Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Kenya

Is Kenya another example of multi-culturalism not working!?!

"Most of the victims were members of the same Kikuyu ethnic group as the newly re-elected President Mwai Kibaki."

"Eldoret, in the Rift Valley, has witnessed some of the worst violence since Sunday's controversial poll and has a history of inter-ethnic tension."

2 comments:

Jeremy Jacobs said...

No. I think tribal rivalry goes back centuries.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Unfortunately, democracy doesn't and can't work in religious or tribal countries. A secular state with a reasonably homogeneous population is required first.