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Ah, these modern ways of relationships!

When it comes to relationship between members of opposite sex, I envy the young man still growing his wings under my roof before he flies off on his own to the waiting wide, wide World out there.

He is the same person who now and then wears enough decent, and properly fitting, clothes for people to recognize him as the second born child of Mzee Chesi Mpilipili!

I envy him because as opposed to what we, his parents, went through regarding matters of the heart, technology is allowing him to start and end relationships with the opposite sex with a single push of the ‘send’ button on his mobile phone!

He laughs when he hears that ‘centuries’ ago when one met a maiden he though something might develop between him and her, it all depended on the ‘memory chip’ in the head of the maiden.

Usually, the maidens of those days memory ‘chips’ were nothing to write home about when it came to remembering important dates and time such as the day and time to meet you!

Yes, you met a maiden and politely asked her if she could meet you somewhere appropriate because you had something very important to tell her.

She pored over her imaginary diary on her head for some hours before telling you that she could meet you at 1400 hours the coming Sunday, which was six days away, at the Mnazi Mmoja garden!

So at 1200 hours the said Sunday you were smartly sitting at the Mnazi Mmoja grounds waiting for the Maiden. At 1600 you were still looking at the ‘Man’ silently beating his drum in the centre of the Mnazi Mmoja garden, but the maiden was still nowhere to be seen. There was no mobile phone to ask her if she will be coming or not!

At 1800 you decided to call it a day and you went home dejected, turning at every other step to see if she was behind you, straining your innocent neck in the process!

Two weeks later you met the maiden who when you asked her why she did not honor your appointment, replied easily that she had forgotten about it! Just like that.

This process could be repeated up to four times before out of the blue, the memory chip on her head functioned properly and she remembered, met and listened to your love nothings and asked you to give her time to consider your ‘application’, a process which normally took three weeks to three months! Looking for a job was much, much easier.

Indeed, by the time the maiden was truly your girlfriend and you could introduce her as so to your friends, you had aged considerably.

The dotcom person living under my roof is laughing when he hears this because he does not need to wait at the Mnazi Mmoja garden for five hours just to start a relationship with a maiden he is interested in.

In this age of science and technology, when he meets a girl he thinks something might develop (and they are many!), he just exchanges mobile phone numbers with her, through the day let his fingers do the ‘talking’ through messaging and by evening of the same day the two are already a couple!

He may laugh but I seem to have the last laugh because when the maidens of our time finally accepted to be our one and only, it would take several friends committees and peace talks’ vikaos for her to break off the relationship.

The dotcom persons are not so lucky. Their modern maidens can break off relationship simply by sending him a message on his mobile phone telling him ‘chukua time yako!’ or ‘achana na mimi!’ or other modern words to that effect, and that is that!

I may envy the dotcom person on how easily he can start a relationship yes, but I also feel sorry on how the modern relationship can end just as much easier.

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Give the Musical Caesar what is his...!

A long time ago, someone with a big clout on religious matters is said to have advised earthlings on monetary matters by telling them to render to Caesar things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that were God’s.

He is also quoted as to have advised the same earthlings as to how impossible was it to serve two masters, for either you would hate one and love the other if not being loyal to one and despising the other. That you definitely cannot serve God and EPA.

He insisted on this by saying that till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one little will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. His very words.

That was then. Now, in these modern times there are some things happening regarding praising the great man of religious matters which are making some of us traditional believers wish that the Great Teacher should have also said something on how to worship the Lord.

Yes, we are wishing that he had said something like ‘render to the Musical Caesar things that are Musical Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.

By saying ‘Musical Caesars’ I mean the top men of the music industry at the time the great man was teaching proverbs to his apostles and worshippers.

His advice would have definitely helped in these modern times in which we are seeing our religious singers singing and dancing religious songs in a way that is no different to the songs which are normally sung only by the heathens!

We are now witnessing our modern religious choirs singing and dancing away in the styles of the said gentile’s ndombolo and kwasakwasa inside our holy houses of worship and recording DVDs which we buy at more exorbitant ant price than what we pay for the ndombolo and kwasakwasa DVDs!

And it gets even more confusing when on the other side of the coin you now can hear local ndombolo bands singing songs in which the Lord’s Prayer is the main stanza. You wonder at that kind of a song being sung in Bars an at drunkards!

Indeed, gone are the traditional liturgy days when ‘singing’ meant aged members of the congressional only swaying gently this way and that as they sung soul-searching and soothing songs while an even more aged mzee banged away at an even more aged huge mahogany Organ which could not be played by anybody else in the whole village but him!

It is no more. For most of our modern gospel singers, singing means the choir members sometime gyrating to the sound of their modern religious music in a way that not only puts to shame to ndombolo dancers but are also making the traditional singers of old turn into their graves on seeing how houses of worship are now being more of entertainment places than of worship.

This, so we are told, is done in order to move with time and to connect with our young generation. They are telling us this as if the said young generation will be doing any better worshiping than their old men.

They maybe right but as the Teacher would have said; verily, verily I say unto them, they are going against the teachings of the Lord himself which says God’s word has no modernity.

This means that they are obliged to give God what is God’s and give the Musical Caesar what is Musical Caesar’s, because you just cannot serve two Masters. Gospel and Ndombolo.

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