Coalitions should be based on ideologies

President Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Divided House’ would have been better to live in than emerging political houses that make up Kenya’s political coalitions. At least Lincoln’s had two ‘rooms’ with ideological divides as distinct as day and night. The division between those who supported slavery and those who opposed it in 1860s in the United States of America may have sparked off a costly civil war, but at least the clarity of the issues transformed the violent conflict into a valuable foundation for a shared consciousness...