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Here's what the new 2027 voter looks like

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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.

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