Street families cannot be eradicated as long as we are a strained nation

In the wake of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2015, the African giant reawakening has been on everyone’s mouth. Everyone seems to recognize that the change that Africa needs is amongst us and will not to come from westerners or elsewhere. This perception closely follows the concept of lateral thinking where the solution to a nagging problem happens to be that simple idea that one toys with every day but views it as too obvious to be a solution to anything.

In the run up to the summit and President Obama’s visit, street families in Nairobi were rounded up and taken to a secluded location. Some people lauded the County Government for getting rid of that seemingly pollutant phenomenon while others mockingly dismissed the move as just a knee jerk reaction that was bound to fall flat on its face; as it has happened before. The fact is that street families are just a symptom of a deeper problem and not a problem themselves. The core issue here is family and community disintegration that has been occasioned by civilization. We therefore definitely need a reawakening of our once unshakable kinship bonds.