On this Independence Day, the government comes to announce that the template of marginalization that European powers established cannot hold in a continent whose people are out of the hangover of the shortage colonialism intended as they fought for their interests. Kenyans celebrate Kenya’s 63 years of independence in Wajir, deliberately: to connect Kenya with what
independence means to the North, and awaken the country’s conscience to amazing facts about an area that holds the potential to
Kenya’s prosperity.
Without appreciating what a struggle it has been for the North to access true independence, critical infrastructure, and formal education as a door into the present and the future, Kenya loses. With the faithfulness of the Northern Star guiding the
orbit, Kenya’s citizens on the North suffered on behalf of the rest of Kenya and took the beating of a firstborn with courage even if its younger siblings will not know. It is time for the North to rest and dine with its brothers and sisters, over a meal it has laboured with love to produce.
No wonder the Kenya Kwanza government, aware of how deep the colonial script ran, started a systematic and systemic strategy to return the heart of the North to the Kenya it belongs to. The procedure to reclaim Northern Kenya must be as deep as what scattered it.
The government knows its task is not just to talk about independence because people want their power. Northern Kenya is a continuing article on decolonisation. Otherwise, it would continue being the prodigal son that comes home late to join its siblings on the table of government facilities and nation building