Scribbling at the museum
The eventful early months this year, got me thinking a lot about the history and state of the Kenyan nation. In moments of cynicism, and they have been a dime a dozen, I have even argued that a nation called Kenya has existed only in name and never in the shared ideals of its people. At one point, in my weekly online column at KenyaImagine, I wrote:
“Let there be Kenya,” said Queen Victoria. And there was Kenya.
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Never truer. I find I am questioning myself a lot too. While I think it unhelpful that we should seek to diminish the importance of the Kenyan state, I agree that coming as we do to that common ground from very different, often conflicting origins (whether ethnic or social class) it is important that the national conversation move towards a discovery of and empathy with other positions.
Great stuff.
emmo
June 20, 2008 at 9:54 am