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Let's campaign around issues not tribes

In virtually every election Kenya has held since the reintroduction of multi-party system, voters have been mobilised around tribes.

In the 1992, 1997 and 2007 elections, thousands of people living or doing business away from their ethnic origins were forced to flee for dear life. Some were killed in an orgy of violence. Their mistake was to belong to another tribe or political outfit.

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