Managing Diversity: Mount Kenya’s New Strategy For Unity

The Building Bridges to Unity Initiative (BBI) has produced a blueprint that shifts the axis of politics from a short-term view to a long view; not only in the ‘GEMA’ region, but the entire country at large. It is in this context that Mt Kenya’s new strategy is the twin ideas of the management of diversity and a rule-based, just and inclusive society to underpin sustainable development

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• 21 Mar, 2024

Certainly, after the August 9, 2022 the Mount Kenya region has produced three of the four Kenyan presidents since independence in 1963 will not be at the helm of power.

him. But the Kenyatta-Odinga peace deal changed all this. In the ensuing jostling for power, the region’s elite was divided between the “Tangatanga” squad aligned to Mr. Ruto in the jostling for Kenyatta succession and their Kieleweke critics. It is in this context that on November 3, 2019, this column warned that: “Without a clear strategy, Mt Kenya’s political future is bleak” (SN 3/11/2019). But the leaders’ caucus from Mt Kenya region that President Uhuru Kenyatta convened at the Sagana State Lodge in Nyeri on November 15, 2019 is beginning to bear visible fruits. An intense political process around the Building Bridges to Unity Initiative (BBI) has produced a blueprint that shifts the axis of politics from the short-term view of the politics of Kenyatta succession to a long view of the region and the Kenyan nation beyond 2022.