As we reflect on the journey left by the past, we must also look hard into the future and ask ourselves, what should we do to prepare for a better future? A country is as good as the institutions it erects and the leadership it bequeaths itself. Ethnic elites from smaller tribes allowed themselves to 'buy' the fear-peddling that the majority tribes would dominate them and even extinguish them. Leaders then mustered how to fuel ethnic nationalism as a ticket to the hallowed office of the people’s representative. Of greater interest is that ethnic elite alliances don’t last more than one electoral term.

Source: Standard Digital December 10, 2023 15:33 UTC