TRIBALISM

I recently read an article by the US ambassador talking about the problems that were experienced in the US before they learnt how to live in harmony in comparison to our problems regarding tribalism . What i got from the article is that they recognized everyone , agreed they were different and decided to work towards being Americans without loosing/ignoring their very natural uniqueness. I could not agree more therefore i thought we revisit this post :.......



Allow me to share my thoughts on this topic which i think is wrongly used, understood and misused.

Tribe according to most dictionaries is :a social division of people, division of a society whose members have somethings in common like ancestry and beliefs in other words its one big family.



What am trying to drive at here is that its only natural that we are all tribalists and its okay, this is nothing out of our making just like being alive, let no one lie to themselves that they don't favour one of their own. You don't have to think about it it comes naturally the same way we love members of our immediate family more than our friends, ''charity begins at home'' i didn't make that up.



Most Kenyans will give alot of talk about how they were brought up in a cosmopolitan town and how they bearly speak their mother tongue ( this mostly is a lie and denial or simply narrow mindedness,) i have friends born and brought up in the US and are very good with their mother tongue and proud too.



This topic therefore needs to reviewed especially in Kenya, its not a crime to be born which ever tribe , we should be proud of our tribes first then Kenyans second not the other way round.



we will never be proud to be Kenyans if first, we don't cherish our roots after all being Kenyan is only plastic artificial made by the colonialists with their borders there was nothing called Kenya before that.



Our tribes have been there for thousands of years the white man came the other day and told us we are Kenyans and we should forget our tribes , we should know better by now.



Politicians use tribes to ascend to power and soon after winning they tell us to shun tribalism, this clearly shows that we can use tribalism positively. Lets understand our diversity and that way we can unite being well informed .



The white men will go into a lot of trouble to trace or to keep their family tree, some African Americans spare no coin to trace their origins their tribes, ''Oprah anybody ?''



Your tribe is like your species so to say, you cannot deny that, we do not exist in space nothing does even animals belong to their individual species and a lion will not stop being a lion simply because it was born in a zoo some where in central London ( for those of you who claim not to understand your tribe ).



Come on fellow Kenyans , open your damn half open eyes and see , our strength is in our diversity .

Aaaaaaaah nimechoka !!!! i feel frustrated, some one ? tell me i am wrong...... please!




For the record: Najivunia Kua Mkenya but only najivunia kuwa my tribe kwanza