hamburglar wrote:
These mother tongue languages serve no purpose other than to divide Kenyans along tribal lines. I still insist that they should all be done away with for a more cohesive nation. We only need to stick with Kiswahili and English.
The reason why we have idiots as our leaders today is because of tribes. Were there no tribes, our leaders would be in big trouble because we would then have to vote for people based on things like honesty, susbstance and integrity.
I really hate it when someone addresses me in Kikuyu (my mother tongue) especially when am in the company of non-Kikuyu speaking people. It’s very very primitive. The stupid languages are more detrimental than they are productive. We should ban them all. Takataka tribes.
You're mixing up 2 things: tribe & language.
We were on language. Why didn't a single language save Rwanda from the genocide? Burundi? Somalia?
I strongly believe that while tribe can divide people, having people from different tribes speak one language and kill their mother tongues doesn't help a bit in cohesion. People who are tribal while speaking their mother tongue will be tribal when speaking one national language!!
Hate comes from "they're different from us", "they're inferior" not "they speak a funny language". Look at it, even within tribes people searching hard for differences between this and that Somali/Maasai clan, Kiambu Kikuyu vs Nyeri Kikuyu etc. Most of these stupidities are passed down through stereotypes. Speaking English & French won't change it a bit!
Maybe intermarriage would!