How inbreeding has turned our universities into mental prisons

Amigo read history at a public university in Nairobi. The experience was both absorbing and enriching. He found the faculty approachable and knowledgeable. Without much prompting, he enrolled for a Masters degree in the same department, a decision that exposed him to more intense and close interaction with his lecturers.

With time, he developed some working chemistry with one of his professors, a maverick and astute researcher. The professor would later supervise his master’s thesis at the department where a year earlier he completed his undergraduate.