Jubilee's actions are undermining National Unity

By tradition, the African Man’s first allegiance is to his family, then his clan and lastly his tribe. Long before the Europeans partitioned Africa into regions that suited their economic and strategic needs oblivious of the complexity of the African culture, the highest level of the African man’s allegiance ended at his tribe. Allegiance to race and nations was foreign to the African Man and it was imposed on him by foreign masters. It was the Europeans who told us that a white man is different from a black man and that a Kenyan man is different from a Tanzanian Man. It’s the Europeans who came up with the whole notion of nations that cut through multiple diverse tribes in Africa and said we should live together under a democratic government. It’s therefore no surprise to see many African nations torn between tribal alliances and crumbling within such deep blurred lines. Kenya is no different, the things that have always held the lines together are under attack and the Jubilee government has been too consumed with preserving its survival to realize its efforts are burning down all the factors of national unity at the same time.

Through the civics class in elementary schools, Kenyans are taught about the factors that unite Kenyans which include; the presidency, the national language, the constitution, education, even resource allocation, and our social interactions.  Factors that undermine national unity include corruption, tribalism, nepotism and biased resource allocation. While these factors that undermine national unity have thrived and multiplied in scores that haven’t been seen in Kenya before, factors that promote national unity have been more undermined and almost certainly reduced into meaningless nuances under the Jubilee administration. While those in blind support of the government might question the neutrality of this analysis and choose to lay the weight of this situation on the opposition or deny the validity of it altogether, let’s remember that Jubilee is the government and keep a scholars mind as we look at  the Precedency as one these factors in detail.