Boxing Day has always been a day of unboxing gifts received during Christmas Day if any. It has always been a public holiday in Kenya and many other parts of the world. Now, boxing day renamed in Kenya.
The Kenya Cabinet just sat and of all problems troubling us such as: unemployment, high standards of living, low wage rates, extreme poverty, cancer epidemic and poor road networks and mental health issues they decided to prioritize the change of a name from boxing day to Huduma Day!
That was it, they had spent a day building the nation, if I can borrow a line from a poem I read in High School.
I’m seated at a restaurant in one of the people’s settlements in Nairobi and keenly observing Nairobians as they move around celebrating a day which they may not be aware that its name changed.
Just as many holidays before – Jamhuri Day, Mashujaa Day, Madaraka and Labor Day among others this is the day when many men get a chance to carry their babies and walk around town with their wives as a sign of love and a proof that family is the core unit of a society.
Despite the name change, nothing has changed. It is still “Boxing Day” for me and many others out there!
History reminds us that this is not the first time a government of the day is changing the name of a public holiday. A wise author of one of the books in the Bible’s New Testament would have said that “there is nothing new under the sun, it is chasing after the wind.”
As we wrote yesterday in another article, the Soviet Union tried to suppress Christmas by Changing its name to Winter Holiday and even replacing the main character who is associated with Christmas – Santa Claus- to Father Frost. They went a step further and created an assistant for that Father Frost.
I think this was lack of originality. The Soviets were plagiarizing the Christmas celebration concept without shame! I am not trying to fight the Soviets here but I am express my views about their lack of originality.
However, unlike Kenya where we are changing the name of “Boxing Day” without any ideological reason, the Soviet revolutionaries were fighting Christianity and they wanted communism to be the only ideology and even the only religion!
Our Kenyan brothers and sisters who sit in the Cabinet just wanted to show us that they are busy working for us. What they were working on notwithstanding!
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I refuse to celebrate “Huduma Day” I am celebrating “boxing day!”
