WELCOME, KALIBU, KARIBU I'm Emmanuel Sunlight Kirunda, author of The Fourth Heritage: How We Ugandans can Integrate Our Tribal, Religious and Colonial Heritages.
About the book
This
is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about the African
tribal mind and its interpretation of the world as dominated by
Eurocentric ideals.
In a brutally honest and yet reflective
writing, Mr. Kirunda offers his critique with a uniquely African
perspective. Written in the author's third language, English, this book
attempts to use simple yet powerful reasoning to advocate a paradigm
shift in the way Ugandans look at their tribal, religious and
European/Colonial heritages. In a style rare to many African writings,
Mr. Kirunda vividly describes his tribal life and the impact his
parents had on his worldview. He then offers an unusually cold and
intimate analysis of: the cultural confusion within the Uganda society,
his personal hypothesis of why the Americans, Germans and Japanese are
economically developed, the hindrances to development in Uganda, and
his personal creative proposal of The Fourth Heritage as a way to
integrate the triple heritages and also solve the fundamental
hindrances to development. In a very intellectually persuasive way, he
also generalizes that The Fourth Heritage can lead to a secular
morality founded on Kant's philosophy which is in agreement with both
the tribal culture and the western world. Lastly, in the appendix, Mr.
Kirunda offers a thrilling discussion of the scientific account of
humanity's origin in East Africa and what that means for the Ugandan
human heritage.
The Fourth Heritage: How We Ugandans Can Integrate Our Tribal, Religious and Colonial Heritages by Emmanuel Sunlight Kirunda