Political parties have the right to kick out rebels

Internal political party upheavals are a manifestation of anarchy in a political environment gone wild. Politics in Kenya is guided by avarice rather than ideology, ample explanation for the stunted growth of democracy which, to all purposes and intents is a concept that we have totally failed to assimilate.

By our very own social orientation dating back to the pre-colonial era, African societies were more amenable to Autocracy. In clan groupings then, a dominant male held sway over everybody else. Women had no say. They existed solely for purposes of procreation and children were considered assets; the yardsticks by which a man’s wealth was measured. That has been so internalised that even today women still play second fiddle to men. Karl Marx explains our lack of progress thus; ‘anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included’.