Africans In China

I wish to every Burundian to live once abroad, may it be for a short period . One of the most frustrating thing is to meet a Muzungu who knows Burundi. Who knows all about that civil war which have ravaged Burundi. Are you a hutu or tutsi ? That’s what he is likely to ask when your attention and all your eyes and heart are focussed on that beautiful girl at left, ignoring everybody else around.

If you are a Tutsi, it may be even more irritating. He is likely to pronounce Tutsi in a way it sounds like igitutsi (insult). And if u dare say Yes I m Tutsi and u are as short as me, u will get more questions than a terrorist being interrogated by American police: why u are u not tall, how come those Hutu got crazy and wanted to kill you … If you are like me and I know some are, you won’t even remember to ask for the phone number of the girl before you leave .

An other nightmare is meeting a Japanese girl who have watched Hotel Rwanda, the famous movie about Rwandan genocide. Make a mistake and say u are Tutsi, the next question is weather u will ever go back home and live at home again. Say again yes and u will never get her on the phone one more time. But that has a very quick efficient solution and don’t forget it: say that you were Kenyan before your father or ur mom(whoever comes in mind )  moved to Burundi and that Obama is your cousin. If u say it without hesitating the next step is to take care of the rest. Who said I don’t know how to catch girls ? It’s just because the priest at church said it’s a sin. Do it in that way and the success is granted.

Do I want to say that Hutu feel more better when abroad than Tutsi? It may be true but that’s not what I meant. The only Burundian enjoying the status of having a burundian citizenship when abroad are girls. Yes I mean girls, les Barundikazi. Burundian girl or Umurundikazi is no more no less than beautiful. Burundi means a country with the world most beautiful girls ever. Either one doesn’t know Burundi or he does know that Burundian girls are beautiful. Say that u are having many little sisters and some are planning to visit you in the near future .Especially if u are talking to a Nigerian, your mouth won’t be dry, if the bar has not got a good champagne, u will be kindly and politely invited to switch to that one which has, no matter how expensive it is.

The question is how to make money from this ? Yes I ask money. We have got that gift and we need to make money. What use to have many minerals in Katanga when Katanga people are among the poorest in the world. Does learning that their area is very rich in minerals make them feel happy ? We need to profit from a gift we have got freely. I m not talking about prostitution, I m a Christian. But we shall find an other way.

Don’t think foreigners are looking ahead to date burundian girl. I asked to a friend who have been to Bujumbura if he would like to have a burundian wife. He said no. Why ? I asked. It would be a problem, I know I would be having visitors all the time. He answered.

But think about it and come up with a solution. Any suggestion is welcomed, you can post it as a comment or send me an email at daniel@rugamba.com

Ir. Daniel

Hey guys,

I m very happy that many people are reading my blog. Google analytics showed me that I have received 320 visits from 29 countries within 3 days . The good news is that 69 of them are visits from Burundi; the mountainous beautiful country in the heart of Africa, the country of Rugamba Rutanganzwa, Runyonga et Samandari wa Mandaranga, the home of, Gustave and the world most famous drummers ever. Who said we don’t use internet in Burundi?  No need to mention that Burundi is also the home of world most beautiful women, that’s deserve to be an other topic.

I m very happy of that. Currently my blog domain names are www.daniel.rugamba.com, www.blog.rugamba.com

To make life easier for my audience, I have given to my blog a new domain name : www.gakiza.com

You can use it to access my blog.

Thanks for visiting my blog again

Daniel

I received some complains from some anonymous people regarding my blog.

The guy said I m violating people’s private life but he/she didn’t explain further except keeping insulting me. If anyone feels unhappy or just want me to change in somehow, feel free to contact me. I m not going to answer to anonymous people anymore . If there is any contents on my blog u judge offending, let me know. The intent of this blog is not to offend anybody. I m not refusing that I may have caused some damages to some people, but I also need to know it. While I promise to apologize if true, I don’t promise you to keep quite for next time.

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” Warren Buffett.

This quotation from the world richest guy says it all. If you are doing every thing right, you are doing nothing.  However, I encourage and ask everyone to keep giving me advices, even insults if that is what you have.

But when u do it , remember to give valid contact details, emails like personal@life.man will have no answer and their comments will not be published.

Thanks very much for ur cooperation .

Daniel

On this page, you will find some of my favorite African quotes and proverb.

—AFRICAN PROVERB

A hyena cannot smell its own stench. ( Umupfu ntiyinukira)
From colonel Muamar Kadhafi

“For 40 years all the summits have failed, our micro-states have no future.”

