 Accordingly, the editors of Mau Mau and Nationhood go on to write, No nation is born without having to face up to questions about who is included, whom is excluded, about how equal the rights of citizenship can be in practice, what degree of privileged differentiation is tolerable between regions, languages, and personal status, what in any conflict of rights it means to be subject to more than one rule of law, local and customary, national and statutory.