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KulaRaha
#1 Posted : Friday, June 09, 2017 9:38:07 AM
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As our useless muppets traverse the country making promises they will never keep and issuing cheques that will bounce, have they even considered what will happen to them if the kids come out to vote?

Will the kids vote by tribe? Are they loyal to the tribal ruler? Will 500 bob handouts sway them? Can they think beyond the day?

The UK has just seen team 18-24 come out and fix them...will it happen here?
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Lolest!
#2 Posted : Friday, June 09, 2017 9:52:49 AM
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KulaRaha wrote:
As our useless muppets traverse the country making promises they will never keep and issuing cheques that will bounce, have they even considered what will happen to them if the kids come out to vote?

Will the kids vote by tribe? Are they loyal to the tribal ruler? Will 500 bob handouts sway them? Can they think beyond the day?

The UK has just seen team 18-24 come out and fix them...will it happen here?

that constituency does not exist yet
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2012
#3 Posted : Friday, June 09, 2017 9:57:35 AM
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KulaRaha wrote:
As our useless muppets traverse the country making promises they will never keep and issuing cheques that will bounce, have they even considered what will happen to them if the kids come out to vote?

Will the kids vote by tribe? Are they loyal to the tribal ruler? Will 500 bob handouts sway them? Can they think beyond the day?

The UK has just seen team 18-24 come out and fix them...will it happen here?


That generation is already infected and the ones who are not don't care much about politics to vote. So maybe the next generation, 2027.

I realised after talking to some sane Nairobi youth in my neighbourhood that they see politics as a problem that cannot solve anything. Maybe they are right.
They can't even name 2 MPs and the only governors they know are Kidero, Joho and Kabogo, all for the wrong reasons. But they can give you a line-up of the musicians coming to perform in Kenya this year.

BBI will solve it :)
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KulaRaha
#4 Posted : Friday, June 09, 2017 10:02:13 AM
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I think we are all underestimating this phenomenon locally. Vast wealth inequality will spur these kids to fix things.

Watch this space.
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#5 Posted : Friday, June 09, 2017 10:09:50 AM
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KulaRaha wrote:
I think we are all underestimating this phenomenon locally. Vast wealth inequality will spur these kids to fix things.

Watch this space.


Assuming it happens, what real choices do they have at the ballot?
Only the forest has changed, the monkeys are the same.

BBI will solve it :)
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KulaRaha
#6 Posted : Friday, June 09, 2017 10:38:00 AM
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2012 wrote:
KulaRaha wrote:
I think we are all underestimating this phenomenon locally. Vast wealth inequality will spur these kids to fix things.

Watch this space.


Assuming it happens, what real choices do they have at the ballot?
Only the forest has changed, the monkeys are the same.


They can vote Dida.....d'oh!
Business opportunities are like buses,there's always another one coming
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KulaRaha
#7 Posted : Friday, June 09, 2017 10:41:29 AM
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See this, its happening everywhere, if Kenyan youth don't step up they will be left far far behind with rulers such as UK and RAO

http://www.wakeuptopolitics.com/
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FRM2011
#8 Posted : Friday, June 09, 2017 10:51:59 AM
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2012 wrote:
KulaRaha wrote:
As our useless muppets traverse the country making promises they will never keep and issuing cheques that will bounce, have they even considered what will happen to them if the kids come out to vote?

Will the kids vote by tribe? Are they loyal to the tribal ruler? Will 500 bob handouts sway them? Can they think beyond the day?

The UK has just seen team 18-24 come out and fix them...will it happen here?


That generation is already infected and the ones who are not don't care much about politics to vote. So maybe the next generation, 2027.

I realised after talking to some sane Nairobi youth in my neighbourhood that they see politics as a problem that cannot solve anything. Maybe they are right.
They can't even name 2 MPs and the only governors they know are Kidero, Joho and Kabogo, all for the wrong reasons. But they can give you a line-up of the musicians coming to perform in Kenya this year.


I agree with you 100%. In the villages, they are as tribal as the rest of us. In the cities(middle class), they don't care.
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#9 Posted : Friday, June 09, 2017 12:23:02 PM
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KulaRaha wrote:
See this, its happening everywhere, if Kenyan youth don't step up they will be left far far behind with rulers such as UK and RAO

http://www.wakeuptopolitics.com /


Maybe we should introduce a new subject in schools called 'politics'. After all it's one of the highest paying career and only requires papers, a hot mouth and no expertise or previous experience.

BBI will solve it :)
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Alba
#10 Posted : Sunday, June 11, 2017 4:14:46 AM
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I have found to my dismay that in Kenya, young people are in many cases more tribal then those between 30 and 50. I suspect it has something to do with coming of age at a time when tribal tensions are at their highest..

This is also the generation that has been brainwashed into thinking that you must vote for your tribe at all costs even if the leaders is a thief, a murderer or just plain incompetent.

Those who came of age during the first Nyayo era had no such considerations. So though they are also tribal, I tend to think they are less tribal.

The previous generation have actually experienced something close to national cohesion so they can envision such a society while the younger generation only knows tribal tension.
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