Women and youths of Western Kenya are dormant in politics

The main political parties in Kenya have now re-organized themselves for electoral competition to garner different political positions come next year. This is so given that next year will be a year of change in political leaderships in Kenya through a general election. Candidates and flag-bearers for different parties and different regions as well as communities have been identified. The two main political parties are already in a shape for a fierce race in competition for state house. They have already identified presidential candidates and respective running mates. Unfortunately, they are all men. No woman is going to participate in the election as a presidential candidate or as a running mate to the presidential candidate. Reasons are obvious; a persistent culture of strongly entrenched social patriarchy.

More worse is the western region of Kenya. It is the region where women and the youths are most excluded from socializing in the mainstream politics. Sad enough, it is the most populated; it is estimated to be the home of twelve million people out of the total population of forty million Kenyans. It means that fifty percent of the registered voters come from this region, and out of this the youths and women make three quarters of the registered voters.