It's time for Kenyans to fight against tribalism

Before and after almost every election, politicians transform us from peace loving united Kenyans into primitive tribal beings. After the 2007 election, we as a country paid the biggest price yet for this primitive ideologically empty politics. We lost around one thousand five hundred of our fellow Kenyans and over half a million lost their homes and property and became IDPs. Our economy was on its knees and our image as a nation was despicable. The international community had to come in and rescue the situation, we shall remain forever grateful for their quick and timely response and support to reunite us. But we also owe it to ourselves and all of humanity to never go back to that darkest moment of our history by breathing life into our national covenant.

Surely we did not and still don’t need any foreign expert or court to tell us what is ailing us as a nation; we all know it is our primitive tribal politics. I say primitive because there’s no better term to use to describe a deliberate decision by politicians to group us into tribal voting blocs, as the basis on which we determine who leads our nation and who doesn’t. It is a total shame whichever way you look at it.