I think the calls for people to state that they are simply 'Kenyan' are rather naive. When they enumerate tribe,it helps track a couple of things - rural-urban migration - and then in turn they can know whether to allocate resources for certain economic activities e.g. fishing,tea growing,diary farming,etc - lets face it,there are no giriama tea plantations and neither are there masai fishermen nor are there somali cotton growers - tribes have always been associated with certain economic activities - thus when we see that in the main urban (AND cosmopolitan) areas like Nairobi and Mombasa,there is a huge inflow from certain areas - then we know we are not putting enough money into fishing,pastoralism (veterinary services,boreholes,etc),farm inputs (coffee,tea,wheat growing areas,etc). So lets cut the bulls*** and state our tribes and forget those empty drums advocating for being simply 'Kenyan'. Question: How will it benefit politician X to know that there are 124,564 members of tribe Y in Mombasa? If they want to do them harm,how will they find all those people? Will they criss cross miritini,ganjoni,nyali,bamburi,etc until they find each one?
The problem with equality is that we desire that it be with those that have more than us rather that those that have less