The silences in NGO discourse

I am reading with delight the article by Issa Shivji on the Silences in NGO discourse and it is a brilliant pieces of work.

However, I feel that we tend to be caught in the same web of silence through our communication. Reading this document I strongly get convince that we are not talking to the people who matter in making things change. We continue talking to the CSO bureaucrats, government, academicians and the same donors who want to perpetuate the silence in the NGO discourse..... (OOPS! I am even doing it now!)

We need to communicate our views to the people and in a language they understand....We need to translate these articles haraka sana in Kiswahili and make them accessible to the wider public in East Africa. I know Issa may have written some in the Kiswahili papers in Tanzania, but we need to move beyond and make people interested in our analysis.