THE BALKANIZATION OF THE KENYAN STATE

I am engaged with much more social media news threads than I watch or listen to mainstream media in Kenya. I mean why listen to Maina Ki’nga’ng’i and Mwalimu Kageni sensationalize sex and sexuality for a living, or watch Kiss Tv cheer-lead for Raila or watch Citizen and K24 blow Uhuru’s trumpet. At times I am just as incensed listening to TV Citizen news anchors repeat media clichés from the last decade over and over again. Besides affiliations within Kenyan Media bar Nation Media have conspired to deny Kenyans objective and unbridled news and information. That’s why for a real time analysis of the ‘state of the nation’
I turn to social media. Twitter and Facebook are a microcosm of the neigh opinions of the Kenya state. Ok, enough bashing of Kenyan media, I have keen interests in media from African media and I have come to the conclusion that Kenya’s media is the second trashiest in the continent, ok no media can be trashier than Tanzania’s media. As I was saying I think our nation is on the brink of an epoch that will not be beautiful going forward. Kenya is balkanizing, and the politicians are to blame for this. They a full list of them all 212 Members of Parliament have worked zealously to ensure that Kenyan’s do not benefit from benefits accruing from a true sense of nationhood. A few marquee politicians; Raila the cog behind ODM, Uhuru the man of the anonymous party, Ruto of the URP stable and Kalonzo who named his party after an automobile accessory stand accused. Non of them stands on a pedestal non of them merits to have the responsibility of taking this nation forward. Uhuru and Ruto have United their ethnic battalions ready for battle, Kalonzo brings his small battalion into the fray, Wamalwa et-al add their small armies ready for Kenya’s Waterloo and Kenya’s waterloo is an ethnic conquest they are Raila who by the way usurps the powers of the ethnic joker card when he thinks it favours him or wails like against ethnicity when he thinks it works for him. Kenya therefore is balkanizing geographically, politically and emotionally. Small bands of Kenyans are seemingly more and more prone to pull away from Kenya’s established fabric. See Mombasa Republic Council, which by the way I think is shenaniganism of the highest order, mungiki seems to be making a comeback. All this are telltale signs that the state of the nation is not well. Let it be known though that I support the constitutional sanctioned right to association, that includes the GEMA, KAMATUSA crap, let us examine ourselves before we criticize because really this groups are carry-overs from the ethnic caucusing that permeates almost all facets of socio-political life in Universities. We need though to proffer solutions, we need to stop cheerleading for war, it is us whose blood will spill first. We need to deny our innocence to power-hungry make believe leaders, we need to force generational change in leadership and that can only happen if we stop clinging on to every word our archaic media industry peddles. We could we are young, we want more. “What ethnicity I am is of no consequence to me, what I am more concerned about is finding my locus in the global environment.” As a young man I would gain more from being globally competitive than I would, clinging to tentacles of an ethnic past.