By TEE NGUGIThe language of our political discourse has become infantile, dominated by references to ‘nusu mkate’ and ‘full mkate’ government. The most potent accusation by Jubilee is that all the Nasa protestations and manoeuvring are really aimed at forcing a ‘nusu mkate’ government. There is a subtext to the ‘mkate’ debate that makes it so inflammable — tribalism. But tribe, like race, as Kwame Anthony Appiah educates us in his book In My Father’s House, is a social construct. The media fails to deconstruct the Nusu ‘mkate’ debate within the context of our objective national economic and political needs.

Source: Daily Nation November 18, 2017 09:33 UTC