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Why Prof Wainaina's story matters to KU and the nation

The story of Prof Paul Wainaina highlights the challenges faced by outspoken voices in Kenyan society and underscores its significance for both Kenya University and the nation.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

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When reading fails: A crisis in schools that we can't ignore

Half of Grade Six learners cannot read and comprehend a Grade Three English storybook. This should alarm and indeed shock everyone in the education sector.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

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What you need to know about CBC pathways

Under CBC, Senior School is not a narrow corridor but a wide, well-lit highway of possibilities. Learning at this level is organised into pathways.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

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Let us develop the country's potential for literary tourism

In the United Kingdom, literary tourism is not limited to long-dead canonical writers; it also honours contemporary and diasporic voices.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

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Change knocks when the old self becomes utterly unbearable

Change comes when the old self becomes unbearable. The nation needs a Damascus moment. President Ruto has started the conversation, and that, in itself, is a form of hope.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago

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Why modern medicine must relearn art of patient stories

Modern medicine has lost this art of listening. The hospital, with its machines, forms, and impatient queues, has replaced the listening ear with a checklist.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 4 months ago

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KCSE Literature questions no one dares to ask, but should

In last week’s installment, I argued that our teaching of literature at all levels of education is wanting.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

Why our teaching of literature must go beyond criticism

Literature indeed loses its vitality when it is reduced to theory alone. When we confine it to critical analysis, we strip it of the very life it seeks to illuminate.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

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Letters of Betrayal: How TSC lost its narrative

A good story lifts and motivates, while a broken story diminishes, demoralises, and erodes trust. The way an institution tells its story shapes how society perceives it.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

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Why Prof Wainaina's story matters to KU and the nation

The story of Prof Paul Wainaina highlights the challenges faced by outspoken voices in Kenyan society and underscores its significance for both Kenya University and the nation.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

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When reading fails: A crisis in schools that we can't ignore

Half of Grade Six learners cannot read and comprehend a Grade Three English storybook. This should alarm and indeed shock everyone in the education sector.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

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What you need to know about CBC pathways

Under CBC, Senior School is not a narrow corridor but a wide, well-lit highway of possibilities. Learning at this level is organised into pathways.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

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Let us develop the country's potential for literary tourism

In the United Kingdom, literary tourism is not limited to long-dead canonical writers; it also honours contemporary and diasporic voices.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

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Change knocks when the old self becomes utterly unbearable

Change comes when the old self becomes unbearable. The nation needs a Damascus moment. President Ruto has started the conversation, and that, in itself, is a form of hope.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago

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Why modern medicine must relearn art of patient stories

Modern medicine has lost this art of listening. The hospital, with its machines, forms, and impatient queues, has replaced the listening ear with a checklist.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 4 months ago

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KCSE Literature questions no one dares to ask, but should

In last week’s installment, I argued that our teaching of literature at all levels of education is wanting.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

Why our teaching of literature must go beyond criticism

Literature indeed loses its vitality when it is reduced to theory alone. When we confine it to critical analysis, we strip it of the very life it seeks to illuminate.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

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Letters of Betrayal: How TSC lost its narrative

A good story lifts and motivates, while a broken story diminishes, demoralises, and erodes trust. The way an institution tells its story shapes how society perceives it.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

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Why Prof Wainaina's story matters to KU and the nation

The story of Prof Paul Wainaina highlights the challenges faced by outspoken voices in Kenyan society and underscores its significance for both Kenya University and the nation.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

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When reading fails: A crisis in schools that we can't ignore

Half of Grade Six learners cannot read and comprehend a Grade Three English storybook. This should alarm and indeed shock everyone in the education sector.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 1 month ago

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What you need to know about CBC pathways

Under CBC, Senior School is not a narrow corridor but a wide, well-lit highway of possibilities. Learning at this level is organised into pathways.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

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Let us develop the country's potential for literary tourism

In the United Kingdom, literary tourism is not limited to long-dead canonical writers; it also honours contemporary and diasporic voices.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 2 months ago

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Change knocks when the old self becomes utterly unbearable

Change comes when the old self becomes unbearable. The nation needs a Damascus moment. President Ruto has started the conversation, and that, in itself, is a form of hope.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 3 months ago

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Why modern medicine must relearn art of patient stories

Modern medicine has lost this art of listening. The hospital, with its machines, forms, and impatient queues, has replaced the listening ear with a checklist.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 4 months ago

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KCSE Literature questions no one dares to ask, but should

In last week’s installment, I argued that our teaching of literature at all levels of education is wanting.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

Why our teaching of literature must go beyond criticism

Literature indeed loses its vitality when it is reduced to theory alone. When we confine it to critical analysis, we strip it of the very life it seeks to illuminate.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

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Letters of Betrayal: How TSC lost its narrative

A good story lifts and motivates, while a broken story diminishes, demoralises, and erodes trust. The way an institution tells its story shapes how society perceives it.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

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KCSE Literature questions no one dares to ask, but should

In last week's installment, I argued that our teaching of literature at all levels of education is wanting.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

Why our teaching of literature must go beyond criticism

Literature indeed loses its vitality when it is reduced to theory alone. When we confine it to critical analysis, we strip it of the very life it seeks to illuminate.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

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Letters of Betrayal: How TSC lost its narrative

A good story lifts and motivates, while a broken story diminishes, demoralises, and erodes trust. The way an institution tells its story shapes how society perceives it.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 5 months ago

Don't just focus on STEM, content production is the real goldmine

For the past year, I have been deeply involved in the development of Competency-Based Education (CBE) materials for a new learning area: Theatre and Film Studies.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 7 months ago

Memoirs: You owe your story to those who come after you

My friend Lee Njiru's memoir, The Presidents' Pressman, is perhaps the best window through which you can understand the institution of the presidency in Kenya.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 7 months ago

Want students to learn language? Revive the lost art of letter writing

I was recently shocked to learn that a friend's daughter had been beaten black and blue by her teachers in a secondary school for being found in possession of a love letter to a boyfriend!

By Prof Egara Kabaji 7 months ago

Doing badly moneywise? Blame education and taxation systems

One of the wisest decisions I made in recent years was to go back to school and earn a Master's degree in Business Administration (Strategic Management option).

By Prof Egara Kabaji 8 months ago

Only a well thought out plan will bring out the best in our creatives

What is ailing the creative industry in Kenya? This is the question I had to confront last weekend while facilitating a writers' training.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 9 months ago

Why we must take the creative industry seriously

We need to stop treating artists as afterthoughts. We must invest in theatres, studios, performance spaces, and creative hubs in every sub-location and county.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 9 months ago

In this revolution don't experience Rip Van Winkle moment

One of the most enduring stories I read as a youngster, which has remained etched in my mind, is Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving.

By Prof Egara Kabaji 9 months ago

Ngugi: The man who planted stories in our souls

Why is Kenya, a small country, so well known across the globe? Is it because of our world-class runners who dominate marathons and bring gold home?

By Prof Egara Kabaji 10 months ago

Why China loans have no impact on economy

China’s opaque contracts, rapacious loan agreements and sheer disregard for native labor laws reached a crescendo in 2005 when an explosion in a Chinese explosi

By Prof Egara Kabaji 7 years ago