Editor,I wholeheartedly agree with the author. However I have one concern: How are going to achieve the preservation of our culture when most of us are incapable of making a distinction between pre-colonial customs from post-colonial ones? And any thinking person would agree that they are very much dissimilar in every aspect.
Editor,I wholeheartedly agree with the author. However I have one concern: How are going to achieve the preservation of our culture when most of us are incapable of making a distinction between pre-colonial customs from post-colonial ones? And any thinking person would agree that they are very much dissimilar in every aspect. Most people nowadays couldn’t name one component of our customs prior to the advent of the Germans and Belgians. We are very quick to shout what our culture was NOT but the opposite is far from true.The minute we see something that we deem strange or we disapprove of, we throw our hands up and scream that it’s "un-Rwandan”. So where do we begin? Thank you.Shabaka, Toronto,CanadaReaction to David Nkusi’s commentary, "Why our culture should be jealously preserved”, (The New Times, June 20)