Human rights should be at heart of our curricula

 

Stephen Mwansi, a teacher of grade four pupils of Moi education center, teaching his students during a science class lesson on October 13, 2020. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Developing countries in Africa and other parts of the world have for long experienced widespread abuse of human rights. In Kenya, the 1961 Lancaster House Constitution was mutilated to suit vested interests. This act manifested later in undemocratic aberrations such as centralisation of power, lack of public participation, gagging of the press, single-party dictatorship and flagrant abuse of human rights such as indiscriminate detention without trial, and incarceration of government critics.