“Let those who are hesitating [for the creation of a United states of Africa], get out of our way”

- « Si vous ne réalisez pas l’union, des millions d’hommes et de femmes vont vous écraser. »

-« L’Afrique est à vous et ne comptez sur personne pour bâtir votre avenir. »

-”The Libyans said they’ll buy their way out of these three black lists. We’ll pay so much, to hell with $2 billion or more. It’s not compensation. It’s a price. The Americans said it was Libya who did it. It is known that the president was madman Reagan who’s got Alzheimer’s and has lost his mind. He now crawls on all fours.”

From Mandela

-« I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. »

-«If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.. »

-«It always seems impossible until its done. »

-«It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.»

-«When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.»

Bishop Desmond Tutu quotes

-“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
-“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
-“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
-“I don’t preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t say, “Now is that political or social?” He said, “I feed you.” Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.”
-“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”
-“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”
-“Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.”

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda

-”You kept quiet… When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet. ”

-”There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.”

-”We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. ”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A right delayed is a right denied.”

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ”

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brothe”"rhood. ”

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

“I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. ”

“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. ”

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ”

“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. ”

“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ”

Shakespeare

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”

1. Quote or Proverb of the day:

“There are two fools in every market—one asks too little, another asks too much.”

Russian quote

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”

Warren Buffett

No Comments: just meditate on it yourself

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Hello Guys,

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Suite aux e-mails me demandant comment inserer les videos de la torture de Kadege par police presidentielle burundaise, je vais mettre le code necessaire ici

N.B : comme ca casse le design de mon blog, je l’ai enlever mais il reste dsponible sur demande par email a daniel@rugamba.com

Copier et coller le code ci-dessu et placer le a l’endroit (comme dans un div ou TD ) ou vous souhaiter les videos apparaitre. Si vous voudriez avoir un player de couleur differente, envoie moi un email a daniel@rugamba.com

Merci.

Daniel

To view the video in full screen , click here.

Aujourd’hui je vais comme certains des compatriotes parler de ce qui se passe au pays de Cambarantama , la nation nous leguee par Rushatsi et Rugamba le Burundi bwa Nyaburunga, Runyonga, Ngomayasacega et Samandari. Vive le Burundi.

Depuis 2005, comme peut-etre vous le savez, le Burundi est dirige par un president qui differe des autres presidents qui ont dirige le Burundi sur beaucoup de points:

- Il est democratiquement elu ,

- Il est chretien “Born again”,

-Il est footbaleur,

-Il est un ancien robel,

-Il aime planter les avocats,

-Il donne des conferences en directe sur la radio,

- Il aime les travaux communautaires,

-Il a construit une maison a la mama de Ndadaye,…

Il est aussi le premier Hutu dans l’histoire du pays a diriger le pays pendant plus de deux ans ( Pardon a Ndayizeye, c’etait la transition)

On peut dire que le Burundi est dans une autre ere de son histoire. Un Hutu qui dirige, qu’on appelle SEBARUNDI sans grincer des dents, c’est quand meme un progres.

Meme si certains parlent d’un regime le plus corrompu de l’histoire du Burundi,le plus a blamer pour les violations des droits de l’homme, un gouvenement qui utilise la justice comme arme contre l’opposition, je ne partage pas l’idee que le gouvernement Nkurunziza soit le pire des pires.

Attends je me defends, et avant je dois vous dire que je ne suis pas le Daniel que certains ( comme Rukindikiza par ex.) appelle a tord ou a raison le “griot” du CNDD-FDD. J’ai pas ete paye par quiconque mais si quelqu’un trouve que je merite quelque chose, ehhhhhhhhhhhh.

Alors que fait le regime Nkurunziza que les autres regimes n’ont pas fait?

Vous allez me parler de Muyinga, de Kinama , de Falcon 50, de SINANKWA ou des 22 deputes (Violation de la constitution? : Je compatis avec les 22 deputes radies illegalement de l’assemblee nationale mais je dois quand meme vous rappeler que des conseils de salut national ont jete a maintes reprises la constitution dans la poubelle .) .

Stop ! D’autres regimes avant Nkuru ont fait de plus grave que ca. Seulement, on avait pas encore RPA, ISANGANIRO pour ne citer que ces medias pour nous rapporter les faits. Rufyiri n’etait peut-etre pas encore ne du temps de Micombero pour nous faire le bilan de la corruption.

Faut-il faire un parallelisme entre les anciens regimes et le regime Nkurunziza pour vous montrer que les pratiques ( mauvaises pratiques) actuelles datent d’Antan?

Je ne vais pas m’y attarder, vous pouvez me dire qu’on n’avance pas mais je peux vous demontrer qu’on ne recule pas non plus.

Mais quand meme faut-il avouer, il y a des nouveautes.

