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Kenyans must confront country’s dark past if we are to genuinely reconcile

The message we knew. The person we knew. The problem we had lived with: tribalism and the illusion of national cohesion in Kenya.

What really happened last Sunday as US President Barack Obama spoke is that, for the first time in the national psyche in this country, people were ready to accept the message because the messenger was believable, acceptable and credible. The question is: What follows after Obama has gone? What do we do in view of the fact that we have finally been enlightened on the road to Damascus?

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