Before tribalism, It’s about extreme capitalism and elitism

Kenya’s political landscape has for a long time been defined and factually based on the exegesis of tribalism or rather on negative ethnicity. Well, perhaps it is high time that we endeavor as Kenyans and particularly scholars of this time to find out if the political divisions in our country are based on tribalism or on elitism.

I’m for the latter. In as much as the dragon of tribalism is real, the effects of capitalism and its twin of elitism are silent but extensively and deeply salient. A bitter truth and harsh reality that we cannot run away from as human beings is the fact that political leadership will never be a poor man’s contest, but the poor will be used as objects for attaining political power. That is an effect of the sweet yet bitter ideological dispensation of capitalism.