This Is Sad! Kikuyus Trending On Twitter And The Tweets Will Break Your Heart!

This is truly sad. I always thought tribalism was a thing with our parents and the generation just after them… The so-called generation Y – the guys who are 35years old now. But what I am seeing tells me I am either naive or just daft. A little of both perhaps

I went on twitter today, something I must admit I rarely do anymore – no really, Twitter is dying. Anyway, when I got on, I saw a trending topic called #Kikuyus. I shuddered. Perhaps I am jaded but from my experience, nothing positive comes of these tribal hashtags.

And when I checked out, my instincts were vindicated. There was little in the way of positivity. Everything was vitriolic diatribe and, to be honest, I am scared. I am scared for two reasons:

1. Kenyan youth are clearly tired of the leadership in place and the voices of anger are growing by the day.
2. Kenyan youth are misdirecting their anger. We are personifying our faceless enemies in the form of a tribe.

We cannot make an ethnicity our enemy. We cannot make an ethnic community a target for our anger. Check out what the tweets were saying:

am so special my president is kikuyu just like me #kikuyus

— Riddiq weed smoker (@riddiq_lone) March 29, 2016

Really?? Kikuyus like anne waiguru’ Ben gethi ‘ kabura stealing nys billions. https://t.co/5V2NVYgn1p — george rai. (@raioptima) March 29, 2016

Kikuyus have refused to open up and talk about #StageManagedTerrorAttacks to fight @IntlCrimCourt. Kikuyus have BURIED their heads in SAND

— SIMBA WA NYIKA™ (@SimbaNyika) March 29, 2016

Then this glimmer of hope:

I can’t and wont hate kikuyus just because of dirty politics — lewis (@ThatGuy_lewis) March 29, 2016

And it was back to our regularly scheduled programming:

RT “@BeasunshineA: When Kikuyus say Jaramogi wanted to rule for one minute, this is what i’ll remind them. http://pic.twitter.com/1wCnQ5IiJ0“

— Fulani (@ThePasscode) March 29, 2016

In this country we’re servant of #Kikuyus but one day it will change let’s just cross our hands waiting that day. #KOT @kabetes — Born In Nyakach (@OkechOliver) March 29, 2016

We attained independence in 1963 only 2be colonized yet again by the devide and rule policyBYpoliticians across the political devide.Kikuyus

— Sialo Sururu (@SialoSururu) March 29, 2016

If we call it quit and divorse as in Ndii’s opinion, then it is the Kikuyus who will suffer the most. — .. (@EdOcholla) March 29, 2016

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