Conclusion

Abstract

The chapter concludes and synthesizes salient arguments and offers some recommendations. It argues for inclusive politics in Kenya to ensure stability. The sustained exploitation of tribalism by politicians and other influential Kenyans in the media, academe, civil society, religious fraternity could plunge the country into civil strife. Civic citizenship as opposed to ethnic nationalism must be the criterion for inclusion in the state and enjoyment of the attendant benefits. Unlike previously imagined by some modernisation theorists, ethnicity is not an anachronism, a prerogative of the ‘unsophisticated’ populace, but an integral part of modernity. This chapter also contests the notion that the Kenyan youth are detribalised in comparison to their elderly counterparts. Kenya’s viability as a state is predicated on Kenya’s renewal in consonance with ideals of the 2010 constitution, implementation of the recommendations contained in the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Report, and the Ndung’u Report on land injustices to address festering grievances by communities and individuals. The impediment to Kenya’s renewal, however, is a self-reproducing old order, in power since 1963 although the opposition parties are also diminished by predatory and tribal politics and so unlikely to devise alternative politics.