Let's dare to fight negative ethnicity

Issues that have very little to do with ethnicity suddenly become politicised. Such assertion was hard to contest as early as the mid-1960s. Today it is beyond dispute.PHOTO: COURTESY

The use of ethnicity for political growth is now a familiar phenomenon, having been used relentlessly and remorselessly by politicians to seek and retain powers.

Too often, the ethnic card is played to stir populism or to score political points.