of tribes and who we are...

A young man told me once that he did not consider himself a Kikuyu, kamba, Luo or any tribe but a Kenyan. I got to thinking what a tragedy? What would happen to a person to deny who they are? This campaign of we are Kenyan I feel is misguided. A person cannot seize to be in order to exist in an alternative geo-politically defined state. We have our ethnic languages and culture that needs to be recognized! Parents, grandparents, ancestors..all these are people who make us who we are. Should all that history be wiped out and forgotten simply because a politician says so? We cannot be repainted to appear similar yet it is our diversity that makes us beautiful.!