From Kenya, a bit aged, very relevant to NZ elections 2023

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From Kenya and a bit aged but very relevant to NZ elections 2023

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H H writes > ALSO 2013, FROM KENYA:

"Whenever I meet people who...are celebrated ambassadors of tribal idiocy and who find solace in the smallness of such a cocoon, I realize that tribalism can never be killed by policies... If such can ever be achieved, it must be an individual odyssey, and from such pilgrimage we can find purpose in mutual coexistence.

"Debates...have been reduced to matters of tribes. How awful that we reduce and make of great discussions an absurd theater of small-time tribal thinking...

"For the record, I take no pride in tribe. I have gone to school, I am ordinarily well-groomed and I have food on my table for my stomach. None of these things have been given to me by the tribe.

"Of course, politicians are the greatest-ever known fertilizer of tribalism. They harp at the tribal strings every so often -- and during election -- merely for personal gain. Whenever they are caught in an antagonising intricate web of corruption, they claim that the law is after the tribe.

"Sadly, during campaigns, politicians, their strategists and political parties only look at Kenyans along the lines of tribal arithmetic. Looking back, even political leaders have taken no lessons from Kenya’s tragico-political miseries suffered by our body politic. It is not in dispute that the Post-Election Violence of 2008/09 was fueled and sustained by tribal yearnings.

"Successive government regimes have fed tribalism, to my chagrin. It is sad that 90% of presidential appointments are made on the strength of the tribe...

"The tribe has no soul, it never works hard and it has never paid my school fees, or bought me food, or fueled my car. The tribe serves no purpose other than the fact that it is a social construct that should serve to make people relate across culture, do common business and share a heritage.

"The tribe should not serve to set us apart, make us hate, or make us think we are superior and that others are lesser earthlings. If that is what it is supposed to serve, then I reject it as useless..."

--'Of Tribalism and the Poverty of Progressive Conscience among Kenyans',
Javas Bigambo, 'Governance, Human Rights and Development in Africa', Nov.23, 2013
bigambo.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/of-tribalism-and-the-poverty-of-progressive-conscience-among-kenyans/


Hector Heisler writes > "In their concept of masculinity, only power and force matter; if someone is humane and civil, this is considered a weakness. In clan structures, in tribal culture everywhere in the world, ethics are confined to the clan itself. Everything outside the clan is enemy territory."
— Ralph Ghadban, Lebanese-German political scientist and leading expert on Middle Eastern clans in Germany.
www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10543/germany-crime-gangs