Editing Multinational state (section)

==== Kenya ====
{{further|Ethnic groups in Kenya}}

[[Kenya]] is home to more than 70 ethnic groups; the most populous of which are the [[Kikuyu people|Kikuyu]], at about 20 percent of the population.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/kethnic.htm|title=East Africa Living Encyclopedia|website=www.africa.upenn.edu|access-date=2017-01-05}}</ref> Together, the five largest groups—the Kikuyu, [[Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania|Luo]], [[Luhya people|Luhya]], [[Kamba people|Kamba]], and [[Kalenjin people|Kalenjin]]—account for 70 percent of Kenyans.<ref name=":0" /> The major impediment to nation-building in Kenya is the schism caused by the failure to align the mystically bonded ethnic groups to the state so that the state territory can simultaneously be the national territory and vice versa [https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3TWRGEUCHBGIJED5AJJU/full?target=10.1080/14725843.2024.2439423#abstract (Katiambo, 2024, p.6)]. According to [https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3TWRGEUCHBGIJED5AJJU/full?target=10.1080/14725843.2024.2439423#abstract Katiambo (2024]) although the hegemony of the nation-state should ideally lead to each state having one nation,  regardless of Kenya’s deliberate nation-building efforts aimed at reversing the fragmented ethnic nations of the colonial epoch, the nation-state is still in competition with ethnic sub-nationalism.