The Audacity...

TO BE HUMAN

what do you think about the issues that Wandia Njoya is talking about?

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In the meantime, those of us with TV's tune in to Churchill every Thursday night to laugh at the jokes about stereotypes of the different Kenyan ethnic groups. No one seems to realize that during the elections, we used the same, same stereotypes, but at that time we were not laughing. We were serious. We killed Luos because they were flamboyant. We killed Kalenjins because they were violent. We killed Kambas because they were traitors. We killed Kisiis and Luhyas whom we thought should have known better than live in districts that are not their own. We killed Kikuyus because they are money-hungry thieves who stole an election. And Kikuyus retorted that everyone else but them was lazy and jealous because Kikuyus are supposedly the only Kenyans who work hard. And that "everyone else" - symbolized by the militia Group 41 - responded by hoping to rally a whole country to exterminate one ethnic group.

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We have believed the politicians who lie to us and blackmail us to believe that our only hope for survival is tribal cocoons. They have killed our hope to be completely human, to be more than a potential ballot on election day or a potential militia to protect their power and wealth. And once we no longer know that we are human, it doesn't matter whether we live or die. We can kill without a blink and not be moved by the blood we spill. And we expect to die by deluding ourselves that injustice is fate or God's will.

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