Stop ‘ethnic’ race to bottom and grow Project Kenya

The campaign season is in full swing as politicians mobilise their voting blocs to register. And because our national elections are essentially ethnic censuses, the patterns of mobilisation have been purely ethnic. It is true that as a country we have been made to think this is normal, and just the way things work. But I would like to remind us that the naked practice of ethnic politics is something that should not be normalised. We should still demand basic decency and respect from our politicians.

Perhaps the most tragic thing about negative ethnicity in Kenyan politics is our blind acceptance of its inevitability. Our education system does precious little to educate our people of the malleability of ethnic identities; or the fact that a good chunk of our population is composed of multi-ethnic individuals.