Kamau Muiga, Author at African Arguments

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Kamau Muiga is a writer and part-time lecturer based in Nairobi, Kenya. His essay 'Bantu's Swahili, or How to Steal a Language From Africa' was nominated for the 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award. Follow him on twitter at @kamaumuiga.

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By Kamau Muiga
August 6, 2019
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Colonialists didn’t fail to root out Africa’s tribal politics. They created it.

In the West, rulers used notions of race to subjugate black people. In Africa, they used ethnicity. Standing in line at a Nairobi polling station to ...

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