Simmering Coast nationalism hijacked by politicians

The arrest of three men in Kwale, for links with the Republican Council of Mombasa, demonstrates that the fire of Coast nationalism simmers amidst the humid flatlands and beaches of the Indian ocean. However, Coast nationalism has numerously been hijacked by politicians causing even greater frustration for a people who feel at the periphery of Kenya’s social and economic development. Local police say the three men, all from the Mijikenda tribe indigenous to the Coast, were inciting youth in K

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