You got to read this one!! speaking of aids!!

[Guest guest]

The Usione So 'miss-wash'

You know why? Although such jingles sound like a lethal gun to me,

and perhaps to most effective communicators, they appear to be non-

lethal. They look like real morale boaster Aids' war songs, but to

our young men and ladies they are like soothing lullabies like in the

film " Love-nest. "

In my view, Usione So, is a song of evil, because it has an effective

impact to lead our youth, the dotcom generation, towards the

threshold of love nests. It's simple and pure miss-wash and this is

the line of thought of my 'talk' today.

Although my 'talk' today does not intend to disparage the efficacy of

such kauli mbius, the energy and resources of Anti-Aids field

commanders, I'm only trying to show where the kauli mbius is a pure

washout and perhaps what could be a new approach.

Therefore, from the onset, for example, who coined the kauli mbiu

like Usione So sema naye? Yes, I'm posing this question because I'm

aware that the 'dotcoms' might have been involved in one way or the

other in coining, and this is the outcome.

Take a walk in the heart of Dar es Salaam or far afield, you'll be

greeted by giant billboards as they compete in disseminating Anti-

Aids messages. But come sunset, our towns and cities swing into love-

nesting orgies.

Let there be a tamasha or a fiesta, you'll see for yourself how our

dotcoms compete to win the hearts of whom they want Kusema Naye

without kuona So!

And if the tamasha is held either at the Leaders Club or the National

Stadium in Dar es Salaam, soon the scene of the fiesta turns into

Love nests.

The nests would spring up everywhere. In cars for the well to do,

from geti kalis to watoto pori, they would seek shelter even at

awkward places like under stationary cars for unsafe love matches!

Or rather if you get an opportunity to attend Aids seminars and

conferences you'll be thrilled by emotional speeches perhaps from

speaker after speaker. But there comes a break and soon those

emotionally charged speakers would behave as if one had descended

from another planet where news about Aids is like lullaby.

This time around the discussions would take a new bearing towards

kusema with whom you want without kuona so. To me such jingles are

sometimes laughable for occasionally our emotionally charged

activists turn into hypocrites.

Now let's talk. Why do these slogans recharge our manhood and

womanhood towards lust? Or rather do these jingles deliver the right

message in order to influence our behaviour towards safe sex?

In my view, the usione so 'creations' may seem to fit well in the

dotcom generation and the slogan creators but have they made an

impact on the behavioural change of these creators?

It makes no sense, and it's not enough when these dotcoms senselessly

cram some lyrics from the Usione So while in fact we don't see any

significant decline in Aids infection. In fact, the reverse is true--

that Aids infection among the dotcom generation is on the increase.

I may not be able to produce statistical evidence to prove

my 'outbursts.' But it's everybody's guess that these jingles do not

effectively influence the behaviour of our young men and women

towards safe sex.

It might be something similar to Cheza Salama.com or the Usione sos

sensation, but frankly speaking more and more young men and women

continue to perish in the midst of these miss-wash jingles.

They perish not because they are not involved in creating Aids

deterring messages, but because they are involved in the creation of

weak jingles and 'stray bullets.'

For example, it does not do anything significant in curbing the rage

of the Aids pandemic, say, by delivering messages as funny

as " Ulevi+ngono equals Ukimwi? " or " One in every ten people has

Aids... "

" Karibu Kisarawe. Hapa pia kuna Ukimwi, " which means Welcome to

Kisarawe, in this place Aids is also present. Or " If you womanize

(man-nize) condomize..! "

The list may be endless, but I've several reasons

to support my argument.

One: It would appear that Aids infections were prevalent in areas

where men and women " drink and indulge sex. "

Or, Aids was prevalent in places where in every ten people one has

Aids.

Two: It may prove to be a wrong school of thought to argue that not

all men and women who don't drink but can make love, are free from

infection of the pandemic.

Like I've said in my previous presentations, on the ground, the

scourge is being fuelled by poverty, ignorance, politicking and

sexual powerlessness.

In my view, the war against Aids should be fought fiercely alongside

all issues that face the entire human race, notably, love, marriage,

money, social interactions and the determination to turn the Aids-

crisis into an opportunity of far reaching Anti-Aids campaigns.

Like one colleague put it to me the other day, " we need anti-Aids

messages that may prevent individuals from jumping off the wall but

to climb the wall instead. We need not to wage the crusade as if we

had planned for a short war but only to find it meeting at infinity

like parallel lines. " End of quote.

Our Aids messages campaigners behave as if they had envisioned the

war on Aids to be a short one. They only realise that the war and the

anti-Aids messages are stretching into an infinite nature.

Or rather do our sisters exercise any control over what their

menfolk's deeds like to spot a condom or not to. If the answer to the

above questions is no, then I'm worried the messages might not mean

anything to our sisters either.

Or let me put it this way; how many men have seen, let alone used, a

male condom? Or who has control over the use of the male condom? Who

may suggest its use? What is the implication if a married man, for

example, suggests the use of a condom to his wife or vice versa?

Again let me pretend to be gender sensitive. What is the implication

if a girl suggests the use of a condom to her boyfriend or sugar

daddy? I'm worried, such a suggestion may be contentious and, may

ignite a blood-bath.

I'm worried the suggestion could ignite a bloody war if a girl or

wife makes any suggestion to that effect to her boyfriend or husband.

They may go into an unprecedented war because none is 100 percent

aware that he/she is unfaithful to the other but only pretends to be

one.

Ironically, even a married woman can never imagine of asking her

husband to put on a condom, when she is pretty sure of his

unfaithfulness. Damn you hypocrites! So. What should be the new

approach?

Source: http://www.bcstimes.com/dailytimes/viewnews.php?

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