I have read your email and I just felt I had to respond to your sentiments. You see the reason why the football African cup in Angola and the recently world cup in South Africa ceremonies were such full of pomp and color, is because people came out and made it happen. The reasons why our level of entertainment is the way it is, is because we dont utilize our talents although we are very good at criticizing and pointing fingers while we just sit at the bench and expect others to do something.
So, instead of pointing out the failures and how bogus the entertainment is, why dont you give us ideas and tips on what can be done to improve the situation. Furthermore, Susan Owiyo and others will continue entertaining guests at state functions as long as no one else comes up to improve on it.
The challenge is you and me, not them. They have done their part and maybe they need further guidance on how to improve it to the standards of how the ceremony at the World Cup was.
Before you start pointing out mistakes and faults, always appreciate the efforts that have already been made before u point a criticizing finger. If you note something is wrong, dont just dwell on it GIVE A SOLUTION.
I had an opportunity yesterday to watch bits and pieces of the 17th Edition of the African Senior Athletics Championships, opening ceremony !! well having watched the opening ceremonies of the football African cup in Angola and the recently concluded world cup , I was disappointed to tears !!! surely decades later we still stage some unsynchronized dances by our traditional dancers . you would expect that after so many years of doing the same thing there would be some value addition? All those music festival have brought nothing New????
Nigeria and south Africa have some great dances , you watch them and you think OMG im proud to be an African , so much effort is put ,from the dancing attire to the Choreography …just superb!!!!
Then why make susan owiyo and other local artist sing songs that half the crowd doesn't understand and worse make them use a poor sound system ? listening to this musicians was painful to say the least ,plus with such a crowd I bet people want to see more and not listen !! in this I mean see action like dance and not listen to music which they cant relate with ?it reminded me of some boring Kenyan government functions.
At least the kids who did that little dance that culminated in the formations of the African flag was OK it was highly charged and well Choreographed , of course leaving many of us wide mouthed with amazement …but its good to note while for Kenyans this was a new thing , its the norm in other events both in Africa and abroad .
What im saying is a lot more effort and investment should be made to add value to our products not just goods but services , more so in the entertainment industry ……..after all im sure we want to be more than just another poor African country .
Then another thing what's with our Kenyan politicians and reading speeches done for them word for word ? surely the speakers- in this case our beloved president, he sounded soooooooooo detached from the whole thing !!!!surely kibaki would have done well to at least try and ad- lib !!!! It was so boring to listen to him …. yet just the other day I was watching a show on KBC where they were discussing the world cup and saying how kenya should host one in 20 20soemthing !!! surely will we go far with this second hand mentality of ours ??? just a thought !!!
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