Pray, why do Kenyan universities have such ugly websites?

A newly established university college’s website looks more like a Jubilee Party website, with rolling images of the President and his deputy

NAIROBI: A few days ago I decided to browse through Kenyan university websites. This was not the first time. As a doctoral student in Germany some years back, Kenyan university websites were, apart from word of mouth and random news reports, among the few channels I could use to catch up with what was happening back home. A year before completing my studies, I began searching for a job locally by regularly scanning through the various websites.

For all the universities I considered working for, I had to complement my job searches with regular phone calls to people on the ground. The reason was simple. The websites of most universities are pretty much unreliable insofar as accurate and efficient information is concerned. Ironically, this is at a time when most of our waking hours are spent in the digital space.