We Need a Different Kenya not this One
I recently argued that
members of the Kikuyu nation are major victims of the Kenyanised Agikuyu
nationalism. When Ndii argues that some locals in Rwaka during last election
were chanting "uthamaki wetu, thamaki yao!" and that majority of them
have sold all their land to fellow Kikuyu elite for real estate development and
speculation we must accept that there is a problem. Like that of Apollo 11, it
is a big problem, it can, it will bring down the spacecraft call Project Kenya.
The same young people chanting victory have no vision that is tied to Kenya,
their lot is to drink themselves to early graves but then they have been meant
to believe that uthamaki must be theirs and that they are much better having
one of their own as Muthamaki since anything else will be detrimental to them.
This falsehood is the basis upon which David Ndii's project Kenya rests.
But look at the talking
head called Mutahi Ngunyi. My devils led me to listening to him again on
Thursday on JKL. I better obey the Angel in me that always whispers to me that
Mutahi Ngunyi is a pedestrian scholar and Jubilee propagandist who sees nothing
beyond what he has to see. This is a man who goes to national TV and argues
that Raila never became president because he failed to stick with Kibaki and that
if he only stuck with Kibaki to the end Kibaki would have made him president he
then goes on to argue that Ruto can only become president if he sticks with
Uhuru; that if Ruto sticks with Uhuru then Uhuru will make him president. This
is consistent with Ngunyi's argument in an article sometimes last year that
Kikuyus determine who becomes president; and that whoever wants to be president
in Kenya must work with Kikuyus and that one cannot aggress Kikuyus and expect
to president. The same Ngunyi is famed of so called tyranny of the numbers
although as far as I know he is not the originator of the term. Simply Ngunyi
is spreading one ideology; that Kenya is Kikuyu or that Kikuyu is Kenya and
that all the other nations of Kenya must either be at the mercy of the Kikuyu
or go to hell. What happens then when the other nations will finally get tired
if not Ndii's hypothesis? Either divorce or burn. Painful.
But come on, we must rise
above the Ngunyis of this country if Project Kenya is to survive. We simply
cannot tie the history and fate of Kenya with the history and fate of one
Kenyan nation when, in fact, there are over 40 nations. Many Kikuyus are
refusing this ideology but the Agikuyu power brokers are craving their blood;
listen how they demonize David Ndii; it isn't new in the history of this
country, we know what Charles Njonjo went through by aiding or allowing a Moi
presidency. I love the emerging Kikuyu thinkers who have demonstrated that they
can think for themselves; they must be courageous enough to dismantle this ideology
that has held Kenya hostage for over half a century. It is not going to be
easy, just like any struggle for liberation, they will pay dearly but what
other options do we have? We must support efforts to get Kenya out of the
Agikuyu nationalism; it hurts Kenya and it hurts a peasant Kikuyu than it does
a Kisii because the ideology is held by and benefits only a few Kikuyu elites
We Need a Different Kenya not this One
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
on
April 11, 2016
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