Kenya - The Democratic Self Devolves into Primal Warfare: Political Gangs Turn Elections into a Killing Field

Event Baseline: Hired gangs are violently disrupting political events across Kenya, escalating tensions and threatening large-scale conflict ahead of the 2027 elections.

Democracy, a fragile shared narrative, shatters when the self identifies with a tribe. The other becomes a mortal threat. Thought divides the nation into us and them, and then commands the hand to strike. This is the failure to see that all identity is a phantom; the Kenyan is not essentially different from his neighbor. Until this is seen, every election will be a war.