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.
Waliberali wa Kizanzibari wa Muungano – kama tulivyo mimi na Ally Saleh – ambao kila siku tuliamini kuwa njia ya kati na kati inawezekana kupitika kuelekea Muungano ’mzuri zaidi’ kati ya Tanganyika na Zanzibar, tumeambiwa na Rasimu ya Vijisenti kwamba hilo halipo wala haliwezekani kabisa. Tumekhiyarishwa baina ya kuisalimisha kabisa heshima ya nchi yetu au kuukataa kabisa Muungano na Tanganyika.