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Let's heed Obama’s wise counsel, shun divisive politics

Former United States President Barack Obama 

In his maiden visit to Kenya as United States President in July 2015, Barack Obama reminded Kenyans that politics based solely on tribe and ethnicity is doomed and can tear a country apart. He described such politics as a failure of imagination.

He further praised Kenyans for choosing to be defined, not by the hatred of the past following the 2007/08 post-election violence that left scores dead and thousands of others uprooted from their homes, but charting a new destiny by enacting one of the most progressive constitutions in the world, the 2010 Constitution.

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