Kenyatta and Odinga: The Harbingers of Ethnic Nationalism in Kenya
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The paper traces the political problems that Kenya currently faces particularly the country s inability to construct a united national consciousness historical relationships that unfolded between the country s foremost founders Jomo Kenyatta and Oginga Odinga and the consequences of their political differences and subsequent-fallout in the 1960s The fall-out saw Kenyatta increasingly consolidating power around himself and a group of loyalists from the Kikuyu community while Odinga who was conceptualized as the symbolic representative of the Luo community was confined to the wilderness of politics This paper while applying the primordial and essentialist conceptual framework recognizes the determinant role that the two leaders played in establishing the foundations for post-independent Kenya This is especially true with respect to the negative consequences that their differing perspectives on Kenyan politics bequeathed the country especially where the evolution of negative ethnicity is concerned As a result of their discordant political voices in the political arena there were cases of corruption the killing of innocent Kenyans in Kisumu in 1969 political assassinations of T J Mboya Pio Gama Pinto and J M Kariuki among others as this paper argues
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