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Culture is not merely what we preserve; it is how we live. Every society operates within a cultural framework.
This, I must say today. The ministries responsible for culture across the forty-seven counties and at the national level have not fully understood their mandate. Abolish them if they do not shape up. I made this observation last weekend when I returned to my county of birth, Vihiga, as a guest speaker at the midterm review of the County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP).
As I reflected on the progress of devolution and the direction our counties are taking, I was struck by a deeper concern that goes beyond infrastructure, budgets and planning frameworks. It is the question of culture.
I am increasingly convinced that we are draining the public purse for a function whose mandate has been misunderstood. I say this not because culture is unimportant. No. But precisely because we have reduced it to something far smaller than it truly is.
