Be your brother's keeper, we all belong to one indivisible family

A police water canon during the Azimio mass protests. [Denis Kibuchi, Standard]

The ongoing political standoff should make us reflect more profoundly on the opening words of the preamble of our Constitution. "We, the people of Kenya''. In this single sentence, we are reminded that despite administrative and geographical boundaries, regardless of differences of faith and ethnicity, disparities of wealth and social status, we all belong to one indivisible family; Kenya.

The Kenyan family must consciously come together in moments such as these to ensure that we are not consumed by the rabid hate of savages. We should intelligently and creatively join in integrating disparate parts of ourselves in creating more just more tolerant and cohesive nation. We should build for ourselves a country that is constantly in touch with the path it has travelled, its missteps and miscalculations, that are always too common in the history of every country and more most fundamentally, its grandest vision.