRICANS WERE THE FIRST EGYPTIANS THEY RESPECT THAT AND ACKNOWLEDGE THIER AFRICAN ROOTS. ARE WE AS AFRICANS GOING TO RESPECT OUR BEGINNINGS OR ARE WE FOINT TO DENY OURSELVES THE POWER OF THE TRUTH??? STEP UP YOUR IDEAS ASK OTHER NAT5IONS HOW THEY GOT AROUND THSE PROBLEMS ASL BRAZIL ASK PERU THEY HAVE BEEN MOST SUCCESSFUL IF WE DO NOT REACH OUT TO OUR HUMANITY WE WILL NOT ACCOMPLISH OUR PROMISE TO THE "ALL MIGHTY GOD" THAT " HE" ALONE IS OUR MASTER " AND WE WILL SEEK TO MAINTAIN THE PERFECTION OF HSICREATION BY ENTERACTING WITH ALL OUR PEOPLE ON THE EARTH. WE MUST NOT NOR SHOULD NTO EMBRACE A CULTURE THAT WANTS TO HAVE ENEMIES WANST TO DISCRIMINATE WHAT KIND OF MIND SET IS THAT?? " OUR CREATOR" IS COMPASSIONAT FORGIVING LOVING TRUTHFUL HONEST IMPARTIAL TRUSTWORTHY HOLY HONOURABLE" THESE ARE THE ATTRIBUTES HE ENGRAVED IN OUR SUBCONSCIENCE WE ARE NOT HATERS NOR ARE WE BIGGOTS BIASED PEOPLE WE ARE HONOURABLE TRSUTWORTHY RIGHTEOUSS DIGNIFIED PEOPLE COMMING FROM A TRADITION OF KINGS AND QUEENS EVERYSINGLE COMMUNITY IN AFRICA HAS A KING AND QUEEN THIS WAS TO REMIND US OF OUR COMMITTMENT TO "OUR LOD AND MAJESTY THE ALL MIGHTY GOD" THIS WAS THE REASON FOR KINGS IN AFRICA. WE WERE ALL BOUND BY TRADITION TO "GOD THE KING" WE HAD OUR LAST KING TRUE KING OONE WHOM BY TRADTION AND TRUTH WAS THE PERSONIN "HAILE SELASSIE THE FIRST HE WAS OUR REMINDER THAT HE WAS FROM THE ANCIENT TRADTION THAT WE ESTABLISEHD IN YERUSALEM YORDAN YERICHO ALL THESE WERE PART AND PARCEL OF OUR KINGDOMS. WE HAVE TRUTH BEFORE US YET WE STILL IGNORE ALL THE SIGNS OF OUR HONOUIRABLE AND GLORIOUS PAST. WHEN EGYPT SAYS TO0 AFRICA WE ACCEPT THE TRUTH WE KNOW WHERE OUR BEGINNINGS LIE""" THOSE ARE3 MONUMENTAL WORS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY WE MUST EMRACE ALL OUR BRETHERN FROM UAE BAHRAIN YEMEN ALL THE WAY TO CAPE TOWN EAST WEST NORTH SOUTH. WE MUST LOOK TO EACH OTHER FOR OUR ASPIRATIONS THERE ARE OVER ONE BILLION OF US WE DO NOT NEED TO BEG OR BORROW. WE MUST STIMULATE TRADING WITH EACHOTHER FOR EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY WE CAN HAVE GROWTH WITHOUT BEING SLAVES OR DISHONMOURED BY THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE OUR SUPERIORERS. WE ARE A VERY POWERFUL PEOPLE AND WE MUST LOOK TO THE INSPIRED ONES IN ALL AFRICA, TO ESTABLISH A FRAMEWORK WHICH WE CAN SET THAT IS TRULY DEMOCRATIC UNAMBIGUOUS AND FREE FROM INTERDICTION BY THE WEST " "WE MUST TRUST OUR ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS. REMEMBER THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN"!!!!!
Just as female circumcision (genital mutilation) is a despicable atrocity intended to permanently reduce the sexual sensation of women, so too, male circumcision is nothing but penile-sexual reduction surgery (genital mutilation) intended to permanently reduce the sexual sensation/function of men. Circumcision under false pretences (without FULLY INFORMED consent) is a human rights’ violation. Non-therapeutic circumcision of defenceless children is criminal sexual assault and child abuse. http://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function/ http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/