Except as a geographical appellation, Kenya as a nation does not stand as one. It is only but a country with the name Kenya. We are never a single conceptual unit but our tribes and ethnicity are. Kenyan anthropologists have failed to re-define and discuss a united Kenya.

Political parties have a different concept of times and leadership. The grand coalition government seems transcendental and trans-historical but the fact remains that we are still stuck in the murky waters of our generational tribes.It is strange that some of our leaders have started campaigns for the 2012 elections, only a few months after the post-election skirmishes!

Each ethnic community either feels inferior or superior and never equal to the other. The Kenyan mind sees one unifying human classification in more than forty-two different angles and cultural settings. Kenya is indeed divided into tribal segments of seasonal conflicts and parties.

Years ago, the Orange and Banana factions were the raw symbolic fruits of our political democracy. Last year, our segregation proved volatile.Currently, we are in a tomb of mass deceit. We have proved incapable of progressing, engendering, transforming and evolving from the dark past that were the post-election related challenges including violence, deaths and the aftermath; a grand coalition that had to be opportunistic for the sake of our national stability.

The real difference and disparity amongst Kenyan ethnic groups and Kenya as a nation is the mind that is unstable, motionless, tired, forgetful and unlearning. This obsessive listing of such selfish but essential differences remain utterly tribal, ethnic, divisive, partisan and fragmenting.

It is self deception to promote our tribal interests and sectarian identities in the guise of cultural diversity. This will only propagate and worsen the already re-established but delicate political fabric, stability and unity  fractured by our selfish ignorance.

It is time we acknowledged our limitations and owned up. Our political and tribal skepticisms won’t take us far.Let us break from the selfish bloodline, tribe, party and political prisons that are the outgrowth of our loose history. Time has come for us to refuse to marvel at ourselves when things go wrong but instead set the record straight.

Mundia Mundia Jnr.
Clinical Psychiatrist