Kenya politicians continue using ethnicity to divide and rule – 60 years after independence
Kenyan politicians and military officers walking together after making a visit at Armed Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya on January 22, 2016. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG
Since independence in 1963, Kenya’s politicians have fed and manipulated ethnicity to win elections.
With some 40-odd ethnic groups, Kenya is a country of ethnic minorities – it has no single dominant community. During elections, political parties and candidates do raise policy issues, but ethnicity, or tribalism as it’s popularly called in Kenya, is the default vote-hunting strategy.
