The Kikuyu Question

Some years back when my eldest son was born I went to the maternity hospital to see my wife and of course the bundle of joy. We had been trying for some time to get a second child and my wife had started getting very distressed because we only had a daughter and she desperately wanted a son. I love my daughter very much and I have no problem with girls. I am one of those people who greatly value daughters, just study families around and you will quickly realize that they are more of a blessing than sons in most cases. The only problem is getting them through adolescence (phew!! but that's a story for another day.) All in all girls are very responsible and will inherit the family fortune just like a boy and have been known to take care of things very well. My daughter has in fact inherited my business acumen. I love her to bits (you know what they say about daughters and their fathers).
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Also published today;

Why we are headed for a Kikuyu versus the rest political contest

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See my first comment nominations

Quip for the day; The really dangerous thing in Kenya today is that some tribalists don't even realize that they are tribalists. It has been planted too deep into their blood. Remember the first step on the road to recovery for an alcoholic?
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My wife never reads my blog because she says she hates politics so don't think I am writing anything here for her benefit. This is just me. I would have still been very happy and satisfied with one daughter or three daughters. My wife thought differently. She thought like many men I know who will do anything to get a son. Some even go to the extremes of openly discriminating against daughters. My wife of course loves our daughter but I could clearly tell where the pressure to have a son was coming from.

My message to you stone-age men out there who harass your wives because you don't have a son, is simple. Grow up!

Anyway, I digress.

Moments after I got to the maternity and had had barely the time to acquaint myself with the new arrival, my in-laws arrived. They crowded around the bed and the baby was roughly snatched from my hands as animated discussions in Kikuyu suffocated the place. In those days, being newly married to my Kikuyu beauty, I did not understand the language and so I floated.

I tried to ask my wife something but she ignored me to continue an animated discussion in Gikuyu with one of her cousins or aunts or whatever (have you noticed that all Kikuyus are related?)

I couldn't take it, I slipped out and nobody even noticed. I was young and head strong in those days and so I did something terrible. I never went back again to the hospital to see my wife. There were no cell phones in those days and so my wife frantically made calls all over the place. When it was time for her to be discharged from hospital, I finally went back and we made up. But that's how hurt I had been.

In retrospect I can say that I should not have been that angry. After all, in those early days I had not really understood the Kikuyu. That's just them, they dominate and are mostly insensitive to others, but they probably don't mean it, many of them are very caring people. In fact some of the most caring people I know are Kikuyus. For instance I owe my mother in-law a debt that money cannot pay.

I have taken the time to give you this background as my credentials for understanding the tribe in Kenya that holds the future of the country in their grasp.

There are certain characteristics amongst the Kikuyu that are not good, and must be addressed for the future of this country. Let me give a few examples of what I mean.

# Most Kikuyus have no problem calling Luos who read this blog abusive bad names (just read the comments which I have left as evidence). Deeply hurting abusive statements like "smelly foreskin" are common in this blog because of our open policy of being tolerant to all views (this thing about people not being circumcised is ancient and ridiculous because 70% of the men on this planet are NOT circumcised). Several times I have been called "Jaluo" although I do not belong to that tribe.

But the minute you start discussing the number of Kikuyu appointments in media organizations in Kenya (which I have irrefutably evidence from reliable sources is deliberate. Even certain appointments in influential private media has been influenced by State house) some of my dear readers who are Kikuyus get very touchy and irritated. And they start making statements like; "now this blog is starting to stink." Why was it not stinking when you were calling other Kenyans "smelly foreskin?" They also say things like "you started very well but now you have lost it, I am out of here." What they mean is that when I was allowing abuses against my dear Luo brothers, I was doing very well. But now that I want to discuss the Kikuyu, I have lost it. One wonders what would happen of somebody really got abusive against the Kikuyu of the "smelly foreskin" type.

Let me emphasize at this early juncture that there is a growing number of our Kikuyu brothers who are very different from the rest. Progressive minded and nationalistic Kenyans whom every Kenyan should be very proud of. Just read the comments in this site and you will be able to pick them out.

# Most Kikuyus will go out of their mind if Raila Odinga or any other Luo is elected President of Kenya. Even my wife believes that he is "not the right person." Some pretend that they would not mind James Orengo being president but that is a lie because they know he stands no chance. It is Raila who is the immediate threat.

You can say what you want to say but this blogger is NOT a supporter of Raila, although given a choice between the two devils, Raila and Kalonzo, I would not hesitate to pick Raila. My firm belief is that they should all go home (Raila included) and allow a brand new era in Kenyan politics. For heave's sake let's try something new and different.

I have also heard very many well-educated Kikuyu brothers of mine say that if Raila were to be elected president, the capital of Kenya would move to Kisumu. What evidence do they have that this will be so?

I have done some very intensive research over a long period of time (as those who have been with me in this blog for long will testify) and I am convinced that I have found the answer.

When Kenya's first president Mzee Jomo Kenyatta fell out with his Vice president Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and the Kenyatta inner circle also realized that people like Tom Mboya were a potential threat they knew that they had to act fast, if they were to stay in power and continue grabbing land and basically robbing the country blind.

Mboya stopped two bullets in the Nairobi streets in broad daylight and then the Kenyatta administration launched a major propaganda war against the Luo. That propaganda campaign was very effective and is probably the greatest damage that the Kenyatta administration did to the country. Today that propaganda flows as truth in the veins of Kikuyus and deep in their blood. And it shows. Just read the following comments left in this blog and make up your mind for yourself.

