Let Us Take a Long Term View

Following the Westgate tragedy, many Kenyans have been very excited about the prospect of a more united country. The "We are One" motto has so reverberated across the country, that anyone who suggests that we might not be one after all is considered to be a pathological enemy of unity and development. Yet we must all come to terms with the fact that even after the August 7 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Nairobi's City Centre and the death of more than two hundred people, there was a feeling of unity in the country; yet that sense of unity was not strong enough to avert the 2007/2008 near-civil war. Let us then enjoy our sense of unity, but strive to address the issues that really divide us.