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KENYAN CENSUS:I REFUSED, SET AND ANSWERED MY TRIBE QUESTION
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After reading many texts on tribe and negative ethnicity in Africa, I vehemently refused to tell the government sent enumerator ‘my tribe’. The enumerator, good looking Kenyan she asked at exactly 2146hrs on August 24, 2009;“ …….and what is your tribe?” My rehearsed reply was:’Am Kenyan, from Nyando”. She then gave a shy smile and exactly coded my tribe.

I know I am not mad as once claimed by Pr. Museveni (read “mad wajaluo in Migingo”,http://kenya.rcbowen.com/talk/viewtopic.php?id=112972),but the pronounced negative ethnicity drove to do so. I also know that such information as tribe/ethnicity and religion are very crucial in the advancement of social research and assessment of the social-cultural developments. But, the madness with which such information has been used drove me to say NO to the state agent.

This opinion has been shared by many Kenyans including Mutahi Ngunyi, who promised to boycott the exercise meant to count ‘dying hunger victims ’ (Sunday Nation, August 23, 2009), Njeri Kabeberi-Kanene (http://letasiasa.blogspot.com/2005/09/njeri-kabeberi-kanene-on-negative.html), Koigi among others. The British colonialists, in the 1960 version of the Britannica Encyclopedia describe the African communities as ‘primitive tribes’.

Conversely, it is a fact that such negative ethnicity are used by those in power to wedge rifts among peaceful people, thus culminating into animosities and eventual genocide. What of manipulations? Check the 1989 statistics.
Some ‘hostile people’ then had negative population growth (...in polygamy plagued Africa…my foot!), while others gave birth to triplets, a justification for inequitable development and skewed channeling of national resources.

If my tribe would to lead to all these and many more ‘mad Wajaluo’ tribal tendencies, let my tribe be tribe Kenya.

August 24, 2009 | 4:51 PM Comments  0 comments

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