Yet — as any Christian priest will tell you — God helps only those who, in the practical arena, seek to help themselves. Our brother Koigi wa Wamwere habitually reminds us of the other problem, namely, by calling it “negative tribalism”. Doesn’t “negative tribalism” imply the existence of its opposite, namely, “positive tribalism”? For, indeed, negative tribalism refers only to the habit by the leading classes in countries newly independent from European colonialism to favour only members of one’s tribal community whenever one is in a hire-and-fire position. One consequence of it is that it keeps a poor Third World country permanently in need to import certain extremely expensive skills and techniques from either Western Europe or North America.

Source: Daily Nation April 28, 2018 20:26 UTC