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Here's what the new 2027 voter looks like

 UDA's Mombasa Governor candidate Hassan Omar casting his vote at Kaderboy polling station in Mombasa County on August 29, 2022, during the election for the governor position. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Since most hustlers did not vote in 2022, they will triumph in the 2027 and 2032 polls. This group includes the 8 million who snubbed the August 9 general election. Millennial hustlers do not fit among the Gikuyu, Luo, Kalenjin, Kamba or Luhya tribes-they are a new ethnic group that will define politics in future.

Although 'tribe' seems most appropriate, hustlers are not a tribe but an ethnic group. Tribes consist of communities that share social, economic, religious, and mostly blood ties. A tribe has an identifiable leader. Hustlers have no blood ties, do not share a dialect, and lack a recognisable leader.

Politically speaking, tribes are 'nations'. Therefore, we have, for example, the Gikuyu nation, the Kamba nation, the Luo nation and so on. So, calling hustlers, a tribe is classifying them as a nation, which is smaller. Strictly speaking, Kenya is not a nation-it is a country consisting of over 40 nations (tribes).

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