Tom Olang’

I recently read and was intrigued by a Facebook post of a colleague who had just graduated from a one of the prestigious universities in the UK. Even after successfully completing what anyone would consider a no mean feat at such an institution, her feelings struck me as odd.

In the late 1980s when Kenya was still a de jure one-party state, a powerful cabinet minister is on record to have publicly declared, ‘All the Igbos must lie low like an envelope or suffer for their intransigence.” He was contemptuously referring to members of an economically dominant ethnic comm