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Shirikisho Party of Kenya, P.O. Box 84648-GPO 80100 Mombasa Office, Githere Plaza, first floor Haile-Selassie Avenue.

Culture and Diversity

The problem
Kenya is blessed with diverse cultures that have given us our identity and contributed to our national heritage and strong moral values as a result our culture has attracted foreign exchange through tourism. However negative cultural practices have caused many problems to the Kenyan society.

 

Bad cultural practices have been the cause for inequalities and exploitation in many Kenyan societies for instance the problem of participation of women, youth and people with disabilities in leadership and decision making, inheritance and property ownership  for women, Girl child education.

 

In some cultures women are exploited as they are made to work and surrender their proceeds to their husbands and forced early marriages. Some cultures have contributed to underdevelopment in their areas they discourage participation in leadership and development initiatives.

 

Other cultures contribute to lack of access to quality education like in the nomadic and pastoralist life styles, yet others have contributed to conflicts and violence for instance bad inheritance values against women and bad culture beliefs such cattle rustling mostly pastoralist communities.

 

Other cultural practices have led to the degradation of the environment and annihilation wildlife for example burning of forest for the purposes of farming and killing of wild animals for initiation to higher status in community.

 

Finally, some cultures have contributed to immorality and spread of diseases like wife inheritance and female genital mutilation.

 

Policy Vision
Shirikisho envision a nation that promotes, protects and safeguards the positive cultural values in society and discard the negative cultural practices in order to preserve our unique ecological balance as a nation.

 

Action.
Shirikisho will:

1. Enact the legislation that protect, strengthen and promote the positive cultural believes and practices to achieve unity in diversity and to maintain our ecological balance.

2. Document and disseminate positive cultural practices in order to preserve them as part of our national heritage.

3. Create awareness against negative cultural practices and habits both local and foreign in order to protect our cherished cultural values.

4. Introduce a national cultural day where a nation will celebrate its diverse cultural heritage.