Musicians promoting negative ethnicity

 

It is disheartening, sickening, and repugnant that in this day and age, and given the events of 2008 and seeing what fellow EAC State Rwanda went through, that musicians parading under an ethnic flag can produce lyrics dripping with hate and venom against a particular community.

Even worse, this music is being played in clubs, parties, weddings, and even some FM radio stations. They are spreading their message of hate, ethnic superiority, political exclusion, and elimination of a particular ethnic group.

That the music has been dedicated to a certain presidential aspirant – we would like to believe it was done without his blessings –  makes it even more chilling. To this date there are pictures and videos of the 2008 Naivasha killings that responsible media houses have not published or broadcast.

They depict what happens when politics is used to settle scores and turn communities against each other.

If this is the philosophy driving some of the presidential campaigns then there is every reason to worry about the General Election.

To this date, German composer Richard Wagner’s music is never played inside Israel, because his pieces were often played to Jewish prisoners of war on their way to the gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps.

Leaders must condemn the sentiments expressed by the local musicians in question, and denounce their dark agenda.