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Political trouble? Dial your tribe

By PETER WANYONYI

You know it is election time in Kenya when ethnicity — or, as we call it here, tribe — suddenly leaps to prominence. Everything revolves around the tribe as electoral contests draw near. It is never about which tribe lived where 100 years ago, or ate what foods, or had what customs.

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