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CommunityISSUE 36 APRIL 2025 31People don%u2019t drown because they got into water; they drown because water got into them. And that goes with the question %u2013 what are you allowing inside you?The bigger question for me, however, concerns the African narrative and the many %u201cwaters%u201d we allow daily into our lives as a continent, which are drowning our people and which most times we don%u2019t even pay attention to. We are not even conscious of these things, nor take them seriously when someone points them out to us. We seem to be on some sort of autopilot, remotely controlled from some foreign lands. As Africans, we tend to spend so much time on trivial things that add nothing in particular to our collective progress while blaming the other parts of the world for building their own lives using our riches. Take, for example, the Kenyan government unveiled a Saudi Model House to Prepare Kenyan Workers for Gulf Jobs. To speak clearly, this is where they train Kenyans who want to work as domestic workers in the Gulf nations. The house is set up like an average house in Saudi Arabia, and the purpose of the setup is to show these Kenyan workers how to %u201c%u2026 enhance their preparedness and marketability, giving them a competitive edge in the international job market,%u201d According to Alfred Mutua, Kenya%u2019s Labour Cabinet Secretary. In other words, prepare your people to work as domestic help in Arab homes. I thought slavery was ended, or maybe we just love to joke.In the minds of these government agencies that did this setup, they probably think they are intellectuals for making such a project. I think it%u2019s stupid and condescending to the Kenyan people. I think we need to do more to raise the consciousness of our people from the limiting and devastating mindset of servitude that just wants to put food on the table, and thus would do anything to make it happen, to being creators of systems that create accurate solutions that cater for the COMOROSRaising Conscious AfricansBy Samuel Phillips