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The common narrative that our politics is ethnic centred is a fallacy. Of course we have ethnic tensions and traditionally discourse spinning around ethnic power configurations, but this does not make our politics tribal.
True, we vote based on ethnic lines but that does not mean our political culture is structurally ethnic. Closer scrutiny shows that Kenya’s politics has an appearance of ethnicity, but it is actually ideological — it is only packaged in ethnic colours.
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