Parmi les nouveautes, celle qui a retenu mon attention concerne l’affaire du Coup d’Etat de l’annee passee, qui a envoye les anciens dignitaires dans la maison la plus solide et peuplee de Musaga : Mpimba.

De quelle nouveaute?

Des gens accuse d’atteinte a la securite publique?

C’est bien sur une pratique plus vielle que moi. C’est l’infraction que nous tous avons commis par defaut semble-t-il . C’est un peche originel. Chacun de nous doit etre pret a se defendre la documentation demande.

La torture ?

Ohhh, qui a parle deux fois avec le policier, ne soit-il pas d’une police presidentielle sans encaisser quelques couts ? Faut-il que ca cesse ? Et bien si tu es courageux comme ces gens des ligues Iteka et APRODH, tu peux t’amuser en attendant bien sur ton tour. Mais je te rassure, c’est demander trop. Une fois ton tour arrive, je te conseille de faire comme ce Mutwa qui, se santant tres menace avec des couts de points, il dit: ” Erega murancangira n’amakofe”. Une telle demande a plus de chance de reussir que les “Ngirira ikigongwe” de Kadege.

De mon point de vu, la nouveaute, c’est pas les tortures? Ce sont les tortures televisees, photographiees.

Je peux me tromper mais de ma connaissance, je crois que c’est la premiere fois qu’un regime mette sur video ses crimes.

Si vous n’y croyez pas cliquer ici

C’est une realite, la torture de Kadege , l’ancien vice president de la Republique par la police presidentielle est sur les cassettes video. Qui etait le Cameraman? Et c’est gratuit. Passez a Bujumbura, avec tes 2$, on te fait une copie. Juste les frais de te graver un DVD et c’est fini.

Il faut peut-etre vous rassurer, la police presidentielle ne demande pas des droits d’autheur pour le film produit. C’est gratuit. Du jamais vu. Meme les mises en scene, on paie quand meme. Mais pour des couts reels c’est gratuit.

La question que je me demande n’est pas de savoir pourquoi la police de Nkurunziza a torture Kadege, mais de savoir pourquoi elle a mis sur le marche le film. Pourquoi on a produit le film? Pour le chef?

C’est raisonnable d’amener les preuves que la mission a ete accomplie comme convenue. Mais pourquoi on a mis le film sur le marche? Si on vendait le film, ca serait aussi raisonable: la police presidentielle serait entrain de trouver des moyens de s’autofinancer ( Kwiyungunganya). Que le film soit produit sur des frais et donne gratuitement pour amuser la galerie alors que ca ne sert pas a redorer l’image du pays, c’est ca que je ne comprends pas.

Qui n’a pas entendu differentes histoires sur la facon dont on a tue Ndadaye? Peut-etre que le chef a aussi un film mais on devra attendre pour savoir laquelle des versions qu’on a entendues est vraie.

Pourquoi le regime Nkurunziza fait ca ?

Je vous mets le DVD en ligne prochainement.

Merci et bonne journee.

N.B: pas d’accent: priere de m’en excuser.

Daniel

A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.

A SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.

AN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So what?

AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous.

A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk.

A FASCIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage.

DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the milk down the drain.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

A BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. They are mad. They die. Pass the shepherd’s pie, please.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are. You break for lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows and the American corporation declares bankruptcy.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship both of them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported on them.

AN ISRAELI CORPORATION: There are these two Jewish cows, right? They open a milk factory, an ice cream store, and then sell the movie rights. They send their calves to Harvard to become doctors. So, who needs people?

AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION: You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.

It’s Sunday the end of the week.  I m going back to work tomorrow. I had a good time with the Philipino’s choir at Saint Peters Church.  I will add pictures as soon as I buy a camera.

Thanks to  Philbert, Ildephonse, Mingli and Blaise for the visit, we had a good time. See you next week-end . It’s time to sleep see u tomorrow .

Daniel

Hello from Daniel

Thanks God, I have finally decided to lunch this blog. After years of hesitations.

This blog which is officially lunched today (5th July 2008 ) will be a place where I will be sharing every moment I m spending on this planet with you and the generations to come. I’ve had wonderful moments with friends or alone with my computer or in that adoration room at Saint Peters Church room 111. However, I’ve been keeping all of it in myself and now can’t take the risk of exploding with it any more. I’ve decided to share it with u guys.

My blog will be in English and some Kirundi maybe in case my mom would ask. No French please. I have an English key board and after six years far from french accents, writing french with my english keyboard is a nightnmare and I m not going to complicate my life because of that.

I don t also care of my english syntax, as long as u can understand what I write, it’s ok for me. This blog is not a good reference for those who want to improve their english.

My articles will be covering my daily life and my opinions about what I see here and there.

Thanks and many thanks for reading my blog