Kom is NOT for Sale

Bobe Fra,

I can't thank you enough for re-posting this.
I thought I was repeating myself.
But no.

I think Bobe Paschal wrote in a recent post:
"Kom is NOT for sale."
Everyone born a wulKom
should be able to repeat that statement
with 100% confidence.

But then I asked myself:
how is that true, when it is an outsider
who signs the papers and puts markers
on the ground for pieces of KomLand?
Is there a risk that, as we speak,
Kom is being quietly sold piecemeal?

The whole idea of an outsider
giving orders in Kom is a disabling
factor in development. In other words,
it says (without words) that the entire
Kom population does not have the
wherewithal to manage its own people
and resources, so "we will give you
an outsider to help you". That is entirely
FALSE, and when people come to their
senses, they will realize it is a very
counter-productive idea: in fact,
a human stamp of neo-recolonization,
placing an outsider in charge of the
affairs of an indigenous African
community that ran its own affairs
for most of its history.
It is nonsensical.

But, not to throw the baby out with the
bath water, we need KOMrades
trained and ready, with the necessary skills
to manage our resources, going forward.
If we cannot manage our own backyard,
then whose backyard are we managing?
You tell me.

Note: these are just questions from
someone who does not know the real situation.
But I also want to make the point that
every KOMrade is entitled to answers
to questions about our homeland.
Or not? You tell me.

iBoisɨ
~wv

— Wanaku Verdzekov