Importantly, it also allowed the new heavily Gikuyu elite around Kenyatta, which behaved very much like its colonial predecessor, to take over the lands left behind by the departing British without breaking them up. It also meant that rather than build a cohesive and unified shared national or even continental identity, Kenyatta had to rapidly and urgently tribalise our politics.
Miongoni mwao ni bandari ya Bagamoyo, nyumbani kwa mtangulizi wake, Jakaya Kikwete. Wateule kwenye nafasi za utendaji na uwakilishi, ambao wengine walijipatia nafasi hizo miezi michache kabla ya Kikwete kuondoka madarakani, wamejikuta ama wakipoteza kabisa nafasi kwenye utawala wa Magufuli au wakipelekwa maeneo tafauti na waliyokuwa nayo. Na nchi lazima iende tu.