Githongo on the Unenviable Narrative of the Luo in Kenya's Political Landscape

The narrative of the Luo -- in, let's be precise, Kenya -- is as 'tragic' as Githongo sees it, but only in the last 48 years or so. Forty eight years isn't a long time in historical terms or in the life of a nation, but only in the lives of individual citizens. Broaden the geopolitical map to include Uganda and more westerly African (I don't want to add America here, because that makes some people not just see but feel red) countries, and the "unenviable fate of the Luo" narrative changes dramatically, sucking in the Kenyatta family -- but not in a way at all familiar to Kenya's Central Province, let alone Kenya as a whole. "Not yet". I'm not even sure that Githongo himself, as widely read as he obviously is, or even President UK (who has in the last week or so stirred Kenyan hearts and minds with his 'adoption' of @DanielOwira) is aware of the dramatic twist with any particular presence of mind. Here's an inkling of the larger story, which hasn't yet gone viral.