Cyprian Fernandes: A peep into the future in those pioneering days

Grystal Gazing

by Teresa Claudia Barreto

Crystal Gazing, or looking into the future is a fast fading occupation but nevertheless an interesting one. Would you like to know what the future holds in store for us? Well to be quite truthful the forecast is very bleak with very little stability for youth. The present mundane pattern followed by the majority of the younger set is one of the major causes of this outlook. The future calls for greater initiative and a variety of occupations. Why is it that nearly every girl or boy after leaving school immediately tags on to some office or Government department? Is it because it is convenient to do so or is it due to a lack of talent or ambition? Or does the fault lie further afield?

Kenya is essentially a multi-racial colony and within a few years' time Europeans, Africans, Indians and Goans will be competing on equal grounds in all walks of life. Where will that leave our youth? For at the moment we can compete with them only in the social line....will this ability save us from peril?

How are we preparing our youth for the future? Let us review our educational system....is it ideal....does it equip youth for all eventuality in the future, does it train them to be self-supporting citizens or does it only cater for the old-fashioned "three R's"?

The scope for technical workers is tremendous in this practically new Colony....the crystal shows a vast number of industries coming up in the future. By whom will they be staffed? Well between you, me, and the lamp-post they will be staffed by those who have been trained for the jobs.

The Crystal also shows a lot of girls twiddling their thumbs....Why? Because they have not had any specific training for any occupation or trade, and cheaper labour has usurped their clerical positions.

Get a move on, you girls and boys, make hay while the sun shines, and get into some specific line, trade or occupation that is the only way to defy Dame Fortune. Well what are you going to do about it? Or is there going to be a rush for ship "stabilizers" ....well you can never tell, the future is so unpredictable, isn't it?

Comments

MORE photos of cricketers in Kenya added

More cricket photos added! Asians v Europeans, v Tanganyika, v Uganda, v East Africa, Rhodesia, etc some names missing! Photo Gallery of Kenya Cricket 23 photos: CM Gracias, Blaise d'Cunha Johnny Lobo! Ramanbhai Patel, Mehboob Ali, Basharat Hassan and hundreds others.

Pinto: Blood on Western and Kenyan hands

BOOK REVIEW Pinto: Blood on Western and Kenyan hands Review by Cyprian Fernandes Pio Gama Pinto, Kenya’s Unsung Martyr 1927-1965 Edited by Shiraz Durrani [Vita Books, Kenya, 2018, 392 pp. Pbk, £30, ISBN 978-9966-1890-0-4; distributed worldwide by African Books Collective, www.africanbookscollective.com ] Less than two years after independence from the British, on 24 February 1965, the Kenyan nationalist Pio Gama Pinto was gunned down in the driveway of his Nairobi home. His young daughter watched helplessly in the back seat of the family car. Pinto, a Member of Parliament at the time, was Kenya’s first political martyr. One man was wrongly accused of his death, served several years in prison and was later released and compensated. Since then no one has been charged with the murder. Now the long-awaited book on Pio Gama Pinto is finally here, launched in Nairobi on 16 October 2018....

Celly Dias: one of Uganda's greatest sportsmen

Celly Dias One of Uganda’s greatest sportsmen By Norman Da Costa Celly Dias will be remembered for his excellence on and off the field. He used his creativity and skills to get to the top. Then he turned his attention indoors and again mastered the intricacies of each sport to reign supreme. Celly was a legend in Uganda and his impact on the field was immediate and profound. He enjoyed the best of two worlds – indoors and outdoors - and even his opponents admired him and spoke in glowing terms of this sportsman. He was a sportsman in the true real sense of the word. Having met and interviewed some of the greatest sportsmen during my career in Kenya and later in Canada one thing that struck me about Celly was that he reminded me of tennis ace Roger Federer - humble and down-to-earth. Celly, who passed away at the age of 94, still followed every sport closely and would analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a batsman or a bowler. This isn’t surprising as Celly p...

www.headlinesofmylife.today

Search This Blog