Early this year, the Cybermetric Lab from the Spanish national research council, released the most prominent ranking of world universities involving over 28,000 institutions. Most Kenyan universities, I guess, must have avoided checking their global positioning—no one can brave a rank that looks like a barcode. On February 7, 2020, The Standard wrote an editorial in which it challenged our universities to rethink their global positioning. This is an overdue conversation.