As @RasnaWarah says here, the 2013 election was an election of fear. And I would add that this fear is not accidental. Politicians kill us during elections, with help from the US and UK, pricisely so that we can always be afraid.
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Our politicians are a lynch mob. They organize for our bodies to be mutilated so that we face our cultures and our politics with fear and dread, and get blackmailed to support #BBIReport.
Kenyan politicians are terrorists.
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Tekayo and the US knew they would rig the 2017 elections and knew people would die. They even sent body bags in advance. That's the level of cynicism around our elections. The politicians and their sponsors prepare to kill us and blackmail us to accept what they want.
Tekayo also used the trauma of kumirans to market himself as their savior in 2013. So kumirans voted for him not out of a belief in him but the false hope (SMH) that he would keep the pandoras box closed. But it wasn't closed. He was using it to campaign.
And this is the story for all ethnic groups. Politicians present them with traumas suffered at the hands of the state. Instead of fighting for justice, they tell their ethnic groups to vote for them because they were traumatized.
We can't keep going to the ballot like this.
We have to find a way to end this cannibalism of the Kenyan colonial state. The artists have the tools to make Kenyans understand this cannibalist culture. Crunching more numbers, doing "political analysis" and obsessing with alliances doesn't work.
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