My Thoughts

      There are contested conceptualizations of a state and a nation. Scholarly however, they are very different. The state possesses its basic attributes, most important to this article being a legitimate government. Nations on the contrary, are groupings that have an identical history, traditions, linguistic features and ideological prospects. Nations can therefore go beyond states and in certain circumstances a nation could be a state for example Japan. World over, there is a mounting problem to states from the nations. Secessions have become a trend and particular nations want to rise to states. Clamour for political power is basically the end goal. On the contrary, some states are setting the foundations for the strong features of a nation by appealing to shared values. The Catalans want to leave Spain, The Kurds are reading from the script of independence and this tone has found its way in Kenya. States still face a survival battle from the globalization pheno