BY Omar Kalinge
The first challenge is in the definition. There is no agreed definition of nation-building. A 2003 study by James Dobbins and others for the RAND Corporation defines nation-building as “the use of armed force in the aftermath of a conflict to underpin an enduring transition to democracy.”

“The ideas imparted by education or released in the mind through education should therefore be liberating ideas.
The skills acquired by education should be liberating skills. Nothing else can properly be called education.”
(Dr. Julius K. Nyerere, Former President of Tanzania )

It is with great honor that I send my heart most greetings to all Luo communities around the world. It is indeed great to be a true son of one of many Luo subgroups across the Great Lakes Luo Nations of East Africa.
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