(I would like to nominate one of them for the worst comment from an ignmorant person given in bad taste… can you spot it?)


cliff said...
It is sickening to see educated poeple(coz you know how to use a computer) blaming tribalism for Kenyas woes. Just in case you forgot those 2 tribes have not been in power or in a position to influence government policies for the last 18 years. Kenyas real Our problem is short sitedness and illitracy.

Anonymous said...
Chris, Adolph Hitler also had a final solution to o you have one for the two problem tribes as you call them.....Stop showing your Myopia The trouble with democracy is that even Idiots like Chris have to be heard.
Kikuyu


just little me!!! said...
KIBAKI ABAKI!!!!


Anonymous said...
Kweli Kibaki Abaki na sisi tuendelee mbele.


Anonymous said...
Good job guys!You are all trying real hard to build virtual credibility for the Raila e-campaign on this blog. Anyone with a functional brain will see through your schemes.If it works, its just that-virtual. Chances are, the real voters know none of this is going on. Kenyans abroad DO NOT VOTE. There goes a real challenge kumekucha could take up.And become real famous, like he craves.


gj said...
This is the most myopic treatise that I have ever read. It tries to demystify the whole rubric of tribalism but ends up being very tribal. I went to school where there were Luos and Luhyas and Kikuyus and Giriamas and many other tribes including the Digo but we were brought up in an atmosphere of being Kenyans. I never thought of myself as a Luo. I ended up marrying a Maragoli and my best man was a Kikuyu! Tribalism only exists among the political class who are presently clamoring for leadership or trying, albeit unsuccessfully to retain power. This class hammers into the minds of the illiterate and uninformed vitriol of tribalism. This happens only in politics. It does not happen in NGOs or Churches or even Schools
just little me!!! said...

The perceived greed and over ambition for money power and property is the energy that drives this economy of ours. Those who feel it is not should go to Tanzania and see how people who have no ambition have 'laliad masikio'. Ambition is the gear wheel that propels economic growth-unless we want to live in a socialist state. Just because someone has exploited resources that were lying bare before you and you lacked the will or desire to use them you now label him a glutton or a thief!!! WACHENI WIVU!!!



Fortunately we have also had plenty of very brave comments like these ones;

Vee said...
I am a Kikuyu after being a Kenyan after being a human. YES! Truth be told we are a very tribalistic people. Our pattern of voting is a clear indication of that... can everyone stop pretending and taking offence about the suggestion that we are a problem to the whole national development and instead analyze it and find ways to sort stuff out...

Anonymous said...
I being a Kikuyu knows that most Kikuyus are a real problem in this country because of the overambition,gluttony for power,money and property.These attributes are vividly manifested in Kenyan politics, social life, economic and cultural lifestyles of the Kikuyus.

Anonymous said...
Luos are not the problem, it is the Kikuyu. Ask a Kalenjin and they will tell you it is the pride of the Kikuyu which is fanning Hatred. It is not even the killing of Tom Mboya alone, but the way resources were sharred after Independence which is fanning the Hatred.

The Kikuyus are using short cuts to achieve thier goals which is even worsening the situation. Look at the way Kibaki is using the Steadmann research (polls) to cheat Kenyan that he is popular, the way he wants to appoint Electrol commisioners, the way he is driving away the Maasai from Laikipia and very many other crazy things that we are seeing.

Kikuyu Short cuts are brooding something very bad which if nothing is done all the tribes of Kenya may avenge against them one day



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Why We Are Headed for A Kikuyus Versus The Rest Political Contest

It is quite clear that we are headed for a major political contest and the way the cards will fall is that we will end up with the Kikuyu and some of their close allies (GEMA) on one side versus the rest of Kenya.

Already if you carefully look at the storm that is brewing up within Narc-Kenya over holding grass-roots elections, this is exactly what is happening. The latest is that leading Narc-Kenya politicians like Dunston Mungatana and Kipruto Kirwa are now threatening to leave the party.

Let us address their bone of contention without fear and let us mention it bluntly. It is nothing but Kikuyu arrogance in the Narc-Kenya high command that is causing the whole problem. The Kikuyu like to dominate and they ofen behave as if the other communities do not matter.

By the way I told you folks very early that this experiment of forming coalitions long before elections will not work. That's the reason why we have trouble in ODM-Kenya and trouble in Narc-Kenya. Get ready folks, it will only get worse and uglier.

This big Kikuyu issue is also the reason why Paul Muite was called a traitor by Martha Karua. It is also the reason why Koigi Wamwere will probably lose his parliamentary seat this time unless Kenyans wake up to what is happening. These two brave nationalistic Kikuyu leaders dared to support the other side by siding with the minimum reforms group.

If Kenyans do not face this issue openly and discuss it, the future is predictable. If our Kikuyu brothers will continue to call this blog tribalistic the moment we bring up such issues, then there is no chance for Kenya.

While all other tribes in Kenya also tend to promote tribalism, it is our Kikuyu brothers who are in a position to jump-start change in Kenya and help us end tribalism and all the evil that comes with it. By virtue of their sheer numbers and political and economic might, the truth is that Kenya cannot ignore the Kikuyu, even as many of the Kikuyu continue to ignore the rest of Kenya, firmly believing that only Kikuyus will make the best leaders in this country and that they are the only community that can be trusted to occupy State House responsibly.

Try telling most Kikuyus that having produced two presidents already, they should step aside and cheer on the other tribes of Kenya.

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