Kenya at her Historic Tribal Best

Recent developments and appointments to key government position brought back the emotive tribal debate to the fore. Both critics and detractors are waxing lyrical and defensive with all shades of opinions to support their case. Bu all said and done, tribalism remains the singular malady whose nasty consequences continue to eat into both our conscience and moral fabric.

There is no justification to vilify Kibaki or protect him provided we understand the generation and school of thought he was weaned on. It's total waste of breathe and I would humbly suggest to you Kenyans with a future to look upto to tackle the root cause of this cancer. I am not naive to its prevalence and I know it will take ages to correct but we would be dancing ourselves lame before scoundrels for politicians who sold our soul for cheap populism and expediency.

It is the height of utter insensitivity to brand dimwits professors of politics just because they cause so much bloodshed. On the same vein, what is this madness to jump to the defence of academic dinosaurs whose economic models can't be programmed i any known language?
Spare us the balderdash please and lest seize the opportunity slipping between our fingers to address TRIBALISM. I speak my mother tongue with pride, but the identity end there and I wouldn't care a hoot if the language belonged to the apes.

We are all born equal and any sense tribal superiority is not only a farce but living a lie at best.
True, Kikuyus constitute more than 1 fifth of Kenyans. But you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see the disparity. Stop insulting the collective intelligence of Kenyans. We know negative 'sms, when see one and amount of unsolicited level 100 series of lectures will wash.
Granted, even in a cosmopolitan morgue you are more likely to find more Kuks than Digos but management of public affairs doesn't take such a simplistic version of reasoning. Kenya belongs to all of us and anybody indulging in self-deception that they belong more than others are busy erecting castles on quicksand.

You don't need to be psychic to decode the arrogance and loaded ignorance lurking behind every comment that pretends to exorcise and rationalize the tribal devil.

We are simply, conveniently and unwittingly packaging stereotypes with lofty but empty phrases. Ours is a superlative act of intellectual dishonesty. An argument takes a typical Kenyans turn when you start seeing magnified side shows being prominently elevated to the VIP table of ideas. We can continue bandying all the existing tired catch words while we conveniently let the tribal virus mutate within at our collective peril.

Kibaki is Kenya's president and you can't pocket him unless you entertain the self-deception of 'ni wetu' ilk. Being a public figure, he can't afford to avoid visitation by flies patronizing the beautiful road he strolling on. Trivializing and tribalizing weighty matters takes the wind off our moral sail and we become no better than the pilloried scoundrels we pass as politicians. We are a betrayed generation and no amount of peddling of street wisdom will rescue us from this hole unless we take an honest hard look at ourselves and work together towards reclaiming out nationhood and motherland.