Indeed, our prosperity as a country and as a continent demands that we transcend our national identity in favour of a regional one. How do you create a collective conscious from which you can derive a common identity, pursue a common goal and achieve a common destiny? There will never be a Kenyan identity, Kenyan culture, Kenyan nationhood, as long as ethnic identities, cultures, languages, beliefs and norms remain intact. We must abandon ethnic languages for a national language, ethnic values for national values, ethnic histories for a national history, ethnic traditions for national traditions, ethnic stories, myths and beliefs for national ones. Imagine if every school in Kenya raised the East African flag alongside the Kenyan flag, learnt East African history alongside Kenyan history, and sang the East African anthem in tandem with the Kenyan one.

Source: Standard Digital November 15, 2017 21:00 UTC