The Influence of Culture

Bitange Ndemo writing in Business Daily:
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....Shinobu Kitayama demonstrates that culture can influence what appears to be a very deep part the human mind, something that happens automatically and continuously. Unfortunately, African cultures have been distorted beginning from the colonial era to the present. We have never delinked from our oral past to present day print and electronic. There is no repository of our cultures.

What we have is a hodgepodge of cultures that lead to nothing but total confusion and a hindrance to economic progress. Our moral code even within the religious circles is inconsistent with the level of trust we need to propel ourselves from economic abyss.
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