“All of You have Lamented Unemployment, Corruption, and Tribalism. What are You doing about it?” President Mwai Kibaki asked at a National Youth Summit held at KICC where over 2000 Youth drawn all over Kenya were in attendance. This became the call for the young men and a lady who after this event, in 2013, started the Vijana Bila Ukabila Peace Initiative that would see them walk from Eldoret, all the way to Mombasa in 39 days this year. The long walk was to speak to the souls of the many who have either been victims or perpetrators of violence because of Tribalism. The statement, “Tuna kabila, lakini si ukabila”, meaning, we are from a tribe, but we are not tribal going to show that in spite of our diversity in tribes, which is inevitable, we do not discriminate against each other because of those tribes. Vijana Bila Ukabila Peace Initiative is a campaign for Peaceful Coexistence and National Cohesion regardless of Tribe, Religion, and Ethnicity. Their core mandate is to advocate fo...

The Empire Content Network  Did you also imagine that the power to be anything was outside of you? And that you were sort of helpless, and stuck in a dead-beat society, with everyone dragging everyone to some poverty. That makes the most of us. Until one day I heard, there comes a certain age, where any adult reaches and has stop blaming they parents for anything. Sited there at YALI, I would hear the most profound speech. About the potential of a human being, if only they would stretch themselves . That if he/she did, would astound themselves at how much they are capable of. That even they could be stars in a minute if they wished for it. THE POWER ONE. I would be awakened to my own power. That never again shall I allow anyone to call me Common Mwananchi.   There is nothing particularly common about self  . Kila mtu na mzigo wake. When the bible says, my people perish for lack of knowledge, it is true eh. Very powerful people, yo ung, resourceful, talen...