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This paper examines the ethnicity as an issue prevailing upon the Kenyan society and its implication on
the social, economic and political dimensions in Kenya. Devolved ethnicity has been seen to be on the arise
since the county’s independence (1963) to date and therefore the distrust among communities is seen as an
impediment to the socio-economic and political developments in Kenya. Moreover, the issues that arise include
marginalization of minority ethnic communities towards accessing resources. Uneven distribution of national
resources has led to underdevelopment of regions in Kenya thereby bring about regional imbalance in terms of
distribution of national resources, which has negatively affected socio-economic development of the country.
Negative ethnicity brings about marginalization, distrust and heightens ethnic tensions and this eventually leads
to conflict, for example, the 1992, 1997 and the 2007/2008 post-election violence over the sharing and allocation
of power and national resources. This paper examines ways in which ethnic problems in Kenya have been
attributed to the social, economic and political perspectives and therefore provides the solution/medicine towards
negative ethnicity. | en_US |