We are balkanising the country through our utterances and actions

There’s an attempt to re-create apartheid in Kenya. Only this time race isn’t the defining identity. It’s the political party. But I should clarify. Political parties and regions, or counties, are closely related to ethnicity. In a sense, therefore, political party zoning is an attempt to create tribal, or ethnic apartheid.

The political elite has conflated aspects of devolution — to counties — with a mandate to create ethnically-pure enclaves. I concede that part of the problem is how the framers of the Constitution drew up Kenya’s political map.