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Remembering pioneer author and politician, Grace Ogot

Bethwel Ogot at his home in Yala, Siaya County on March 18,2017 during a memorial service of his wife the late Grace Ogot. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

The ongoing political campaigns which have narrowed to sub-clans, could worsen  Kenya's  ethnicity woes and balkanise the country into smaller but  dangerous political cocoons,  renowned historian Professor Bethwel Ogot has warned.

Prof Ogot warns that if the trend is not reversed, Kenyans might soon be so divided that only the national identities and State boundaries will unite them.

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