Mr President, take the challenge of nationhood, Kenyans will follow you

By Barrack Muluka
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Congratulations, fellow Kenyans on our country’s fiftieth birthday. I should have loved to say ‘on our nation’s fiftieth birthday.’ However, I am not so sure that we have become a nation. We have travelled through time just managing, somehow, to live together. The challenge of nationhood remains intact. It remains as it was in the months after independence, when Tom Mboya put together his speeches in a volume so titled – The Challenge of Nationhood.